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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Billy Williams

Charting Aug 2, 1957Oct 18, 1957 · 9 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 14 wk, UK Singles Chart 9 wk

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Peak Power
0.94%
week of Sep 20, 1957
Career Power
14
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
14
October 1956 – October 1957
Peak Five Years
14
November 1952 – November 1957
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
9
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.84%
week of Aug 30, 1957
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 · 14 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
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter#22913.9

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At their peak

1956 in music

Billy Williams's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from October 1956 to October 1957. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Elvis Presley208
  2. 2Pat Boone165
  3. 3Johnnie Ray157
  4. 4Lonnie Donegan157
  5. 5Guy Mitchell141
  6. 6Tommy Steele and the Steelmen133
  7. 7Bill Haley And His Comets109
  8. 8Harry Belafonte106
  9. 9Little Richard104
  10. 10Frankie Vaughan91

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.