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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The Original Caste

Charting Nov 15, 1969Mar 7, 1970 · 17 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 17 wk

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Peak Power
0.56%
week of Feb 28, 1970
Career Power
9
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
9
March 1969 – March 1970
Peak Five Years
9
March 1965 – March 1970
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
17
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.12%
week of Feb 14, 1970
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

1 song · 9 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
One Tin Soldier#34178.8

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At their peak

1969 in music

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

  1. 1Creedence Clearwater Revival139
  2. 2The 5th Dimension107
  3. 3Elvis Presley99
  4. 4Three Dog Night97
  5. 5Blood, Sweat & Tears92
  6. 6The Temptations91
  7. 7The Beatles88
  8. 8Tommy James And The Shondells82
  9. 9Sly & The Family Stone78
  10. 10The Guess Who74

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s.