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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Traffic

Charting Sep 2, 1967Jan 22, 1972 · 18 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 18 wk, UK Singles Chart 42 wk

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Peak Power
0.11%
week of Nov 14, 1970
Career Power
3
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
1
November 1969 – November 1970
Peak Five Years
3
February 1967 – January 1972
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
18
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.28%
week of Nov 14, 1970
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

4 records · 3 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
Empty Pages#7481.5
Gimme Some Lovin'-Pt. 1with Etc.#6870.9
Rock & Roll Stew...Part 1#9320.3
Paper Sun#9410.1

30-second previews and store links from Apple Music.

At their peak

1969 in music

Traffic's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from November 1969 to November 1970. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Jackson 5139
  2. 2Creedence Clearwater Revival110
  3. 3The Beatles94
  4. 4Three Dog Night89
  5. 5Neil Diamond89
  6. 6The Guess Who84
  7. 7Bobby Sherman82
  8. 8B.J. Thomas82
  9. 9Simon & Garfunkel78
  10. 10Elvis Presley78

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s.