Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Sly & The Family Stone

Charting Feb 10, 1968 → Nov 9, 1974 · 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 (9 crowns), UK Singles Chart 42 wk

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Image credits

Photo: Distributed by Epic Records, Daedalus Management, and William Morris Agency, Inc. Photographer uncredited and unknown., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
9 crowns
Longest reign 4 weeks (Feb–Mar 1969) · First crown Feb 1969
Global Music Power
1 crown
19681987
First crown Mar 1969

Billboard Hot 100 · 155 wk UK Singles Chart · 42 wk Global Music Power · 172 wk

Peak Power: 2.43%; week of Mar 22, 1969
Career Power: 236; share-weeks
Crowns: 9; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 85; November 1968 – November 1969
Peak Five Years: 202; June 1967 – June 1972
Top-five weeks: 22; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 155; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.63%; week of Mar 8, 1969
Comebacks: 2; Dec 1971 · Aug 1973

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

16 records · 236 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
Everyday PeopleApple Music	#1February 1969	19	November 1968 – April 1969	41.5	41.1
Family AffairApple Music	#1December 1971	14	November 1971 – February 1972	37.4	37.3
Hot Fun In The SummertimeApple Music	#2October 1969	16	August 1969 – November 1969	32.5	32.2
Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin/Everybody Is A StarApple Music	#1February 1970	13	January 1970 – March 1970	31.3	31.1
Dance To The MusicApple Music	#8April 1968	15	February 1968 – May 1968	26.8	26.6
If You Want Me To StayApple Music	#12September 1973	17	June 1973 – October 1973	25.8	25.8
Runnin' AwayApple Music	#23March 1972	10	February 1972 – April 1972	10.8	10.8
I Want To Take You HigherApple Music	#38June 1970	16	May 1969 – July 1970	8.4	8.5
Stand!Apple Music	#22May 1969	8	April 1969 – May 1969	8.3	8.2
Time For LivinApple Music	#32August 1974	12	July 1974 – September 1974	7.0	6.9
Smilin	#42May 1972	7	April 1972 – June 1972	4.1	4.1
Loose BootyApple Music	#84November 1974	4	October 1974 – November 1974	0.8	0.8
FriskyApple Music	#79December 1973	2	November 1973 – December 1973	0.5	0.5
LifeApple Music	#93July 1968	3	July 1968 – August 1968	0.4	0.4
Sing A Simple SongApple Music	#89March 1969	4	March 1969 – March 1969	0.4	0.7
M'LadyApple Music	#93August 1968	3	August 1968 – August 1968	0.4	0.4

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At their peak

1968 in music →

Sly & The Family Stone's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from November 1968 to November 1969. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s.