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Fontella Bass portraitFontella Bass

Charting Feb 6, 1965Aug 27, 1966 · 40 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 40 wk, UK Singles Chart 12 wk

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Peak Power
1.71%
week of Dec 18, 1965
Career Power
35
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
33
February 1965 – February 1966
Peak Five Years
35
September 1961 – August 1966
Top-five weeks
3
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
40
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.17%
week of Nov 20, 1965
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

6 records · 35 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
Rescue Me#41325.0
Recovery#3784.2
Don't Mess Up A Good Thingwith Bobby McClure#33113.8
I Surrender#7861.3
You'll Miss Me (When I'm Gone)with Bobby McClure#9120.2
Safe And Sound#10010.1

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At their peak

1965 in music

Fontella Bass's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from February 1965 to February 1966. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1The Beatles155
  2. 2Herman's Hermits149
  3. 3Gary Lewis And The Playboys112
  4. 4The Supremes105
  5. 5The Rolling Stones104
  6. 6The Beach Boys90
  7. 7The Righteous Brothers88
  8. 8The Dave Clark Five87
  9. 9Four Tops73
  10. 10Elvis Presley73

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.