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Ernie K-Doe portraitErnie K-Doe

Charting Mar 27, 1961Feb 24, 1962 · 24 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 24 wk, UK Singles Chart 14 wk

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Peak Power
2.10%
week of May 29, 1961
Career Power
38
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
38
February 1961 – February 1962
Peak Five Years
38
August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks
7
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
24
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.58%
week of May 22, 1961
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

5 records · 38 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
Mother-In-Law#11434.4
Te-Ta-Te-Ta-Ta#5351.6
I Cried My Last Tear#6951.1
A Certain Girl#7140.8
Popeye Joe#9910.1

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At their peak

1961 in music

Ernie K-Doe's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from February 1961 to February 1962. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Chubby Checker134
  2. 2Elvis Presley107
  3. 3Brenda Lee107
  4. 4Connie Francis103
  5. 5The Shirelles91
  6. 6Brook Benton86
  7. 7Ricky Nelson81
  8. 8Del Shannon78
  9. 9Bobby Vee76
  10. 10Roy Orbison76

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.