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Frankie Ford portraitFrankie Ford

Charting Feb 9, 1959Apr 17, 1961 · 34 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 34 wk

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Peak Power
1.29%
week of May 4, 1959
Career Power
24
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
22
February 1959 – February 1960
Peak Five Years
24
August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
34
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.33%
week of Apr 6, 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

5 records · 24 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
Sea Cruise#141721.5
Time After Time#7561.1
Seventeen#7251.0
You Talk Too Much#8740.6
Alimony#9720.3

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At their peak

1959 in music

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

  1. 1Frankie Avalon135
  2. 2Lloyd Price126
  3. 3Paul Anka125
  4. 4Bobby Darin112
  5. 5Connie Francis106
  6. 6Brook Benton103
  7. 7Fabian97
  8. 8Ricky Nelson93
  9. 9The Coasters92
  10. 10The Fleetwoods89

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s.