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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Ben Colder

Charting Nov 24, 1962Nov 23, 1968 · 20 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 20 wk

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Peak Power
0.19%
week of Nov 5, 1966
Career Power
6
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
2
October 1962 – October 1963
Peak Five Years
4
November 1961 – November 1966
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
20
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.49%
week of Oct 29, 1966
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

5 records · 6 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
Almost Persuaded No. 2#5862.1
Don't Go Near The Eskimos#6261.9
Harper Valley P.T.A. (Later That Same Day)#6751.4
Still No. 2#9820.2
Detroit City No. 2#9010.2

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At their peak

1962 in music

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

  1. 1Chubby Checker103
  2. 2The Crystals90
  3. 3The Beach Boys85
  4. 4Brenda Lee78
  5. 5Bobby Vinton77
  6. 6Peter, Paul & Mary74
  7. 7Dion71
  8. 8The Orlons71
  9. 9Gene Pitney67
  10. 10Sam Cooke64

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.