Songs · Billboard Hot 100

A Fifth Of Beethoven

Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band

Entered May 29, 1976 · peaked at #1 on Oct 9, 1976 · 28 weeks on the chart, last seen Dec 4, 1976

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Record Power
52.4
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
1
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
10
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
28
May 1976 – December 1976

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
Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Bandprimary100%52.6

The top ten the week it peaked

See Oct 9, 1976 on the timeline →
  1. #1A Fifth Of BeethovenWalter Murphy & The Big Apple Band
  2. #2Play That Funky MusicWild Cherry
  3. #3LowdownBoz Scaggs
  4. #4Disco Duck (Part I)Rick Dees & His Cast Of Idiots
  5. #5If You Leave Me NowChicago
  6. #6Devil WomanCliff Richard
  7. #7Still The OneOrleans
  8. #8I'd Really Love To See You TonightEngland Dan & John Ford Coley
  9. #9(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your BootyKC And The Sunshine Band
  10. #10She's GoneDaryl Hall John Oates

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