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Ella Fitzgerald portraitElla Fitzgerald

Charting May 2, 1960Apr 20, 1963 · 22 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 22 wk, UK Singles Chart 31 wk

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Peak Power
0.79%
week of Jul 11, 1960
Career Power
14
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
13
September 1959 – September 1960
Peak Five Years
14
August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
22
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.48%
week of Jun 27, 1960
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

3 records · 14 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
Mack The Knife#271412.2
How High The Moon (Part 1)#7650.9
Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home#7530.7

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At their peak

1959 in music

Ella Fitzgerald'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 Anka132
  3. 3Connie Francis126
  4. 4The Everly Brothers113
  5. 5Bobby Darin107
  6. 6Brenda Lee100
  7. 7Johnny Preston89
  8. 8Fats Domino83
  9. 9Frankie Avalon83
  10. 10Jackie Wilson80

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.