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Billy Joe Royal portraitBilly Joe Royal

Charting Jul 3, 1965 → Jun 24, 1978 · 65 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 65 wk, UK Singles Chart 4 wk

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Billboard Hot 100 · 65 wkUK Singles Chart · 4 wkGlobal Music Power · 65 wk
Peak Power
1.60%
week of Nov 20, 1965
Career Power
64
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
40
June 1965 – June 1966
Peak Five Years
63
January 1965 – January 1970
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
65
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.69%
week of Aug 28, 1965
Comebacks
1
Dec 1969

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

9 records · 64 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
Down In The Boondocks#91319.6
Cherry Hill Park#151519.6
I Knew You When#141114.7
I've Got To Be Somebody#3885.0
Hush#5283.4
Under The Boardwalk#8240.7
Heart's Desire#8830.5
Tulsa#8630.5
Campfire Girls#9120.3

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At their peak

1965 in music →

Billy Joe Royal's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from June 1965 to June 1966. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1The Beatles135
  2. 2The Rolling Stones119
  3. 3Herman's Hermits118
  4. 4Gary Lewis And The Playboys94
  5. 5The Beach Boys89
  6. 6The Righteous Brothers87
  7. 7The Dave Clark Five86
  8. 8The Supremes85
  9. 9The Byrds79
  10. 10The Lovin' Spoonful74

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s.