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The Honey Cone

Charting Jun 28, 1969Aug 19, 1972 · 68 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in itBillboard Hot 100 68 wk (1 crown)

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Honours

Artist of the Week

  • Billboard Hot 100

    1 crown

    19691972

    First crown Jun 1971

Peak Power
2.14%
week of Jul 10, 1971
Career Power
87
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
80
May 1971 – April 1972
Peak Five Years
87
September 1967 – August 1972
Top-five weeks
5
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
68
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.52%
week of Jun 12, 1971
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

7 records · 87 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
Want Ads#11634.7
Stick-Up#111221.1
One Monkey Don't Stop No Show Part I#151115.8
The Day I Found Myself#231110.4
While You're Out Looking For Sugar?#6282.4
Girls It Ain't Easy#6861.7
Sittin' On A Time Bomb (Waitin' For The Hurt To Come)#9640.5

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At their peak

1971 in music

The Honey Cone's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from May 1971 to April 1972. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Three Dog Night106
  2. 2Carpenters96
  3. 3Aretha Franklin82
  4. 4The Honey Cone80
  5. 5Donny Osmond79
  6. 6Carole King77
  7. 7Al Green76
  8. 8Bread76
  9. 9The Osmonds74
  10. 10Cher61

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s.