Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Charting Apr 8, 1967 → Oct 24, 1981 · 102 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 102 wk

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Photo: United Artists Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Billboard Hot 100 · 102 wk Global Music Power · 102 wk

Peak Power: 1.65%; week of Mar 20, 1971
Career Power: 82; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 38; October 1979 – October 1980
Peak Five Years: 39; November 1966 – October 1971
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 102; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 2.67%; week of Feb 27, 1971
Comebacks: 1; Feb 1980, after 9 quiet years

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

11 records · 82 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.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
Mr. BojanglesApple Music	#9February 1971	19	November 1970 – March 1971	27.5	27.5
An American Dream	#13March 1980	19	December 1979 – April 1980	23.0	22.8
Make A Little Magic	#25August 1980	16	June 1980 – October 1980	14.8	14.6
House At Pooh CornerApple Music	#53June 1971	13	April 1971 – July 1971	5.7	5.6
Buy For Me The RainApple Music	#45May 1967	7	April 1967 – May 1967	4.0	3.9
Some Of Shelly's BluesApple Music	#64October 1971	8	September 1971 – October 1971	2.2	2.2
(All I Have To Do Is) DreamApple Music	#66October 1975	6	August 1975 – October 1975	1.7	1.7
Battle Of New OrleansApple Music	#72October 1974	4	October 1974 – November 1974	1.0	1.0
Fire In The Sky	#76October 1981	4	October 1981 – October 1981	0.8	0.8
Jambalaya (On The Bayou)Apple Music	#84April 1972	3	April 1972 – April 1972	0.6	0.6
In For The Night	#86September 1978	3	September 1978 – September 1978	0.5	0.5

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At their peak

1979 in music →

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from October 1979 to October 1980. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s.