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The Bar-Kays portraitThe Bar-Kays

Charting Aug 23, 1967Jan 27, 1985 · 19 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
0.52%
week of Oct 4, 1967
Career Power
13
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
7
October 1966 – October 1967
Peak Five Years
7
October 1962 – October 1967
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
19
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.18%
week of Sep 6, 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 UK Singles Chart

3 records · 13 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#3376.7
Shake Your Rump To The Funk#4143.3
Sex O Matic#5182.8

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At their peak

1966 in music

The Bar-Kays's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from October 1966 to October 1967. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Tom Jones130
  2. 2Engelbert Humperdinck130
  3. 3The Monkees115
  4. 4Four Tops87
  5. 5The Tremeloes85
  6. 6The Beach Boys79
  7. 7Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich78
  8. 8The Hollies78
  9. 9The Seekers75
  10. 10Small Faces74

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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