Artists · Global Music Power

The New Birth

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

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 57 wk

Billboard Hot 100 · 57 wk Global Music Power · 43 wk

Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart combined, weighted · How it works

Each week an artist's share is the weighted mean of their Power Share across Billboard Hot 100 ×1 and UK Singles Chart ×0.45 (weights ∝ √population, US = 1). The divisor is every chart's weight, so a number one is worth the same share in any era — and a week before every chart exists, or after one's data ends, sums to less than 100.

Peak Power: 0.40%; week of Jun 9, 1973
Career Power: 14; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 7; March 1973 – March 1974
Peak Five Years: 14; November 1969 – October 1974
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 43; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 0.75%; 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 Global Music Power

8 records · 17 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. On this combined chart each song's figures are its figures on each market, weighted as the chart weights them, so the list still adds up to Career Power; peaks and weeks are shown per market.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
I Can Understand ItApple Music	#35	13	March 1973 – June 1973	6.1	6.0
Dream MerchantApple Music	#36	11	July 1975 – September 1975	3.6	3.6
It's ImpossibleApple Music	#52	9	October 1971 – December 1971	2.9	2.9
Wildflower	#45	9	May 1974 – July 1974	2.9	2.8
It's Been A Long TimeApple Music	#66	6	February 1974 – March 1974	1.2	1.2
I Wash My Hands Of The Whole Damn Deal, Part I	#88	3	October 1974 – October 1974	0.3	0.3
Granddaddy (Part 1)Apple Music	#95	3	May 1975 – June 1975	0.3	0.3
Until It's Time For You To GoApple Music	#97	3	August 1973 – September 1973	0.2	0.2

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At their peak

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

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.