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The Yardbirds portraitThe Yardbirds

Charting May 15, 1965 → Nov 25, 1967 · 79 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 79 wk, UK Singles Chart 62 wk

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Billboard Hot 100 · 79 wkUK Singles Chart · 62 wkGlobal Music Power · 101 wk
Peak Power
1.77%
week of Oct 2, 1965
Career Power
96
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
66
June 1965 – May 1966
Peak Five Years
96
December 1962 – November 1967
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
79
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.00%
week of Jul 3, 1965
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

9 records · 96 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
For Your Love#61221.4
Heart Full Of Soul#91218.1
Shapes Of Things#111116.4
Over Under Sideways Down#131115.0
I'm A Man#171011.9
Happenings Ten Years Time Ago#3096.9
Ha Ha Said The Clown#4573.4
Little Games#5163.0
Ten Little Indians#9620.3

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At their peak

1965 in music →

The Yardbirds's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from June 1965 to May 1966. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1The Beatles138
  2. 2Herman's Hermits123
  3. 3The Rolling Stones115
  4. 4Gary Lewis And The Playboys93
  5. 5The Beach Boys92
  6. 6The Righteous Brothers90
  7. 7The Dave Clark Five88
  8. 8The Supremes86
  9. 9The Byrds80
  10. 10Sonny & Cher73

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.