Artists · Billboard Hot 100

War

Charting May 23, 1970 → Oct 19, 1991 · 220 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 220 wk (2 crowns), UK Singles Chart 34 wk

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Image credits

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Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
2 crowns
19701991
Longest reign 2 weeks (Apr–May 1973) · First crown Apr 1973

Billboard Hot 100 · 220 wk UK Singles Chart · 34 wk Global Music Power · 239 wk

Peak Power: 2.25%; week of May 12, 1973
Career Power: 242; share-weeks
Crowns: 2; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 77; January 1973 – January 1974
Peak Five Years: 202; November 1971 – October 1976
Top-five weeks: 5; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 220; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.40%; week of May 5, 1973
Comebacks: 1; July 1975

Comebacks (thresholds from `config/scoring.json`)
Kind	Trough began	Returned	Trough weeks	Longest absence	Prior peak	Return share
After decline	Apr 13, 1974	Jul 19, 1975	66	37	2.25%	1.01%

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

17 records · 242 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.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
Why Can't We Be Friends?Apple Music	#6August 1975	20	May 1975 – September 1975	30.5	30.5
The Cisco KidApple Music	#2April 1973	15	March 1973 – June 1973	29.3	29.3
SummerApple Music	#7September 1976	16	July 1976 – October 1976	25.9	25.8
Low RiderApple Music	#7November 1975	15	September 1975 – December 1975	25.7	25.6
The World Is A GhettoApple Music	#7February 1973	16	November 1972 – March 1973	21.7	21.7
Slippin' Into DarknessApple Music	#16May 1972	22	January 1972 – June 1972	21.7	21.6
Gypsy ManApple Music	#8September 1973	13	July 1973 – October 1973	21.5	21.4
Me And Baby BrotherApple Music	#15January 1974	15	November 1973 – February 1974	19.3	19.2
Spill The Winewith Eric BurdonApple Music	#3August 1970	21	May 1970 – October 1970	16.4	32.6
All Day MusicApple Music	#35October 1971	11	August 1971 – October 1971	7.8	7.8
BalleroApple Music	#33July 1974	10	June 1974 – August 1974	6.2	6.2
GalaxyApple Music	#39February 1978	9	January 1978 – March 1978	5.6	5.4
L.a. SunshineApple Music	#45August 1977	10	July 1977 – September 1977	5.3	5.2
They Can't Take Away Our Musicwith Eric BurdonApple Music	#50January 1971	8	December 1970 – February 1971	1.8	3.5
You Got The PowerApple Music	#66April 1982	6	April 1982 – May 1982	1.5	1.5
Low Rider (On The Boulevard)featured credit · with Latin Alliance	#54September 1991	11	August 1991 – October 1991	1.2	3.8
OutlawApple Music	#94July 1982	3	July 1982 – July 1982	0.4	0.4

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At their peak

1973 in music →

War's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from January 1973 to January 1974. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s.