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Dave Brubeck portraitDave Brubeck

Also credited as The Dave Brubeck Quartet

Charting Sep 11, 1961Mar 16, 1963 · 25 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 25 wk, UK Singles Chart 30 wk

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Peak Power
0.68%
week of Nov 13, 1961
Career Power
13
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
12
January 1961 – January 1962
Peak Five Years
13
August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
25
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.56%
week of Oct 9, 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

3 records · 13 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
Take Five#251210.4
Bossa Nova U.S.A.#6971.6
Unsquare Dance#7461.2

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At their peak

1961 in music

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

  1. 1Chubby Checker123
  2. 2Connie Francis109
  3. 3Brenda Lee109
  4. 4Elvis Presley106
  5. 5The Shirelles102
  6. 6Ricky Nelson86
  7. 7Bobby Vee78
  8. 8Roy Orbison77
  9. 9Del Shannon77
  10. 10Brook Benton77

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.