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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

O.C. Smith

Charting Feb 24, 1968Nov 9, 1974 · 83 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 83 wk, UK Singles Chart 23 wk

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Peak Power
2.12%
week of Nov 23, 1968
Career Power
66
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
48
March 1968 – March 1969
Peak Five Years
64
December 1966 – December 1971
Top-five weeks
6
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
83
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.43%
week of Oct 26, 1968
Comebacks
0
none detected

Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the chart's own positions. How it works →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Songs on the Billboard Hot 100

10 records · 66 share-weeks of Career Power

Power contributed is what each song earned this artist: their weekly Power Share, split across their songs (a featured credit takes its reduced share). Record Power is the song's own figure, the same for every artist on it. Bar length compares songs within this list.

SongPeakWeeksPower
Little Green Apples#21734.8
The Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp#40149.6
Daddy's Little Man#3475.6
Friend, Lover, Woman, Wife#4794.5
Baby, I Need Your Loving#52103.5
Honey (I Miss You)#4463.2
Isn't It Lonely Together#6362.0
La La Peace Song#6272.0
Help Me Make It Through The Night#9140.6
Primrose Lane#8630.5

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At their peak

1968 in music

O.C. Smith's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from March 1968 to March 1969. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Aretha Franklin111
  2. 2The Beatles97
  3. 3Diana Ross & The Supremes83
  4. 4The Young Rascals79
  5. 5Marvin Gaye78
  6. 6Tommy James And The Shondells73
  7. 7The Temptations73
  8. 8Archie Bell & The Drells68
  9. 9The Doors66
  10. 10Steppenwolf64

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s.