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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The Music Explosion

Charting May 13, 1967Oct 7, 1967 · 21 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 21 wk

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Peak Power
2.10%
week of Aug 12, 1967
Career Power
37
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
37
October 1966 – October 1967
Peak Five Years
37
October 1962 – October 1967
Top-five weeks
4
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
21
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.44%
week of Jul 8, 1967
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

2 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
Little Bit O' Soul#21635.5
Sunshine Games#6351.5

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At their peak

1966 in music

The Music Explosion's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from October 1966 to October 1967. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1The Monkees135
  2. 2The Supremes89
  3. 3The Buckinghams82
  4. 4The Mamas & The Papas81
  5. 5Four Tops81
  6. 6The Young Rascals79
  7. 7Aretha Franklin77
  8. 8The Association74
  9. 9The Turtles73
  10. 10Petula Clark70

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.