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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Gene McDaniels

Charting Mar 20, 1961Sep 21, 1963 · 74 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 74 wk, UK Singles Chart 2 wk

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Peak Power
1.99%
week of Jun 5, 1961
Career Power
97
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
79
April 1961 – March 1962
Peak Five Years
97
September 1958 – September 1963
Top-five weeks
4
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
74
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.34%
week of May 8, 1961
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

8 records · 97 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
A Hundred Pounds Of Clay#31532.5
Tower Of Strength#51325.1
Chip Chip#101116.3
Point Of No Return#21109.6
Spanish Lace#3195.8
A Tear#3185.3
It's A Lonely Town (Lonely Without You)#6471.9
Funny#9910.1

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At their peak

1961 in music

Gene McDaniels's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from April 1961 to March 1962. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Chubby Checker129
  2. 2Brenda Lee113
  3. 3Connie Francis103
  4. 4Elvis Presley96
  5. 5Ricky Nelson88
  6. 6Roy Orbison87
  7. 7Gene McDaniels79
  8. 8Brook Benton78
  9. 9The Shirelles77
  10. 10Bobby Vee76

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.