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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Dave King

Charting Feb 17, 1956Feb 7, 1958 · 22 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 22 wk

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Peak Power
1.43%
week of May 25, 1956
Career Power
35
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
30
January 1956 – December 1956
Peak Five Years
35
February 1953 – February 1958
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
22
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.25%
week of Apr 27, 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

4 records · 35 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
Memories Are Made of Thiswith the Keynotes#51517.9
You Can't Be True to Twowith the Keynotes#1198.5
The Story of My Life#2035.2
Christmas and You#2323.4

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At their peak

1956 in music

Dave King's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from January 1956 to December 1956. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Bill Haley And His Comets214
  2. 2Elvis Presley153
  3. 3Lonnie Donegan125
  4. 4Pat Boone94
  5. 5Winifred Atwell93
  6. 6Ronnie Hilton92
  7. 7Teresa Brewer82
  8. 8Nat King Cole79
  9. 9Perry Como76
  10. 10David Whitfield71

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.