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The Bar-Kays portraitThe Bar-Kays

Charting Oct 14, 1967Mar 5, 1977 · 34 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 34 wk, UK Singles Chart 19 wk

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Peak Power
0.98%
week of Jan 22, 1977
Career Power
20
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
16
March 1976 – March 1977
Peak Five Years
17
February 1972 – January 1977
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
34
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.65%
week of Jan 15, 1977
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 · 20 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
Shake Your Rump To The Funk#231615.0
Son Of Shaft#53103.9
Too Hot To Stop (Pt. 1)#7441.0
Give Everybody Some#9140.6

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At their peak

1976 in music

The Bar-Kays's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from March 1976 to March 1977. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Captain & Tennille94
  2. 2Bee Gees94
  3. 3Wings78
  4. 4The Sylvers77
  5. 5Steve Miller76
  6. 6Peter Frampton73
  7. 7Queen70
  8. 8Gary Wright70
  9. 9England Dan & John Ford Coley66
  10. 10Fleetwood Mac65

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s.