Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Drift Away

Dobie Gray

Entered Feb 24, 1973 · peaked at #5 on May 12, 1973 · 21 weeks on the chart, last seen Jul 14, 1973

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Record Power
34.0
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
4
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
21
February 1973 – July 1973

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 the song 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
Dobie Grayprimary100%34.0

The top ten the week it peaked

See May 12, 1973 on the timeline →
  1. #1Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak TreeDawn feat. Tony Orlando
  2. #2You Are The Sunshine Of My LifeStevie Wonder
  3. #3Little WillyThe Sweet
  4. #4The Cisco KidWar
  5. #5Drift AwayDobie Gray
  6. #6Stuck In The Middle With YouStealers Wheel
  7. #7FrankensteinEdgar Winter Group
  8. #8The Night The Lights Went Out In GeorgiaVicki Lawrence
  9. #9DanielElton John
  10. #10The Twelfth Of NeverDonny Osmond

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