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George Jones portraitGeorge Jones

Charting May 4, 1959Mar 19, 2011 · 18 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 18 wk

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Peak Power
0.10%
week of Jun 8, 1959
Career Power
3
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
2
August 1958 – August 1959
Peak Five Years
3
August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
18
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.30%
week of May 11, 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

6 records · 3 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
White Lightning#7351.2
Tender Years#7640.9
Who Shot Sam#9330.4
A Country Boy Can Survive (Y2K Version)with Chad Brock, Hank Williams Jr.#7530.2
The Race Is On#9610.1
Country Boyfeatured credit · with Aaron Lewis · feat. Charlie Daniels#8720.1

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At their peak

1958 in music

George Jones's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from August 1958 to August 1959. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Ricky Nelson141
  2. 2The Everly Brothers114
  3. 3Connie Francis111
  4. 4Frankie Avalon111
  5. 5Tommy Edwards100
  6. 6Elvis Presley97
  7. 7Lloyd Price89
  8. 8The Kingston Trio84
  9. 9Bobby Darin83
  10. 10The Platters79

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s.