Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Percy Sledge

Charting Apr 9, 1966 → Dec 21, 1974 · 96 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 96 wk (2 crowns), UK Singles Chart 29 wk

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Image credits

Photo: Gene Pugh, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
2 crowns
19661987
Longest reign 2 weeks (May–Jun 1966) · First crown May 1966

Billboard Hot 100 · 96 wk UK Singles Chart · 29 wk Global Music Power · 108 wk

Peak Power: 1.91%; week of Jun 25, 1966
Career Power: 89; share-weeks
Crowns: 2; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 51; April 1966 – April 1967
Peak Five Years: 87; May 1964 – May 1969
Top-five weeks: 5; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 96; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.53%; week of May 28, 1966
Comebacks: 1; May 1968

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 · 89 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
When A Man Loves A WomanApple Music	#1May 1966	13	April 1966 – July 1966	27.6	27.4
Take Time To Know HerApple Music	#11May 1968	14	March 1968 – June 1968	20.9	20.7
Warm And Tender LoveApple Music	#17September 1966	9	July 1966 – September 1966	12.0	11.8
It Tears Me UpApple Music	#20December 1966	11	October 1966 – December 1966	10.7	10.7
Cover MeApple Music	#42January 1968	8	November 1967 – January 1968	4.3	4.3
Love Me TenderApple Music	#40July 1967	6	June 1967 – July 1967	3.8	3.8
Out Of Left FieldApple Music	#59May 1967	7	April 1967 – May 1967	2.6	2.5
Sudden StopApple Music	#63August 1968	5	August 1968 – August 1968	1.8	1.8
I'll Be Your EverythingApple Music	#62December 1974	6	November 1974 – December 1974	1.5	1.5
Just Out Of Reach (Of My Two Empty Arms)Apple Music	#66September 1967	4	September 1967 – September 1967	1.3	1.3
Baby, Help MeApple Music	#87March 1967	5	February 1967 – March 1967	0.8	0.8
Any Day NowApple Music	#86April 1969	4	April 1969 – May 1969	0.7	0.7
My Special PrayerApple Music	#93February 1969	4	February 1969 – February 1969	0.6	0.6
What Am I Living ForApple Music	#91July 1967	2	July 1967 – July 1967	0.2	0.3

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At their peak

1966 in music →

Percy Sledge's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from April 1966 to April 1967. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s.