Artists · Global Music Power

The Sweet Inspirations

Charting Jun 3, 1967 → Sep 28, 1968 · 30 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 30 wk

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Billboard Hot 100 · 30 wk Global Music Power · 30 wk

Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart combined, weighted · UK Singles Chart data ends Sep 18, 2026 · How it works

Each week an artist's share is the weighted mean of their Power Share across Billboard Hot 100 ×1 and UK Singles Chart ×0.45 (weights ∝ √population, US = 1). The divisor is every chart's weight, so a number one is worth the same share in any era — and a week before every chart exists, or after one's data ends, sums to less than 100.

UK Singles Chart data runs to Sep 18, 2026; later weeks combine the Billboard Hot 100 only, so their shares — and the most recent years' Era Power — are lower than a full week's would be.

Peak Power: 0.77%; week of Jun 1, 1968
Career Power: 15; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 14; October 1967 – September 1968
Peak Five Years: 15; October 1963 – September 1968
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 30; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 1.36%; week of May 11, 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 Global Music Power

5 records · 15 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. On this combined chart each song's figures are its figures on each market, weighted as the chart weights them, so the list still adds up to Career Power; peaks and weeks are shown per market.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
Sweet InspirationApple Music	#18	14	March 1968 – June 1968	12.0	11.9
Why (Am I Treated So Bad)Apple Music	#57	5	June 1967 – July 1967	1.4	1.4
Unchained MelodyApple Music	#73	5	August 1968 – September 1968	1.0	0.9
To Love SomebodyApple Music	#74	4	July 1968 – July 1968	0.6	0.6
Let It Be MeApple Music	#94	2	July 1967 – July 1967	0.2	0.2

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At their peak

The Sweet Inspirations's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from October 1967 to September 1968. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.