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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Dick James

Charting Jan 20, 1956Feb 1, 1957 · 13 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 13 wk

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Peak Power
0.73%
week of Feb 1, 1957
Career Power
17
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
14
February 1956 – February 1957
Peak Five Years
17
November 1952 – November 1957
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
13
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.14%
week of Jan 25, 1957
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

2 records · 17 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
Robin Hood/The Ballad of Davy Crockettwith Stephen James and His Chums#1499.3
The Garden of Eden#1847.8

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At their peak

1956 in music

Dick James's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from February 1956 to February 1957. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Bill Haley And His Comets211
  2. 2Elvis Presley179
  3. 3Lonnie Donegan124
  4. 4Pat Boone111
  5. 5Ronnie Hilton101
  6. 6Winifred Atwell94
  7. 7Teresa Brewer82
  8. 8Johnnie Ray78
  9. 9Frankie Laine76
  10. 10Perry Como76

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.