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Solomon Burke portraitSolomon Burke

Charting Sep 18, 1961Mar 29, 1975 · 161 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 161 wk, UK Singles Chart 2 wk

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Peak Power
0.86%
week of Dec 25, 1961
Career Power
80
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
22
August 1964 – July 1965
Peak Five Years
69
April 1961 – April 1966
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
161
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.75%
week of May 1, 1965
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

26 records · 80 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
Just Out Of Reach (Of My Two Open Arms)#241713.8
Got To Get You Off My Mind#22109.3
Tonight's The Night#28108.6
Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye)#33107.8
If You Need Me#37115.8
Cry To Me#44105.4
Proud Mary#4574.2
He'll Have To Go#5184.0
You're Good For Me#4983.5
Everybody Needs Somebody To Love#5882.8
Take Me (Just As I Am)#4952.5
I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel To Be Free)#6882.0
The Price#5752.0
Down In The Valley#7181.7
Keep A Light In The Window Till I Come Home#6451.6
Can't Nobody Love You#6661.6
Love's Street And Fool's Road#8950.7
Someone Is Watching#8940.6
I Really Don't Want To Know#9330.4
Yes I Do#9230.4
Only Love (Can Save Me Now)#9420.3
The Electronic Magnetism (That's Heavy, Baby)#9620.3
I Feel A Sin Coming On#9720.3
You And Your Baby Blues#9620.3
Baby Come On Home#9620.3
I'm Hanging Up My Heart For You#8520.2

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At their peak

1964 in music

Solomon Burke's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from August 1964 to July 1965. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1The Supremes154
  2. 2The Beatles152
  3. 3Herman's Hermits123
  4. 4The Beach Boys93
  5. 5The Rolling Stones89
  6. 6The Dave Clark Five82
  7. 7Roger Miller78
  8. 8Elvis Presley75
  9. 9Gerry And The Pacemakers73
  10. 10The Kinks73

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s.