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Cyril Stapleton

Also credited as Cyril Stapleton And His Orchestra and Cyril Stapleton Orchestra

Charting May 27, 1955Aug 16, 1957 · 27 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 14 wk, UK Singles Chart 27 wk

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Peak Power
1.10%
week of Dec 2, 1955
Career Power
40
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
29
July 1955 – June 1956
Peak Five Years
40
November 1952 – November 1957
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
27
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.95%
week of Apr 6, 1956
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 UK Singles Chart

5 records · 40 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.

SongPeakWeeksPower
Blue Star (the Medic Theme)with Julie Dawn#21217.3
Elephant Tango#1947.3
Forgotten Dreams#2756.9
The Happy Whistlerfeat. Desmond Lane#2244.5
The Italian Theme#1823.6

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At their peak

1955 in music

Cyril Stapleton's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from July 1955 to June 1956. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1David Whitfield126
  2. 2Bill Haley And His Comets118
  3. 3Jimmy Young99
  4. 4Slim Whitman96
  5. 5Frank Sinatra96
  6. 6Frankie Laine87
  7. 7Winifred Atwell79
  8. 8Alma Cogan77
  9. 9Lonnie Donegan72
  10. 10Ruby Murray66

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.