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Al Hirt

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

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

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 55 wk

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Photo: Ron Kroon for Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Billboard Hot 100 · 55 wk Global Music Power · 55 wk

Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart combined, weighted · UK Singles Chart data ends Sep 18, 2026 · How it works

Each week an artist's share is the weighted mean of their Power Share across Billboard Hot 100 ×1 and UK Singles Chart ×0.45 (weights ∝ √population, US = 1). The divisor is every chart's weight, so a number one is worth the same share in any era — and a week before every chart exists, or after one's data ends, sums to less than 100.

UK Singles Chart data runs to Sep 18, 2026; later weeks combine the Billboard Hot 100 only, so their shares — and the most recent years' Era Power — are lower than a full week's would be.

Peak Power: 1.35%; week of Apr 4, 1964
Career Power: 42; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 38; November 1963 – November 1964
Peak Five Years: 42; February 1963 – January 1968
Top-five weeks: 3; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 55; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 2.30%; 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 Global Music Power

8 records · 42 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. On this combined chart each song's figures are its figures on each market, weighted as the chart weights them, so the list still adds up to Career Power; peaks and weeks are shown per market.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
Java	#4	16	January 1964 – April 1964	22.1	20.7
Cotton CandyApple Music	#15	12	April 1964 – June 1964	10.7	10.2
Sugar Lips	#30	7	July 1964 – August 1964	4.4	4.3
Fancy Pants	#47	7	January 1965 – February 1965	2.4	2.4
Al's Place	#57	7	April 1965 – May 1965	1.6	1.6
Up Above My Head (I Hear Music In The Air)	#85	5	October 1964 – November 1964	0.6	0.6
The Silence (Il Silenzio)	#96	2	September 1965 – September 1965	0.2	0.2
Keep The Ball Rollin	#100	1	January 1968	0.1	0.1

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At their peak

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

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.