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The 5 Stairsteps

Charting Dec 2, 1967Aug 29, 1970 · 29 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 29 wk

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Peak Power
1.66%
week of Aug 22, 1970
Career Power
28
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
28
September 1969 – August 1970
Peak Five Years
28
September 1965 – August 1970
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
29
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.78%
week of Jul 25, 1970
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

4 records · 28 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
O-o-h Child/Dear Prudence#81625.7
Dear Prudence#6661.9
Something's Missingwith Cubie#8860.5
The Shadow Of Your Lovewith Cubie#9410.1

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At their peak

1969 in music

The 5 Stairsteps's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from September 1969 to August 1970. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Creedence Clearwater Revival116
  2. 2The Beatles116
  3. 3Jackson 5113
  4. 4Three Dog Night103
  5. 5The Temptations97
  6. 6Elvis Presley95
  7. 7Bobby Sherman85
  8. 8The Guess Who83
  9. 9B.J. Thomas79
  10. 10The 5th Dimension74

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s.