Artists · Global Music Power

Syl Johnson

Charting Aug 19, 1967 → Jul 26, 1975 · 27 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 27 wk

Billboard Hot 100 · 27 wk Global Music Power · 27 wk

Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart combined, weighted · UK Singles Chart data ends Sep 18, 2026 · How it works

Each week an artist's share is the weighted mean of their Power Share across Billboard Hot 100 ×1 and UK Singles Chart ×0.45 (weights ∝ √population, US = 1). The divisor is every chart's weight, so a number one is worth the same share in any era — and a week before every chart exists, or after one's data ends, sums to less than 100.

UK Singles Chart data runs to Sep 18, 2026; later weeks combine the Billboard Hot 100 only, so their shares — and the most recent years' Era Power — are lower than a full week's would be.

Peak Power: 0.17%; week of Jul 26, 1975
Career Power: 5; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 2; August 1974 – July 1975
Peak Five Years: 3; August 1970 – July 1975
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 27; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 0.48%; week of Jul 19, 1975
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 Global Music Power

6 records · 5 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. On this combined chart each song's figures are its figures on each market, weighted as the chart weights them, so the list still adds up to Career Power; peaks and weeks are shown per market.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
Take Me To The RiverApple Music	#48	7	June 1975 – July 1975	2.1	2.1
Is It Because I'm BlackApple Music	#68	6	December 1969 – January 1970	1.0	1.0
Back For A Taste Of Your LoveApple Music	#72	6	October 1973 – December 1973	0.8	0.8
Come On Sock It To MeApple Music	#97	3	August 1967 – September 1967	0.3	0.3
We Did ItApple Music	#95	3	February 1973 – March 1973	0.2	0.2
Different StrokesApple Music	#95	2	October 1967 – October 1967	0.2	0.2

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At their peak

Syl Johnson's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from August 1974 to July 1975. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.