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The Bar-Kays portraitThe Bar-Kays

Charting May 20, 1967Jul 14, 1984 · 73 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 73 wk, UK Singles Chart 19 wk

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Peak Power
1.11%
week of Aug 19, 1967
Career Power
44
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
18
November 1966 – November 1967
Peak Five Years
22
March 1967 – February 1972
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
73
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.04%
week of Aug 12, 1967
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

9 records · 44 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
Soul Finger#171516.8
Shake Your Rump To The Funk#231615.0
Son Of Shaft#53103.9
Move Your Boogie Body#5772.6
Freakshow On The Dance Floor#7381.6
Today Is The Day#6051.6
Too Hot To Stop (Pt. 1)#7441.0
Knucklehead#7640.8
Give Everybody Some#9140.6

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At their peak

1966 in music

The Bar-Kays's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from November 1966 to November 1967. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1The Monkees122
  2. 2The Buckinghams91
  3. 3The Young Rascals87
  4. 4Aretha Franklin87
  5. 5The Mamas & The Papas81
  6. 6The Supremes80
  7. 7The Association76
  8. 8The Turtles74
  9. 9Four Tops73
  10. 10Tommy James And The Shondells71

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s.