Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Bobby Vee

Charting Apr 4, 1960 → Dec 5, 1970 · 189 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 189 wk, UK Singles Chart 121 wk (3 crowns)

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Image credits

Photo: Harry Pot for Anefo ]], CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

UK Singles Chart
3 crowns
Longest reign 3 weeks (Dec 1961 – Jan 1962) · First crown Dec 1961
Global Music Power
4 crowns
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Longest reign 3 weeks (Dec 1961 – Jan 1962) · First crown Dec 1961

Billboard Hot 100 · 189 wk UK Singles Chart · 121 wk Global Music Power · 218 wk

Peak Power: 2.65%; week of Jan 27, 1962
Career Power: 236; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 94; July 1961 – July 1962
Peak Five Years: 227; June 1960 – June 1965
Top-five weeks: 15; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 189; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.71%; week of Dec 25, 1961
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

33 records · 236 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.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
Run To HimApple Music	#2December 1961	15	November 1961 – February 1962	34.3	33.6
Take Good Care Of My BabyApple Music	#1September 1961	15	August 1961 – November 1961	32.4	31.9
Devil Or AngelApple Music	#6October 1960	19	August 1960 – December 1960	32.1	30.9
The Night Has A Thousand EyesApple Music	#3February 1963	14	December 1962 – March 1963	29.5	29.2
Rubber BallApple Music	#6January 1961	14	November 1960 – February 1961	26.7	26.7
CharmsApple Music	#13May 1963	10	March 1963 – June 1963	14.0	13.8
Sharing YouApple Music	#15July 1962	10	May 1962 – July 1962	12.8	12.7
Please Don't Ask About BarbaraApple Music	#15April 1962	11	February 1962 – May 1962	12.2	12.1
Punish HerApple Music	#20October 1962	8	September 1962 – October 1962	9.0	8.9
My Girl/Hey GirlApple Music	#35May 1968	9	April 1968 – June 1968	6.6	6.6
Stayin' InApple Music	#33March 1961	7	February 1961 – March 1961	4.9	5.3
Be True To YourselfApple Music	#34July 1963	7	June 1963 – August 1963	4.9	4.8
Yesterday And You (Armen's Theme)	#55December 1963	7	November 1963 – December 1963	2.9	2.8
Hickory, Dick And DocApple Music	#63July 1964	8	May 1964 – July 1964	2.4	2.3
Walkin' With My AngelApple Music	#53January 1962	9	November 1961 – January 1962	1.9	2.9
I'll Make You Minewith The EligiblesApple Music	#52April 1964	8	February 1964 – April 1964	1.7	3.1
How Many TearsApple Music	#63June 1961	4	May 1961 – June 1961	1.3	1.3
More Than I Can SayApple Music	#61March 1961	5	February 1961 – March 1961	1.0	1.3
(There'll Come A Day When) Ev'ry Little Bit Hurts	#84January 1965	5	December 1964 – January 1965	0.9	0.8
Do What You Gotta DoApple Music	#83September 1968	4	August 1968 – September 1968	0.8	0.8
Keep On TryingApple Music	#85June 1965	5	May 1965 – June 1965	0.8	0.8
Stranger In Your ArmsApple Music	#83February 1964	3	January 1964 – February 1964	0.6	0.5
Sweet Sweetheart	#88December 1970	3	November 1970 – December 1970	0.4	0.4
I'm Into Lookin' For Someone To Love MeApple Music	#98December 1968	3	December 1968 – January 1969	0.4	0.4
Let's Call It A Day Girl	#92August 1969	2	August 1969 – August 1969	0.3	0.3
What Do You Want?Apple Music	#93April 1960	2	April 1960 – April 1960	0.3	0.3
A Letter From BettyApple Music	#85July 1963	2	June 1963 – July 1963	0.2	0.3
Since I Met You Baby	#81September 1960	1	September 1960	0.2	0.2
Pretend You Don't See Her	#97December 1964	1	December 1964	0.1	0.1
Never Love A Robin	#99December 1963	1	December 1963	0.1	0.1
Cross My Heart	#99February 1965	1	February 1965	0.1	0.1
Someday (When I'm Gone From You)with The CricketsApple Music	#99September 1962	2	September 1962 – September 1962	0.1	0.2
I Can't Say Goodbye	#92February 1962	1	February 1962	0.1	0.2

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At their peak

1961 in music →

Bobby Vee's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from July 1961 to July 1962. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s.