Artists · UK Singles Chart

Bobby Darin

Charting Aug 1, 1958 → Apr 8, 1979 · 147 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · top artist of the week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 292 wk (8 at #1), UK Singles Chart 147 wk (2 at #1)

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Photo: General Artists Corporation (management)/photographer: "Bruno of Hollywood", Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Billboard Hot 100 · 292 wk UK Singles Chart · 147 wk Global Music Power · 318 wk

Peak Power: 3.21%; week of Nov 27, 1959
Career Power: 325; share-weeks
Weeks at #1: 2; weeks as the top artist

Peak Year: 146; June 1959 – May 1960
Peak Five Years: 299; August 1958 – August 1963
Top-five weeks: 26; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 147; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 4.19%; week of Oct 2, 1959
Comebacks: 1; November 1966

Comebacks (thresholds from `config/scoring.json`)
Kind	Trough began	Returned	Trough weeks	Longest absence	Prior peak	Return share
After absence	Jan 31, 1963	Nov 24, 1966	199	164	3.21%	1.18%

Computed from stored weekly power rows (config version 4, Sep 21, 2026).

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Songs on the UK Singles Chart

18 records · 325 share-weeks of Career Power

Power contributed is the share of each week's Power Share this song earned the artist; a featured credit earns its reduced share. Bar length compares songs within this list.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower
Dream LoverApple Music	#1July 1959	19	May 1959 – October 1959	57.0
Mack The KnifeApple Music	#1October 1959	18	September 1959 – March 1960	46.7
ThingsApple Music	#2September 1962	17	July 1962 – November 1962	39.5
MultiplicationApple Music	#5January 1962	13	December 1961 – March 1962	30.0
Lazy RiverApple Music	#2April 1961	13	March 1961 – June 1961	27.2
La Mer (Beyond the Sea)	#8February 1960	13	January 1960 – April 1960	23.6
ClementineApple Music	#8April 1960	12	March 1960 – June 1960	23.0
If I Were A CarpenterApple Music	#9November 1966	12	October 1966 – December 1966	22.2
You Must Have Been A Beautiful BabyApple Music	#10November 1961	11	October 1961 – December 1961	18.0
Splish SplashApple Music	#18August 1958	7	August 1958 – September 1958	11.2
Nature Boy	#24July 1961	7	July 1961 – August 1961	8.0
If A Man Answers	#24October 1962	6	October 1962 – November 1962	5.9
Eighteen Yellow Roses	#37August 1963	4	July 1963 – August 1963	3.3
Baby Face	#40December 1962	4	November 1962 – December 1962	3.2
Queen Of The HopApple Music	#24January 1959	2	January 1959 – January 1959	3.0
Bill Bailey	#34July 1960	2	June 1960 – July 1960	2.2
Come September	#50October 1961	1	October 1961	0.4
Dream Lover/Mack the Knife	#64April 1979	1	April 1979	0.4

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