Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Chet Atkins

Charting Sep 28, 1959 → Jul 24, 1965 · 19 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 19 wk, UK Singles Chart 2 wk

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Billboard Hot 100 · 19 wk UK Singles Chart · 2 wk Global Music Power · 21 wk

Peak Power: 0.25%; week of Nov 9, 1959
Career Power: 5; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 5; March 1959 – February 1960
Peak Five Years: 5; August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 19; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 0.68%; week of Oct 12, 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

4 records · 5 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
Boo Boo Stick BeatApple Music	#49October 1959	8	September 1959 – November 1959	3.4	3.3
One Mint JulepApple Music	#82February 1960	6	January 1960 – February 1960	1.1	1.0
TeensvilleApple Music	#73February 1960	3	February 1960 – February 1960	0.8	0.8
Yakety AxeApple Music	#98July 1965	2	July 1965 – July 1965	0.3	0.2

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At their peak

1959 in music →

Chet Atkins's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from March 1959 to February 1960. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s.