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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Harry Belafonte

Charting Mar 1, 1957Nov 16, 1961 · 69 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 69 wk

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Peak Power
3.87%
week of Nov 29, 1957
Career Power
190
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
154
January 1957 – January 1958
Peak Five Years
190
November 1956 – November 1961
Top-five weeks
22
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
69
weeks with chart power
Dominance
5.13%
week of Nov 15, 1957
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 · 190 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
Island in the Sun#32564.9
Mary's Boy Child#11950.9
The Banana Boat Song#21849.3
Little Bernadette#16712.6
The Son of Mary#1844.6
Hole in the Bucketwith Odetta#3283.9
Scarlet Ribbonswith Millard Thomas#1863.5

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At their peak

1957 in music

Harry Belafonte's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from January 1957 to January 1958. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Elvis Presley210
  2. 2Pat Boone200
  3. 3Lonnie Donegan173
  4. 4Harry Belafonte154
  5. 5Guy Mitchell126
  6. 6Tommy Steele and the Steelmen124
  7. 7Little Richard114
  8. 8Johnnie Ray110
  9. 9Paul Anka100
  10. 10Frankie Vaughan94

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s.