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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Billy May

Charting Apr 27, 1956Jun 29, 1956 · 10 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 10 wk

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Peak Power
1.41%
week of Jun 29, 1956
Career Power
22
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
22
July 1955 – June 1956
Peak Five Years
22
November 1952 – November 1957
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
10
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.73%
week of May 18, 1956
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 UK Singles Chart

1 song · 22 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
Main Title Theme from 'Man with the Golden Arm#91021.7

At their peak

1955 in music

Billy May's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from July 1955 to June 1956. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1David Whitfield127
  2. 2Bill Haley And His Comets121
  3. 3Frank Sinatra98
  4. 4Slim Whitman98
  5. 5Jimmy Young96
  6. 6Frankie Laine86
  7. 7Winifred Atwell81
  8. 8Lonnie Donegan75
  9. 9Alma Cogan74
  10. 10Ruby Murray64

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.