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Don Lang

Also credited as Don Lang and His Frantic Five

Charting Nov 5, 1955Mar 12, 1960 · 18 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 18 wk

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Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart combined, weighted · UK Singles Chart data ends Sep 18, 2026 · How it works

Each week an artist's share is the weighted mean of their Power Share across Billboard Hot 100 ×1 and UK Singles Chart ×0.45 (weights ∝ √population, US = 1). The divisor is every chart's weight, so a number one is worth the same share in any era — and a week before every chart exists, or after one's data ends, sums to less than 100.

UK Singles Chart data runs to Sep 18, 2026; later weeks combine the Billboard Hot 100 only, so their shares — and the most recent years' Era Power — are lower than a full week's would be.

Peak Power
0.55%
week of Jul 26, 1958
Career Power
12
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
9
August 1957 – August 1958
Peak Five Years
12
March 1955 – March 1960
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
18
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.99%
week of Jun 14, 1958
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 Global Music Power

4 records · 12 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. On this combined chart each song's figures are its figures on each market, weighted as the chart weights them, so the list still adds up to Career Power; peaks and weeks are shown per market.

SongPeakWeeksPower
Witch Doctor#5118.6
Cloudburst#1642.5
School Day (Ring! Ring! Goes the Bell)#2620.9
Sink the Bismarck#4310.3

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At their peak

Don Lang's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from August 1957 to August 1958. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Elvis Presley74
  2. 2Pat Boone65
  3. 3Paul Anka43
  4. 4Lonnie Donegan35
  5. 5The Crickets34
  6. 6Frankie Vaughan32
  7. 7The Everly Brothers32
  8. 8Perry Como29
  9. 9Harry Belafonte27
  10. 10Petula Clark27

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.