Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Sam Smith

Charting Mar 8, 2014 → Jun 3, 2023 · 237 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 237 wk (8 crowns), UK Singles Chart 380 wk (19 crowns)

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Honours

Artist of the Year: 2014

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
8 crowns
Longest reign 8 weeks (Jul–Aug 2014) · First crown Jul 2014
UK Singles Chart
19 crowns
Longest reign 5 weeks (Mar 2015) · First crown Feb 2014
Global Music Power
16 crowns
20122025
Longest reign 12 weeks (Jul–Sep 2014) · First crown Jun 2014

Billboard Hot 100 · 237 wk UK Singles Chart · 380 wk Global Music Power · 398 wk

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Peak Power: 4.25%; week of Feb 28, 2015
Career Power: 402; share-weeks
Crowns: 8; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 193; June 2014 – May 2015
Peak Five Years: 279; June 2014 – May 2019
Top-five weeks: 45; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 237; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 5.07%; week of Feb 28, 2015
Comebacks: 3; Nov 2017 · Sep 2019 · Jan 2023

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

20 records · 402 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
Stay With MeApple Music	#2August 2014	54	April 2014 – May 2015	97.5	106.3
I'm Not The Only OneApple Music	#5December 2014	37	June 2014 – May 2015	67.7	70.6
Too Good At GoodbyesApple Music	#4November 2017	23	September 2017 – March 2018	61.3	56.6
Unholywith Kim PetrasApple Music	#1October 2022	35	October 2022 – June 2023	51.2	86.8
Dancing With A Strangerwith NormaniApple Music	#7April 2019	45	January 2019 – November 2019	40.4	81.2
How Do You Sleep?Apple Music	#24October 2019	20	August 2019 – December 2019	26.4	23.6
Lay Me DownApple Music	#8March 2015	20	February 2015 – July 2015	21.8	21.6
DiamondsApple Music	#39January 2021	20	October 2020 – February 2021	12.6	11.5
Latchfeatured credit · with DisclosureApple Music	#7August 2014	33	March 2014 – November 2014	9.4	48.4
La La Lafeatured credit · with Naughty BoyApple Music	#19May 2014	20	March 2014 – July 2014	4.8	19.0
To Die ForApple Music	#46February 2020	6	February 2020 – April 2020	2.2	1.9
Love Me MoreApple Music	#73July 2022	10	May 2022 – August 2022	2.1	1.8
Promiseswith Calvin HarrisApple Music	#65September 2018	12	September 2018 – November 2018	1.6	2.8
I'm Readywith Demi LovatoApple Music	#36May 2020	4	May 2020 – May 2020	1.1	2.1
Writing's On The WallApple Music	#71October 2015	2	October 2015 – November 2015	0.7	0.6
Omenfeatured credit · with DisclosureApple Music	#64August 2015	6	August 2015 – September 2015	0.4	1.3
I'm Not Here To Make Friends	#71February 2023	2	February 2023 – February 2023	0.3	0.5
Like I CanApple Music	#99July 2015	2	July 2015 – August 2015	0.3	0.2
Have Yourself A Merry Little ChristmasApple Music	#90December 2014	1	December 2014	0.1	0.2
Leave Your Lover	#92June 2014	1	June 2014	0.0	0.2

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At their peak

2014 in music →

Sam Smith's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from June 2014 to May 2015. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 2010s, the 2020s.