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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Charting May 4, 1968May 25, 1968 · 4 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 4 wk

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Peak Power
0.06%
week of May 25, 1968
Career Power
1
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
1
June 1967 – May 1968
Peak Five Years
1
June 1963 – May 1968
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
4
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.17%
week of May 25, 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

1 song · 1 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
I Have A Dream#8840.6

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At their peak

1967 in music

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from June 1967 to May 1968. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Aretha Franklin133
  2. 2The Monkees91
  3. 3Dionne Warwick88
  4. 4The Beatles87
  5. 5The Association86
  6. 6The Young Rascals84
  7. 7The Temptations81
  8. 8The Box Tops76
  9. 9The Doors65
  10. 10Smokey Robinson & The Miracles65

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.