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Al Hirt portraitAl Hirt

Also credited as Al (He's the King) Hirt

Charting Jan 4, 1964Jan 27, 1968 · 55 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 55 wk

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Peak Power
1.96%
week of Apr 4, 1964
Career Power
61
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
55
November 1963 – November 1964
Peak Five Years
61
February 1963 – January 1968
Top-five weeks
4
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
55
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.33%
week of Feb 29, 1964
Comebacks
0
none detected

Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the chart's own positions. How it works →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Songs on the Billboard Hot 100

8 records · 61 share-weeks of Career Power

Power contributed is what each song earned this artist: their weekly Power Share, split across their songs (a featured credit takes its reduced share). Record Power is the song's own figure, the same for every artist on it. Bar length compares songs within this list.

SongPeakWeeksPower
Java#41632.1
Cotton Candy#151215.6
Sugar Lips#3076.4
Fancy Pants#4773.5
Al's Place#5772.4
Up Above My Head (I Hear Music In The Air)#8550.9
The Silence (Il Silenzio)#9620.3
Keep The Ball Rollin#10010.1

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At their peak

1963 in music

Al Hirt's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from November 1963 to November 1964. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1The Beatles233
  2. 2The Dave Clark Five115
  3. 3The Beach Boys115
  4. 4The Four Seasons104
  5. 5Jan & Dean87
  6. 6The Impressions83
  7. 7Lesley Gore79
  8. 8Bobby Vinton79
  9. 9Roy Orbison67
  10. 10The Kingsmen65

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.