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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Wild Cherry

Charting Jun 19, 1976Apr 15, 1978 · 48 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of themBillboard Hot 100 48 wk (3 crowns), UK Singles Chart 11 wk

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Honours

Artist of the Week

  • Billboard Hot 100

    3 crowns

    19761978

    Longest reign 3 weeks (Sep–Oct 1976) · First crown Sep 1976

Peak Power
2.43%
week of Oct 30, 1976
Career Power
55
share-weeks
Crowns
3
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
52
May 1976 – May 1977
Peak Five Years
55
April 1973 – April 1978
Top-five weeks
6
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
48
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.54%
week of Oct 2, 1976
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

5 records · 55 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
Play That Funky Music#12547.6
Baby Don't You Know#4373.9
I Love My Music#6981.9
Hold On#6161.7
Hot To Trot#9520.3

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At their peak

1976 in music

Wild Cherry's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from May 1976 to May 1977. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Daryl Hall and John Oates100
  2. 2Bee Gees93
  3. 3Steve Miller92
  4. 4Captain & Tennille82
  5. 5Wings79
  6. 6KC And The Sunshine Band70
  7. 7Leo Sayer69
  8. 8ABBA69
  9. 9Fleetwood Mac69
  10. 10Boz Scaggs69

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.