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Patti Smith Group portraitPatti Smith Group

Charting Apr 8, 1978Sep 1, 1979 · 21 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 21 wk, UK Singles Chart 16 wk

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Peak Power
1.30%
week of Jul 8, 1978
Career Power
21
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
20
August 1977 – August 1978
Peak Five Years
21
September 1974 – September 1979
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
21
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.34%
week of Jun 24, 1978
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

2 records · 21 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
Because The Night#131820.5
Frederick#9030.5

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At their peak

1977 in music

Patti Smith Group's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from August 1977 to August 1978. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Bee Gees163
  2. 2Andy Gibb141
  3. 3Heatwave93
  4. 4Barry Manilow78
  5. 5Shaun Cassidy77
  6. 6Linda Ronstadt73
  7. 7Player73
  8. 8Electric Light Orchestra72
  9. 9Rita Coolidge71
  10. 10Commodores70

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.