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The Meters portraitThe Meters

Charting Feb 8, 1969Oct 8, 1977 · 49 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 49 wk

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Peak Power
0.79%
week of Jun 7, 1969
Career Power
24
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
19
February 1969 – February 1970
Peak Five Years
24
August 1965 – July 1970
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
49
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.64%
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

7 records · 24 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
Cissy Strut#23119.2
Sophisticated Cissy#3485.4
Chicken Strut#5083.5
Look-Ka Py Py#56103.3
Ease Back#6161.8
Hand Clapping Song#8940.6
Be My Lady#7820.5

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At their peak

1969 in music

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

  1. 1Creedence Clearwater Revival137
  2. 2The 5th Dimension103
  3. 3Three Dog Night96
  4. 4Elvis Presley95
  5. 5Tommy James And The Shondells94
  6. 6Blood, Sweat & Tears92
  7. 7The Temptations88
  8. 8The Beatles88
  9. 9James Brown79
  10. 10Sly & The Family Stone79

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s.