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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Ella Fitzgerald portraitElla Fitzgerald

Charting May 23, 1958 → Jul 9, 1989 · 31 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 22 wk, UK Singles Chart 31 wk

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Peak Power
0.89%
week of Jun 2, 1960
Career Power
37
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
18
October 1959 – October 1960
Peak Five Years
32
January 1958 – January 1963
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
31
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.20%
week of May 23, 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 UK Singles Chart

7 records · 37 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#19912.5
Swingin' Shepherd Blues#1559.6
Desafinado#3864.9
Can't Buy Me Love#3454.6
But Not for Me#2534.3
How High the Moon#4610.8
Summertime#8220.4

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At their peak

1959 in music →

Ella Fitzgerald's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from October 1959 to October 1960. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Adam Faith153
  2. 2Cliff Richard And The Shadows134
  3. 3The Everly Brothers132
  4. 4Anthony Newley116
  5. 5Emile Ford and the Checkmates112
  6. 6Johnny And The Hurricanes101
  7. 7Jimmy Jones95
  8. 8Connie Francis94
  9. 9Johnny Preston92
  10. 10Lonnie Donegan88

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s.