Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Floyd Cramer

Charting Oct 10, 1960 → Mar 9, 1963 · 78 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 78 wk (3 crowns), UK Singles Chart 24 wk

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Image credits

Photo: Jack de Nijs for Anefo / Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
3 crowns
19601963
Longest reign 3 weeks (Dec 1960) · First crown Dec 1960

Billboard Hot 100 · 78 wk UK Singles Chart · 24 wk Global Music Power · 82 wk

Peak Power: 2.40%; week of Jan 23, 1961
Career Power: 108; share-weeks
Crowns: 3; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 94; October 1960 – October 1961
Peak Five Years: 108; August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks: 10; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 78; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.52%; week of Dec 5, 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

10 records · 108 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
Last DateApple Music	#2November 1960	20	October 1960 – February 1961	45.0	43.8
On The ReboundApple Music	#4April 1961	13	March 1961 – May 1961	28.8	28.2
San Antonio RoseApple Music	#8July 1961	12	June 1961 – August 1961	19.5	19.3
Chattanooga Choo ChooApple Music	#36March 1962	8	January 1962 – March 1962	5.3	5.2
JavaApple Music	#49February 1963	11	December 1962 – March 1963	5.2	5.1
Your Last GoodbyeApple Music	#63October 1961	7	September 1961 – November 1961	2.2	2.2
Hot Pepper	#63July 1962	4	July 1962 – July 1962	1.3	1.3
Lovesick BluesApple Music	#87April 1962	3	April 1962 – April 1962	0.5	0.5
Let's Go	#90February 1962	2	February 1962 – February 1962	0.2	0.3
Hang OnApple Music	#95October 1961	2	October 1961 – October 1961	0.2	0.3

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At their peak

1960 in music →

Floyd Cramer's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from October 1960 to October 1961. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.