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The Friends Of Distinction portraitThe Friends Of Distinction

Charting Apr 5, 1969Feb 20, 1971 · 65 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 65 wk

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Peak Power
1.75%
week of May 23, 1970
Career Power
82
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
68
May 1969 – May 1970
Peak Five Years
82
March 1966 – February 1971
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
65
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.29%
week of Jun 7, 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

6 records · 82 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
Grazing In The Grass#31628.4
Love Or Let Me Be Lonely#61324.3
Going In Circles#152024.2
Time Waits For No One#6082.7
Let Yourself Go#6351.5
I Need You#7950.9

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At their peak

1969 in music

The Friends Of Distinction's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from May 1969 to May 1970. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Creedence Clearwater Revival134
  2. 2The Beatles115
  3. 3Three Dog Night102
  4. 4Elvis Presley100
  5. 5The Guess Who90
  6. 6The 5th Dimension85
  7. 7The Archies77
  8. 8The Temptations75
  9. 9Tom Jones74
  10. 10Neil Diamond73

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s.