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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The Roots portraitThe Roots

Charting Jan 11, 1997Feb 13, 2010 · 31 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 31 wk, UK Singles Chart 11 wk

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Peak Power
0.56%
week of Mar 15, 1997
Career Power
14
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
9
April 1996 – April 1997
Peak Five Years
14
May 1994 – May 1999
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
31
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.14%
week of Mar 1, 1997
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

4 records · 14 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
What They Do#34158.5
You Got Mefeat. Erykah Badu#39145.7
Break You Offfeat. Musiq Soulchild#9910.1
Let It Befeatured credit · with Jennifer Hudson#9810.0

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At their peak

1996 in music

The Roots's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from April 1996 to April 1997. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Toni Braxton170
  2. 2Celine Dion150
  3. 3Keith Sweat130
  4. 4Los Del Rio121
  5. 5R. Kelly116
  6. 6Alanis Morissette102
  7. 7Jewel100
  8. 8Donna Lewis96
  9. 9No Mercy91
  10. 10Quad City DJ's83

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s.