Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Chuck Berry

Charting Aug 4, 1958 → Jan 3, 2026 · 157 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 157 wk (2 crowns), UK Singles Chart 104 wk (2 crowns)

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Image credits

Photo: Pablo Vaz, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
2 crowns
Longest reign 2 weeks (Oct 1972) · First crown Oct 1972
UK Singles Chart
2 crowns
Longest reign 2 weeks (Dec 1972) · First crown Dec 1972
Global Music Power
1 crown
19572026
First crown Nov 1972

Billboard Hot 100 · 157 wk UK Singles Chart · 104 wk Global Music Power · 203 wk

All songs Without holiday songs New music only

Peak Power: 1.98%; week of Nov 18, 1972
Career Power: 165; share-weeks
Crowns: 2; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 44; February 1964 – January 1965
Peak Five Years: 49; February 1960 – January 1965
Top-five weeks: 3; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 157; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.52%; week of Oct 28, 1972
Comebacks: 1; Oct 1972, after 8 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

21 records · 165 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 Rudolph RunApple Music	#10January 2021	31	December 1958 – January 2026	41.4	39.0
My Ding-A-LingApple Music	#1October 1972	17	August 1972 – November 1972	30.9	30.9
No Particular Place To GoApple Music	#10July 1964	11	May 1964 – August 1964	16.1	15.5
You Never Can TellApple Music	#14September 1964	9	August 1964 – September 1964	11.3	10.9
CarolApple Music	#18September 1958	10	August 1958 – October 1958	10.8	10.6
Nadine (Is It You?)Apple Music	#23May 1964	10	March 1964 – May 1964	10.6	9.4
Reelin' & RockinApple Music	#27February 1973	13	December 1972 – February 1973	10.6	10.6
Almost GrownApple Music	#32May 1959	13	March 1959 – June 1959	9.9	9.6
Back In The U.S.A.Apple Music	#37July 1959	8	June 1959 – August 1959	4.8	4.6
Sweet Little Rock And RollerApple Music	#47December 1958	9	November 1958 – January 1959	4.3	4.1
Promised LandApple Music	#41January 1965	7	December 1964 – January 1965	4.3	4.2
Too Pooped To Pop ("Casey")Apple Music	#42February 1960	6	February 1960 – March 1960	3.1	3.1
Little MarieApple Music	#54November 1964	6	October 1964 – November 1964	2.1	2.0
Anthony BoyApple Music	#60February 1959	5	February 1959 – March 1959	1.6	1.6
Let It RockApple Music	#64February 1960	8	February 1960 – March 1960	1.5	1.9
Dear DadApple Music	#95April 1965	4	April 1965 – April 1965	0.5	0.5
Little QueenieApple Music	#80May 1959	4	April 1959 – May 1959	0.5	0.7
Joe Joe Gunne	#83November 1958	5	November 1958 – December 1958	0.4	0.8
Merry Christmas BabyApple Music	#71December 1958	3	December 1958 – December 1958	0.3	0.7
Johnny B. Goode	#80August 1958	1	August 1958	0.2	0.2
Beautiful Delilah	#81August 1958	1	August 1958	0.2	0.2

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At their peak

1964 in music →

Chuck Berry's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from February 1964 to January 1965. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.