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Della Reese portraitDella Reese

Charting Jan 5, 1959Sep 17, 1966 · 46 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 46 wk

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Peak Power
2.40%
week of Jan 11, 1960
Career Power
57
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
54
September 1959 – September 1960
Peak Five Years
57
August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks
7
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
46
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.48%
week of Nov 30, 1959
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

9 records · 57 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
Don't You Know#21838.2
Not One Minute More#161113.2
Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)#5672.4
The Most Beautiful Words#6751.3
And Now#6951.3
After Loving You#9520.3
It Was A Very Good Year#9920.2
Won'cha Come Home, Bill Bailey#9810.1
Sermonette#9910.1

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At their peak

1959 in music

Della Reese's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from September 1959 to September 1960. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Bobby Rydell135
  2. 2Paul Anka131
  3. 3Connie Francis129
  4. 4The Everly Brothers114
  5. 5Bobby Darin104
  6. 6Brenda Lee102
  7. 7Johnny Preston90
  8. 8Fats Domino83
  9. 9Jackie Wilson82
  10. 10Brook Benton81

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s.