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Bo Diddley portraitBo Diddley

Charting Jul 6, 1959Mar 11, 1967 · 40 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 40 wk, UK Singles Chart 11 wk

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Peak Power
0.89%
week of Nov 16, 1959
Career Power
21
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
15
April 1959 – April 1960
Peak Five Years
20
August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
40
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.83%
week of Oct 26, 1959
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

5 records · 21 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
Say Man#201213.1
You Can't Judge A Book By The Cover#48104.5
Crackin Up#6251.2
Road Runner#7561.1
Ooh Baby#8871.1

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At their peak

1959 in music

Bo Diddley's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from April 1959 to April 1960. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Paul Anka132
  2. 2Bobby Darin131
  3. 3Frankie Avalon122
  4. 4Lloyd Price111
  5. 5Connie Francis104
  6. 6Fabian102
  7. 7Brook Benton91
  8. 8Bobby Rydell87
  9. 9The Everly Brothers84
  10. 10Fats Domino84

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s.