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Freddy Cannon portraitFreddy Cannon

Also credited as Freddie Cannon

Charting Aug 14, 1959Aug 23, 1962 · 49 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 158 wk, UK Singles Chart 49 wk

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Artist of the Week

  • Global Music Power

    3 crowns

    19591966

    Longest reign 2 weeks (Jan–Feb 1960) · First crown Jan 1960

Peak Power
2.42%
week of Mar 17, 1960
Career Power
87
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
71
July 1959 – July 1960
Peak Five Years
87
September 1957 – August 1962
Top-five weeks
5
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
49
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.04%
week of Mar 4, 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 UK Singles Chart

7 records · 87 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
Way Down Yonder In New Orleans#31740.3
The Urge#181014.0
Tallahassee Lassie#17813.8
Palisades Park#20911.4
Muskrat Ramble#3254.8
California Here I Come#2432.3
Indiana#4210.6

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At their peak

1959 in music

Freddy Cannon's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from July 1959 to July 1960. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Cliff Richard And The Shadows138
  2. 2Adam Faith129
  3. 3Bobby Darin124
  4. 4The Everly Brothers115
  5. 5Russ Conway115
  6. 6Emile Ford and the Checkmates106
  7. 7Anthony Newley104
  8. 8Craig Douglas101
  9. 9Lonnie Donegan100
  10. 10Connie Francis98

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s.