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The Gentrys portraitThe Gentrys

Charting Sep 11, 1965Mar 6, 1971 · 46 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 46 wk

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Peak Power
1.59%
week of Nov 20, 1965
Career Power
37
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
29
June 1965 – June 1966
Peak Five Years
36
July 1965 – July 1970
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
46
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.22%
week of Oct 30, 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

6 records · 37 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
Keep On Dancing#41325.1
Cinnamon Girl#52125.0
Spread It On Thick#5083.4
Why Should I Cry#6162.0
Everyday I Have To Cry#7750.9
Wild World#9720.3

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At their peak

1965 in music

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

  1. 1The Beatles134
  2. 2The Rolling Stones122
  3. 3Herman's Hermits113
  4. 4Gary Lewis And The Playboys96
  5. 5The Beach Boys87
  6. 6The Righteous Brothers86
  7. 7The Dave Clark Five86
  8. 8The Supremes83
  9. 9The Lovin' Spoonful77
  10. 10The Byrds76

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s.