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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The New Birth

Charting Oct 9, 1971Oct 26, 1974 · 43 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 43 wk

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Peak Power
0.58%
week of Jun 9, 1973
Career Power
20
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
11
March 1973 – March 1974
Peak Five Years
20
November 1969 – October 1974
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
43
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.08%
week of May 26, 1973
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 · 20 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
I Can Understand It#35138.8
It's Impossible#5294.2
Wildflower#4594.1
It's Been A Long Time#6661.7
I Wash My Hands Of The Whole Damn Deal, Part I#8830.5
Until It's Time For You To Go#9730.4

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At their peak

1973 in music

The New Birth's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from March 1973 to March 1974. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Gladys Knight And The Pips118
  2. 2Jim Croce103
  3. 3Elton John95
  4. 4Stevie Wonder92
  5. 5Carpenters92
  6. 6Helen Reddy84
  7. 7Billy Preston75
  8. 8Charlie Rich74
  9. 9Barry White73
  10. 10Marvin Gaye71

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.