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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Bill Black's Combo

Charting Nov 30, 1959Jul 27, 1968 · 131 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 131 wk, UK Singles Chart 8 wk

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Peak Power
1.78%
week of May 23, 1960
Career Power
128
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
76
December 1959 – December 1960
Peak Five Years
126
November 1959 – October 1964
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
131
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.75%
week of Apr 25, 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

18 records · 128 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
White Silver Sands#91425.7
Don't Be Cruel#111320.2
Smokie - Part 2#171214.9
Josephine#181013.4
Blue Tango#161012.8
Hearts Of Stone#2088.9
Twist-Her#2698.7
Ole Buttermilk Sky#2586.3
Movin#4174.2
Monkey-Shine#4763.3
Do It - Rat Now#5183.3
Comin' On#6751.4
So What#7881.4
Turn On Your Love Light#8261.2
Little Queenie#7340.9
Tequila#9130.5
-twistin'-White Silver Sands#9220.3
Honky Train#9220.2

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At their peak

1959 in music

Bill Black's Combo's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from December 1959 to December 1960. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Connie Francis157
  2. 2Brenda Lee140
  3. 3Bobby Rydell128
  4. 4The Everly Brothers124
  5. 5Paul Anka104
  6. 6Jackie Wilson101
  7. 7Brook Benton88
  8. 8Johnny Preston85
  9. 9Fats Domino81
  10. 10Bobby Darin77

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s.