Artists · Global Music Power
The Bar-Kays
Charting Aug 26, 1967 → Jan 26, 1985 · 50 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 73 wk, UK Singles Chart 19 wk
Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart combined, weighted · 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.
- Peak Power
- 0.72%
- week of Jan 22, 1977
- Career Power
- 18
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Artist of the Week
- Peak Year
- 12
- March 1976 – March 1977
- Peak Five Years
- 12
- February 1972 – January 1977
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 50
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 1.36%
- 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 →
Songs on the Global Music Power
10 records · 34 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soul FingerApple Music | #17#33 | 157 | 13.6 | ||
| Shake Your Rump To The FunkApple Music | #23#41 | 164 | 11.4 | ||
| Son Of ShaftApple Music | #53 | 10 | 2.7 | ||
| Move Your Boogie BodyApple Music | #57 | 7 | 1.8 | ||
| Freakshow On The Dance FloorApple Music | #73 | 8 | 1.1 | ||
| Today Is The DayApple Music | #60 | 5 | 1.1 | ||
| Sex O Matic | #51 | 8 | 0.9 | ||
| Too Hot To Stop (Pt. 1)Apple Music | #74 | 4 | 0.7 | ||
| KnuckleheadApple Music | #76 | 4 | 0.6 | ||
| Give Everybody SomeApple Music | #91 | 4 | 0.4 |
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At their peak
The Bar-Kays's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from March 1976 to March 1977. The most powerful artists over those weeks:
- 1ABBA79
- 2Bee Gees72
- 3Wings72
- 4Captain & Tennille65
- 5Rod Stewart64
- 6Queen61
- 7Peter Frampton58
- 8Dr. Hook57
- 9Elton John53
- 10The Sylvers53
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.