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My Sweet Potato

Booker T. & The MG's

Entered Sep 3, 1966 · 5 weeks on the chart, last seen Oct 1, 1966

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Record Power
0.9
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#85
1 week there · Oct 1, 1966
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
5
September 1966 – October 1966

Ranked by Record Power, part of the ChartReign Power model — not a chart published by anyone else. How it works →

The run

Position by week; a gap is a spell off the chart.

What it earned each artist

Record Power is the song's own figure. Power contributed is what it earned each artist's Career Power: a featured credit takes its reduced share, and a week where the artist had other songs charting is split between them.

ArtistCreditCredit sharePower contributed
Booker T. & The MG'sprimary100%0.9

The top ten the week it peaked

See Oct 1, 1966 on the timeline →
  1. #1CherishThe Association
  2. #2You Can't Hurry LoveThe Supremes
  3. #3Beauty Is Only Skin DeepThe Temptations
  4. #4Black Is BlackLos Bravos
  5. #5Bus StopThe Hollies
  6. #696 Tears? (Question Mark) & The Mysterians
  7. #7Reach Out I'll Be ThereFour Tops
  8. #8Yellow SubmarineThe Beatles
  9. #9Sunshine SupermanDonovan
  10. #10Cherry, CherryNeil Diamond

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