Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Burl Ives

Charting Dec 18, 1961 → Jan 3, 2026 · 110 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 110 wk, UK Singles Chart 34 wk

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Billboard Hot 100 · 110 wk UK Singles Chart · 34 wk Global Music Power · 115 wk

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Peak Power: 1.70%; week of Jan 7, 2023
Career Power: 184; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 55; December 1961 – December 1962
Peak Five Years: 86; December 2020 – December 2025
Top-five weeks: 1; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 110; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.90%; week of Dec 24, 2022
Comebacks: 1; Jan 2020, after 57 quiet years

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

9 records · 184 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
A Holly Jolly ChristmasApple Music	#4January 2020	50	January 2017 – January 2026	123.4	113.7
A Little Bitty TearApple Music	#9February 1962	14	December 1961 – March 1962	24.4	23.9
Funny Way Of Laughin	#10May 1962	11	April 1962 – June 1962	17.4	17.2
Call Me Mr. In-BetweenApple Music	#19August 1962	9	July 1962 – September 1962	9.2	9.1
Mary Ann RegretsApple Music	#39December 1962	7	November 1962 – December 1962	3.8	3.8
Pearly Shells (Popo O Ewa)Apple Music	#60October 1964	6	September 1964 – October 1964	2.1	2.1
True Love Goes On And OnApple Music	#66January 1964	6	December 1963 – February 1964	1.8	1.7
This Is All I AskApple Music	#67August 1963	5	August 1963 – August 1963	1.3	1.3
The Same Old HurtApple Music	#91January 1963	2	January 1963 – February 1963	0.3	0.3

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At their peak

1961 in music →

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

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.