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Van Morrison portraitVan Morrison

Charting Jul 15, 1967Nov 25, 1978 · 92 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 92 wk, UK Singles Chart 47 wk

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Peak Power
1.39%
week of Oct 21, 1967
Career Power
79
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
36
December 1970 – November 1971
Peak Five Years
71
March 1967 – February 1972
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
92
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.68%
week of Jan 2, 1971
Comebacks
1
Jan 1971

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

11 records · 79 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
Brown Eyed Girl#101621.6
Domino#91218.2
Blue Money#231213.0
Wild Night#28118.9
Wavelength#42115.6
Come Running#3985.2
Tupelo Honey#4783.6
Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile)#6162.1
Moondance#9240.6
Call Me Up In Dreamland#9520.3
Redwood Tree#9820.2

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At their peak

1970 in music

Van Morrison's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from December 1970 to November 1971. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Carpenters107
  2. 2Three Dog Night85
  3. 3Aretha Franklin78
  4. 4The Osmonds78
  5. 5Jackson 577
  6. 6Marvin Gaye73
  7. 7Chicago71
  8. 8The 5th Dimension70
  9. 9Bee Gees69
  10. 10Dawn66

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s.