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The First Edition

Charting Feb 10, 1968Mar 29, 1969 · 21 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 21 wk

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Peak Power
1.48%
week of Apr 6, 1968
Career Power
34
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
23
February 1968 – February 1969
Peak Five Years
34
April 1964 – March 1969
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
21
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.07%
week of Mar 16, 1968
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

2 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.

SongPeakWeeksPower
Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)#51020.5
But You Know I Love You#191113.1

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At their peak

1968 in music

The First Edition's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from February 1968 to February 1969. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Aretha Franklin113
  2. 2The Beatles97
  3. 3The Temptations76
  4. 4Diana Ross & The Supremes75
  5. 5Marvin Gaye74
  6. 6Archie Bell & The Drells67
  7. 7Dionne Warwick66
  8. 8Tommy James And The Shondells65
  9. 9Steppenwolf63
  10. 10Otis Redding63

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.