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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Big Sambo and The House Wreckers

Charting Mar 10, 1962Apr 21, 1962 · 7 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 7 wk

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Peak Power
0.11%
week of Apr 21, 1962
Career Power
1
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
1
April 1961 – April 1962
Peak Five Years
1
August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
7
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.28%
week of Apr 14, 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

1 song · 1 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
The Rains Came#7471.3

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At their peak

1961 in music

Big Sambo and The House Wreckers's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from April 1961 to April 1962. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Chubby Checker126
  2. 2Brenda Lee110
  3. 3Connie Francis106
  4. 4Elvis Presley98
  5. 5Ricky Nelson97
  6. 6Roy Orbison93
  7. 7Bobby Vee81
  8. 8Dion76
  9. 9The Shirelles75
  10. 10Gene McDaniels73

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.