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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Frank Cordell

Also credited as Frank Cordell and His Orchestra

Charting Aug 24, 1956Feb 23, 1961 · 4 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 4 wk

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Peak Power
0.28%
week of Aug 31, 1956
Career Power
4
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
3
September 1955 – August 1956
Peak Five Years
4
March 1956 – February 1961
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
4
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.42%
week of Aug 24, 1956
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

2 records · 4 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
Sadie's Shawl#2922.8
Black Bear#4421.6

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At their peak

1955 in music

Frank Cordell's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from September 1955 to August 1956. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Bill Haley And His Comets150
  2. 2David Whitfield111
  3. 3Winifred Atwell94
  4. 4Lonnie Donegan93
  5. 5Pat Boone90
  6. 6Ronnie Hilton86
  7. 7Frank Sinatra84
  8. 8Slim Whitman74
  9. 9Elvis Presley74
  10. 10Jimmy Young68

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s.