Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Ohio Players

Charting Dec 25, 1971 → Oct 8, 1977 · 155 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 155 wk (2 crowns), UK Singles Chart 4 wk

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Image credits

Photo: Mercury Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
2 crowns
19711977
First crown Feb 1975

Billboard Hot 100 · 155 wk UK Singles Chart · 4 wk Global Music Power · 155 wk

Peak Power: 2.45%; week of Feb 14, 1976
Career Power: 164; share-weeks
Crowns: 2; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 71; October 1975 – October 1976
Peak Five Years: 162; October 1972 – October 1977
Top-five weeks: 10; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 155; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.52%; week of Feb 8, 1975
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

14 records · 164 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.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
Love RollercoasterApple Music	#1January 1976	16	November 1975 – February 1976	39.3	39.2
FireApple Music	#1February 1975	17	December 1974 – April 1975	28.9	28.8
Who'd She Coo?Apple Music	#18September 1976	17	June 1976 – October 1976	19.2	19.1
Funky WormApple Music	#15May 1973	19	February 1973 – June 1973	18.6	18.6
Skin TightApple Music	#13October 1974	11	September 1974 – November 1974	14.6	14.6
EcstasyApple Music	#31November 1973	15	August 1973 – November 1973	11.6	11.5
FoppApple Music	#30April 1976	11	February 1976 – May 1976	8.1	8.2
Sweet Sticky ThingApple Music	#33October 1975	8	September 1975 – November 1975	6.5	6.5
Jive Turkey (Part 1)Apple Music	#47July 1974	11	June 1974 – August 1974	4.8	4.8
O-H-I-OApple Music	#45August 1977	12	July 1977 – October 1977	4.8	4.7
I Want To Be FreeApple Music	#44May 1975	7	April 1975 – May 1975	3.9	3.9
Pain (Part I)Apple Music	#64February 1972	8	December 1971 – February 1972	2.0	2.0
Feel The Beat (Everybody Disco)Apple Music	#61February 1977	5	January 1977 – February 1977	1.5	1.5
Rattlesnake	#90March 1976	4	February 1976 – March 1976	0.3	0.6

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At their peak

1975 in music →

Ohio Players's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from October 1975 to October 1976. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.