Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Fabian

Charting Jan 12, 1959 → Nov 7, 1960 · 65 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 65 wk (2 crowns), UK Singles Chart 1 wk

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Image credits

Photo: General Artists Corporation (management), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
2 crowns
19591960
First crown Dec 1959

Billboard Hot 100 · 65 wk UK Singles Chart · 1 wk Global Music Power · 65 wk

Peak Power: 2.52%; week of Jan 25, 1960
Career Power: 112; share-weeks
Crowns: 2; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 102; April 1959 – April 1960
Peak Five Years: 112; August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks: 6; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 65; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 4.28%; week of Dec 21, 1959
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

10 records · 112 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.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
TigerApple Music	#3July 1959	13	June 1959 – September 1959	27.3	26.8
Turn Me LooseApple Music	#9May 1959	13	March 1959 – June 1959	24.5	24.0
Hound Dog ManApple Music	#9December 1959	15	November 1959 – February 1960	24.2	23.7
This Friendly WorldApple Music	#12December 1959	13	November 1959 – February 1960	11.4	17.1
I'm A ManApple Music	#31February 1959	10	January 1959 – March 1959	7.4	7.3
About This Thing Called LoveApple Music	#31March 1960	7	February 1960 – April 1960	6.0	6.1
Come On And Get MeApple Music	#29October 1959	8	September 1959 – October 1959	5.5	5.5
String AlongApple Music	#39March 1960	8	February 1960 – April 1960	3.9	5.2
Got The FeelingApple Music	#54September 1959	5	September 1959 – October 1959	1.4	2.1
Kissin' And TwistinApple Music	#91November 1960	2	October 1960 – November 1960	0.3	0.3

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At their peak

1959 in music →

Fabian's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from April 1959 to April 1960. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s.