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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Edmund Hockridge

Charting Feb 17, 1956Sep 28, 1956 · 18 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 18 wk

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Peak Power
1.31%
week of Mar 30, 1956
Career Power
35
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
35
October 1955 – September 1956
Peak Five Years
35
November 1952 – November 1957
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
18
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.55%
week of Mar 2, 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

3 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
Young and Foolish#10919.5
By the Fountains of Rome#17510.1
No Other Love#2445.8

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At their peak

1955 in music

Edmund Hockridge's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from October 1955 to September 1956. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Bill Haley And His Comets175
  2. 2Pat Boone104
  3. 3Lonnie Donegan103
  4. 4David Whitfield99
  5. 5Winifred Atwell94
  6. 6Elvis Presley92
  7. 7Ronnie Hilton81
  8. 8Teresa Brewer75
  9. 9Frank Sinatra70
  10. 10Hilltoppers64

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.