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Wilson Pickett portraitWilson Pickett

Charting May 4, 1963 → Oct 27, 1973 · 281 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 281 wk, UK Singles Chart 59 wk

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Peak Power
1.52%
week of Sep 24, 1966
Career Power
242
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
53
August 1967 – August 1968
Peak Five Years
182
July 1966 – July 1971
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
281
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.98%
week of Sep 10, 1966
Comebacks
1
Nov 1970

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

38 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.

SongPeakWeeksPower
Funky Broadway#81219.4
Land Of 1000 Dances#61119.3
Don't Knock My Love - Pt. 1#131217.8
Engine Number 9#141317.1
634-5789 (Soulsville, U.S.A.)#131116.5
She's Lookin' Good#151012.8
Don't Let The Green Grass Fool You#171112.6
Fire And Water#241112.2
Sugar Sugar/Cole, Cooke & Redding#251212.1
In The Midnight Hour#211210.8
Hey Jude#23910.5
Mustang Sally#23910.0
Stag-O-Lee#2267.1
I'm A Midnight Mover#2476.8
Everybody Needs Somebody To Love#2975.6
I'm In Love#45104.8
I Found A True Love#4274.6
I Found A Love - Part 1#3264.6
It's Too Late#49104.5
Ninety-Nine And A Half (Won't Do)#5383.5
Call My Name, I'll Be There#5273.3
Don't Fight It#53103.3
Mini-Skirt Minnie#5062.9
A Man And A Half#4262.9
Funk Factory#5882.8
Jealous Love#5052.5
Hey Joe#5962.2
Soul Dance Number Three#5551.9
If You Need Me#6461.7
Born To Be Wild#6441.3
She Said Yes#6851.2
You Can't Stand Alone#7051.2
Take A Closer Look At The Woman You're With#9050.7
Cole, Cooke & Redding#9140.6
I'm Down To My Last Heartbreak#9540.5
You Keep Me Hanging On#9230.4
Mama Told Me Not To Come#9920.2
Mr. Magic Man#9810.1

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At their peak

1967 in music →

Wilson Pickett's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from August 1967 to August 1968. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Aretha Franklin131
  2. 2The Monkees97
  3. 3The Box Tops87
  4. 4The Beatles82
  5. 5Dionne Warwick82
  6. 6The Temptations81
  7. 7The Young Rascals74
  8. 8James Brown And The Famous Flames73
  9. 9The Cowsills64
  10. 10Smokey Robinson & The Miracles61

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s.