Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Dee Dee Sharp

Charting Mar 3, 1962 → Dec 18, 1965 · 77 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 77 wk (7 crowns), UK Singles Chart 2 wk

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Image credits

Photo: Gamble Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
7 crowns
Longest reign 7 weeks (Apr–May 1962) · First crown Apr 1962
Global Music Power
3 crowns
19621965
Longest reign 3 weeks (Apr 1962) · First crown Apr 1962

Billboard Hot 100 · 77 wk UK Singles Chart · 2 wk Global Music Power · 77 wk

Peak Power: 2.85%; week of Jun 2, 1962
Career Power: 121; share-weeks
Crowns: 7; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 91; January 1962 – January 1963
Peak Five Years: 121; December 1960 – December 1965
Top-five weeks: 10; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 77; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 4.36%; week of Apr 21, 1962
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

10 records · 121 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
Mashed Potato TimeApple Music	#2May 1962	18	March 1962 – June 1962	40.0	39.9
Ride!Apple Music	#5December 1962	13	October 1962 – January 1963	22.6	22.3
Gravy (For My Mashed Potatoes)Apple Music	#9July 1962	10	June 1962 – August 1962	18.0	18.0
Do The BirdApple Music	#10April 1963	11	March 1963 – May 1963	17.6	17.3
Slow Twistinwith Chubby CheckerApple Music	#3April 1962	14	March 1962 – June 1962	10.2	30.9
Wild!Apple Music	#33November 1963	9	October 1963 – November 1963	6.8	6.7
Rock Me In The Cradle Of LoveApple Music	#43August 1963	7	June 1963 – August 1963	3.8	3.7
I Really Love YouApple Music	#78December 1965	7	November 1965 – December 1965	1.4	1.4
Where Did I Go WrongApple Music	#82February 1964	4	February 1964 – February 1964	0.7	0.7
Willyam, Willyam	#97February 1964	1	February 1964	0.1	0.1

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At their peak

1962 in music →

Dee Dee Sharp's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from January 1962 to January 1963. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.