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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The Hesitations

Charting Jan 6, 1968Nov 16, 1968 · 23 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 23 wk

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Peak Power
0.56%
week of Apr 27, 1968
Career Power
11
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
11
November 1967 – November 1968
Peak Five Years
11
November 1963 – November 1968
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
23
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.98%
week of Feb 24, 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

4 records · 11 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
Born Free#38105.8
The Impossible Dream#4284.6
Climb Every Mountain#9030.5
A Whiter Shade Of Pale#10020.2

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At their peak

1967 in music

The Hesitations's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from November 1967 to November 1968. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Aretha Franklin124
  2. 2The Beatles106
  3. 3Dionne Warwick80
  4. 4The Monkees72
  5. 5Smokey Robinson & The Miracles65
  6. 6Gladys Knight And The Pips59
  7. 7Otis Redding59
  8. 8The Temptations59
  9. 91910 Fruitgum Co.57
  10. 10The Cowsills57

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.