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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Bo Diddley portraitBo Diddley

Charting Oct 10, 1963Aug 14, 2005 · 11 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
0.42%
week of Nov 14, 1963
Career Power
9
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
5
November 1962 – November 1963
Peak Five Years
8
April 1960 – April 1965
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
11
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.12%
week of Oct 17, 1963
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

3 records · 9 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
Pretty Thing#3465.2
Hey Good Lookin#3943.2
Bo Diddley/I'm a Man#9910.1

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At their peak

1962 in music

Bo Diddley's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from November 1962 to November 1963. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Frank Ifield154
  2. 2The Beatles150
  3. 3Cliff Richard150
  4. 4The Shadows128
  5. 5Billy Fury105
  6. 6Gerry And The Pacemakers100
  7. 7Del Shannon95
  8. 8Roy Orbison91
  9. 9Brenda Lee90
  10. 10Tornados83

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s.