Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The Sweet

Charting Oct 2, 1971 → Sep 2, 1978 · 113 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 113 wk, UK Singles Chart 161 wk (4 crowns)

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Image credits

Photo: Stefan Brending ( 2eight ), CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

UK Singles Chart
4 crowns
Longest reign 3 weeks (Jan–Feb 1973) · First crown Jan 1973
Global Music Power
4 crowns
19711985
Longest reign 4 weeks (Apr–May 1973) · First crown Apr 1973

Billboard Hot 100 · 113 wk UK Singles Chart · 161 wk Global Music Power · 233 wk

All songs Without holiday songs New music only

Peak Power: 2.31%; week of Jan 17, 1976
Career Power: 148; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 76; May 1975 – May 1976
Peak Five Years: 114; September 1972 – September 1977
Top-five weeks: 6; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 113; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.29%; week of May 12, 1973
Comebacks: 2; Sep 1975 · May 1978

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

9 records · 148 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
Little WillyApple Music	#3May 1973	23	January 1973 – June 1973	35.9	35.9
Ballroom BlitzApple Music	#5October 1975	25	June 1975 – November 1975	35.5	35.7
Love Is Like OxygenApple Music	#8June 1978	25	February 1978 – August 1978	33.3	32.9
Fox on the RunApple Music	#5January 1976	16	November 1975 – February 1976	27.1	27.4
ActionApple Music	#20April 1976	14	February 1976 – May 1976	13.5	13.5
BlockbusterApple Music	#73July 1973	7	June 1973 – July 1973	1.3	1.4
California NightsApple Music	#76August 1978	4	August 1978 – September 1978	1.0	1.0
Funk It Up (David's Song)	#88September 1977	5	August 1977 – September 1977	0.7	0.7
Co-Co	#99October 1971	2	October 1971 – October 1971	0.2	0.2

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At their peak

1975 in music →

The Sweet's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from May 1975 to May 1976. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.