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Barbara Lynn portraitBarbara Lynn

Charting Jun 16, 1962Feb 24, 1968 · 54 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 54 wk

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Peak Power
1.29%
week of Sep 1, 1962
Career Power
28
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
23
March 1962 – March 1963
Peak Five Years
28
January 1960 – January 1965
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
54
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.81%
week of Aug 11, 1962
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

9 records · 28 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
You'll Lose A Good Thing#81318.6
Second Fiddle Girl#6382.2
Oh! Baby (We Got A Good Thing Goin')#6982.1
(I Cried at) Laura's Wedding#6881.9
You're Gonna Need Me#6561.8
This Is The Thanks I Get#6520.7
Don't Be Cruel#9340.6
Don't Spread It Around#9330.4
It's Better To Have It#9520.3

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At their peak

1962 in music

Barbara Lynn's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from March 1962 to March 1963. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Elvis Presley115
  2. 2The Four Seasons100
  3. 3Chubby Checker100
  4. 4Ray Charles94
  5. 5Dee Dee Sharp90
  6. 6Dion87
  7. 7Brenda Lee86
  8. 8Sam Cooke74
  9. 9Mary Wells70
  10. 10Connie Francis69

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.