Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Gene Chandler

Charting Jan 13, 1962 → Oct 13, 1979 · 161 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 161 wk (2 crowns), UK Singles Chart 31 wk

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Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
2 crowns
19621984
Longest reign 2 weeks (Feb–Mar 1962) · First crown Feb 1962

Billboard Hot 100 · 161 wk UK Singles Chart · 31 wk Global Music Power · 186 wk

Peak Power: 2.15%; week of Mar 31, 1962
Career Power: 116; share-weeks
Crowns: 2; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 39; January 1962 – January 1963
Peak Five Years: 86; January 1962 – January 1967
Top-five weeks: 7; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 161; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.59%; week of Feb 24, 1962
Comebacks: 1; Sep 1970, after 8 quiet years

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

23 records · 116 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
Duke Of EarlApple Music	#1February 1962	15	January 1962 – April 1962	35.0	34.4
Groovy SituationApple Music	#12September 1970	15	July 1970 – October 1970	19.3	19.2
Just Be TrueApple Music	#19August 1964	10	July 1964 – September 1964	12.3	11.8
Nothing Can Stop MeApple Music	#18June 1965	12	April 1965 – July 1965	11.5	11.2
What NowApple Music	#40January 1965	8	December 1964 – January 1965	5.1	5.1
RainbowApple Music	#47May 1963	12	February 1963 – May 1963	5.1	5.0
I Fooled You This TimeApple Music	#45January 1967	8	November 1966 – January 1967	4.8	4.8
Bless Our LoveApple Music	#39November 1964	9	September 1964 – November 1964	4.7	4.6
You Threw A Lucky PunchApple Music	#49December 1962	8	November 1962 – January 1963	4.0	3.9
Get DownApple Music	#53February 1979	9	January 1979 – March 1979	3.3	3.3
Girl Don't Care	#66April 1967	9	February 1967 – April 1967	2.5	2.5
Rainbow '65 (Part I)Apple Music	#69January 1966	8	November 1965 – January 1966	1.9	1.9
From The Teacher To The Preacherwith Barbara AcklinApple Music	#57November 1968	8	October 1968 – December 1968	1.6	3.1
Man's TemptationApple Music	#71September 1963	7	August 1963 – September 1963	1.5	1.5
Simply Call It Love	#75November 1970	5	November 1970 – December 1970	1.1	1.1
There Was A TimeApple Music	#82October 1968	3	September 1968 – October 1968	0.6	0.6
To Be A LoverApple Music	#94July 1967	4	June 1967 – July 1967	0.6	0.5
Good Times	#92September 1965	3	August 1965 – September 1965	0.4	0.4
Soul Hootenanny (Pt. I)	#92May 1964	2	May 1964 – May 1964	0.3	0.3
(I'm Just A) Fool For YouApple Music	#88March 1966	2	March 1966 – March 1966	0.3	0.3
When You're #1Apple Music	#99October 1979	2	October 1979 – October 1979	0.2	0.2
You Can't Hurt Me No More	#92March 1965	1	March 1965	0.2	0.2
There Goes The Lover	#98September 1967	1	September 1967	0.1	0.1

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At their peak

1962 in music →

Gene Chandler's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from January 1962 to January 1963. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s.