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Tower Of Power portraitTower Of Power

Charting Jul 15, 1972Dec 4, 1976 · 70 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 70 wk

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Peak Power
1.16%
week of Aug 18, 1973
Career Power
45
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
27
August 1972 – August 1973
Peak Five Years
45
December 1971 – December 1976
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
70
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.04%
week of Jul 28, 1973
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

8 records · 45 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
So Very Hard To Go#171819.5
You're Still A Young Man#29129.9
Don't Change Horses (In The Middle Of A Stream)#26107.8
You Ought To Be Havin' Fun#6882.3
Down To The Nightclub#6682.2
This Time It's Real#6561.7
Time Will Tell#6961.5
What Is Hip?#9120.3

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At their peak

1972 in music

Tower Of Power's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from August 1972 to August 1973. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Elton John89
  2. 2Gilbert O'Sullivan84
  3. 3The Spinners79
  4. 4Al Green75
  5. 5Wings70
  6. 6Three Dog Night69
  7. 7Stevie Wonder69
  8. 8Helen Reddy69
  9. 9Lobo68
  10. 10Jim Croce68

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.