Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The Byrds

Charting May 15, 1965 → Feb 7, 1970 · 93 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 93 wk (3 crowns), UK Singles Chart 49 wk (7 crowns)

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Image credits

Photo: Joost Evers / Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
3 crowns
Longest reign 3 weeks (Dec 1965) · First crown Dec 1965
UK Singles Chart
7 crowns
Longest reign 5 weeks (Aug–Sep 1965) · First crown Jul 1965
Global Music Power
4 crowns
19651990
Longest reign 3 weeks (Jul 1965) · First crown Jul 1965

Billboard Hot 100 · 93 wk UK Singles Chart · 49 wk Global Music Power · 116 wk

Peak Power: 2.33%; week of Jan 8, 1966
Career Power: 105; share-weeks
Crowns: 3; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 80; June 1965 – May 1966
Peak Five Years: 105; February 1965 – February 1970
Top-five weeks: 12; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 93; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.59%; week of Jun 26, 1965
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

16 records · 105 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.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season)Apple Music	#1December 1965	14	October 1965 – January 1966	33.4	33.2
Mr. Tambourine ManApple Music	#1June 1965	13	May 1965 – August 1965	28.8	28.2
Eight Miles HighApple Music	#14May 1966	9	April 1966 – June 1966	12.7	12.6
So You Want To Be A Rock 'N' Roll StarApple Music	#29March 1967	7	January 1967 – March 1967	5.9	5.9
My Back PagesApple Music	#30May 1967	7	April 1967 – May 1967	5.6	5.5
All I Really Want To DoApple Music	#40August 1965	10	July 1965 – September 1965	5.0	6.0
Mr. SpacemanApple Music	#36October 1966	7	September 1966 – November 1966	4.4	4.4
5 D (Fifth Dimension)	#44July 1966	5	July 1966 – August 1966	2.8	2.8
It Won't Be WrongApple Music	#63February 1966	5	February 1966 – March 1966	1.7	1.7
Ballad Of Easy RiderApple Music	#65December 1969	6	November 1969 – December 1969	1.5	1.5
You Ain't Going NowhereApple Music	#74June 1968	5	May 1968 – June 1968	1.2	1.2
Have You Seen Her FaceApple Music	#74July 1967	4	June 1967 – July 1967	0.8	0.7
Set You Free This TimeApple Music	#79February 1966	4	February 1966 – February 1966	0.6	0.8
Goin' BackApple Music	#89December 1967	3	November 1967 – December 1967	0.5	0.5
Lady FriendApple Music	#82August 1967	2	August 1967 – August 1967	0.4	0.4
Jesus Is Just Alright	#97February 1970	1	February 1970	0.1	0.1

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At their peak

1965 in music →

The Byrds's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from June 1965 to May 1966. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s.