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Barrett Strong portraitBarrett Strong

Charting Feb 1, 1960May 23, 1960 · 17 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 17 wk, UK Singles Chart 3 wk

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Peak Power
0.99%
week of May 9, 1960
Career Power
17
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
17
June 1959 – May 1960
Peak Five Years
17
August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
17
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.68%
week of Apr 18, 1960
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

1 song · 17 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
Money (That's what I want)#231716.7

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At their peak

1959 in music

Barrett Strong's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from June 1959 to May 1960. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Paul Anka141
  2. 2Bobby Darin130
  3. 3Connie Francis115
  4. 4Frankie Avalon112
  5. 5Bobby Rydell106
  6. 6Lloyd Price105
  7. 7Fabian85
  8. 8Fats Domino83
  9. 9Brook Benton81
  10. 10The Everly Brothers81

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.