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Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Understanding

Ray Charles

Entered Jun 15, 1968 · 12 weeks on the chart, last seen Aug 31, 1968

Record Power
4.9
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#46
2 weeks there · first Aug 17, 1968
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
12
June 1968 – August 1968

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
Ray Charlesprimary100%3.9

The top ten the week it peaked

See Aug 17, 1968 on the timeline →
  1. #1People Got To Be FreeThe Young Rascals
  2. #2Hello, I Love YouThe Doors
  3. #3Classical GasMason Williams
  4. #4Born To Be WildSteppenwolf
  5. #5Light My FireJose Feliciano
  6. #6Stoned Soul PicnicThe 5th Dimension
  7. #7Turn Around, Look At MeThe Vogues
  8. #8Sunshine Of Your LoveCream
  9. #9Grazing In The GrassHugh Masekela
  10. #10Hurdy Gurdy ManDonovan

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1968 in music

Every other song that reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1968.

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