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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The Ballads

Charting Jul 20, 1968Aug 31, 1968 · 7 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 7 wk

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Peak Power
0.16%
week of Aug 31, 1968
Career Power
2
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
2
September 1967 – August 1968
Peak Five Years
2
September 1963 – August 1968
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
7
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.38%
week of Aug 24, 1968
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

1 song · 2 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
God Bless Our Love#6571.9

At their peak

1967 in music

The Ballads's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from September 1967 to August 1968. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Aretha Franklin125
  2. 2The Box Tops83
  3. 3Dionne Warwick79
  4. 4The Monkees78
  5. 5The Young Rascals78
  6. 6The Temptations78
  7. 7The Cowsills67
  8. 8The Beatles66
  9. 9James Brown And The Famous Flames64
  10. 10Smokey Robinson & The Miracles59

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.