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Songs · Billboard Hot 100

The Chokin' Kind

Joe Simon

Entered Mar 22, 1969 · 12 weeks on the chart, last seen Jun 7, 1969

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Record Power
18.8
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#13
1 week there · May 24, 1969
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
12
March 1969 – June 1969

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
Joe Simonprimary100%18.9

The top ten the week it peaked

See May 24, 1969 on the timeline →
  1. #1Get BackThe Beatles & Billy Preston
  2. #2Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)The 5th Dimension
  3. #3Love (Can Make You Happy)Mercy
  4. #4HairThe Cowsills
  5. #5Oh Happy DayThe Edwin Hawkins' Singers feat. Dorothy Combs Morrison
  6. #6It's Your ThingThe Isley Brothers
  7. #7AtlantisDonovan
  8. #8The BoxerSimon & Garfunkel
  9. #9GitarzanRay Stevens
  10. #10These EyesThe Guess Who

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