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The Foundations portraitThe Foundations

Charting Dec 23, 1967Jul 12, 1969 · 39 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 39 wk, UK Singles Chart 57 wk

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Artist of the Week

  • Global Music Power

    1 crown

    19671998

    First crown Mar 1969

Peak Power
2.12%
week of Apr 5, 1969
Career Power
62
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
38
July 1968 – July 1969
Peak Five Years
62
July 1964 – July 1969
Top-five weeks
6
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
39
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.31%
week of Feb 22, 1969
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

5 records · 62 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
Build Me Up Buttercup#31535.0
Baby, Now That I've Found You#111321.9
In The Bad, Bad Old Days (Before You Loved Me)#5173.2
Back On My Feet Again#5962.0
My Little Chickadee#9920.2

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At their peak

1968 in music

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

  1. 1The Beatles96
  2. 2The 5th Dimension92
  3. 3Marvin Gaye91
  4. 4Steppenwolf83
  5. 5Diana Ross & The Supremes83
  6. 6The Temptations82
  7. 7Glen Campbell80
  8. 8Creedence Clearwater Revival80
  9. 9Tommy James And The Shondells79
  10. 10Aretha Franklin72

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.