Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Bert Kaempfert

Charting Nov 14, 1960 → Oct 15, 1966 · 87 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 87 wk (5 crowns), UK Singles Chart 10 wk

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Honours

Billboard Hot 100
Artist of the Week
5 crownsLongest reign 5 weeks: Dec 26, 1960 – Jan 23, 1961First crown: Dec 26, 1960

Billboard Hot 100 · 87 wk UK Singles Chart · 10 wk Global Music Power · 91 wk

Peak Power: 2.47%; week of Feb 13, 1961
Career Power: 93; share-weeks
Crowns: 5; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 53; September 1960 – September 1961
Peak Five Years: 90; September 1960 – September 1965
Top-five weeks: 8; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 87; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.59%; week of Jan 23, 1961
Comebacks: 1; March 1965

Comebacks (thresholds from `config/scoring.json`)
Kind	Trough began	Returned	Trough weeks	Longest absence	Prior peak	Return share
After absence	Jun 26, 1961	Mar 20, 1965	194	133	2.47%	1.09%

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

11 records · 93 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.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
Wonderland By Night	#1January 1961	17	November 1960 – March 1961	43.7	42.6
Red Roses For A Blue Lady	#11March 1965	13	January 1965 – April 1965	21.0	20.7
Three O'Clock In The Morning	#33June 1965	8	May 1965 – June 1965	6.2	6.1
Tenderly	#31April 1961	7	March 1961 – May 1961	5.8	5.7
Afrikaan Beat	#42March 1962	10	January 1962 – March 1962	5.6	5.5
Moon Over Naples	#59August 1965	10	July 1965 – September 1965	3.1	3.1
Bye Bye BluesApple Music	#54February 1966	7	January 1966 – March 1966	2.9	2.8
Now And Forever	#48September 1961	7	July 1961 – September 1961	2.6	2.5
That Happy Feeling	#67June 1962	6	May 1962 – June 1962	1.4	1.4
Cerveza	#73March 1961	6	February 1961 – March 1961	0.9	1.2
I Can't Give You Anything But Love	#100October 1966	1	October 1966	0.1	0.1

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At their peak

1960 in music →

Bert Kaempfert's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from September 1960 to September 1961. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.