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The Status Quo portraitThe Status Quo

Charting May 18, 1968Oct 12, 1968 · 20 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 20 wk, UK Singles Chart 432 wk

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Peak Power
1.24%
week of Sep 7, 1968
Career Power
21
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
21
October 1967 – October 1968
Peak Five Years
21
October 1963 – October 1968
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
20
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.41%
week of Aug 3, 1968
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

2 records · 21 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
Pictures Of Matchstick Men#121720.0
Ice In The Sun#7030.9

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At their peak

1967 in music

The Status Quo's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from October 1967 to October 1968. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Aretha Franklin134
  2. 2The Young Rascals86
  3. 3Dionne Warwick84
  4. 4The Beatles82
  5. 5The Monkees71
  6. 6The Cowsills68
  7. 7The Temptations67
  8. 8Smokey Robinson & The Miracles66
  9. 9The Box Tops66
  10. 10Gladys Knight And The Pips63

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.