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Songs · Billboard Hot 100

The City Of New Orleans

Arlo Guthrie

Entered Jul 29, 1972 · 16 weeks on the chart, last seen Nov 11, 1972

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Record Power
18.8
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#18
1 week there · Oct 28, 1972
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
16
July 1972 – November 1972

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
Arlo Guthrieprimary100%18.8

The top ten the week it peaked

See Oct 28, 1972 on the timeline →
  1. #1My Ding-A-LingChuck Berry
  2. #2Burning LoveElvis Presley
  3. #3Nights In White SatinThe Moody Blues
  4. #4Use MeBill Withers
  5. #5I Can See Clearly NowJohnny Nash
  6. #6Freddie's Dead (Theme From "Superfly")Curtis Mayfield
  7. #7Garden PartyRick Nelson And The Stone Canyon Band
  8. #8BenMichael Jackson
  9. #9Everybody Plays The FoolThe Main Ingredient
  10. #10Good Time Charlie's Got The BluesDanny O'Keefe

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