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Howlin' Wolf portraitHowlin' Wolf

Charting Jun 4, 1964Jul 2, 1964 · 5 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 5 wk

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Peak Power
0.34%
week of Jul 2, 1964
Career Power
4
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
4
July 1963 – July 1964
Peak Five Years
4
July 1959 – July 1964
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
5
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.86%
week of Jun 25, 1964
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

1 song · 4 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
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At their peak

1963 in music

Howlin' Wolf's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from July 1963 to July 1964. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1The Beatles173
  2. 2The Searchers128
  3. 3Gerry And The Pacemakers122
  4. 4Brian Poole And The Tremeloes120
  5. 5Cliff Richard114
  6. 6The Shadows108
  7. 7Roy Orbison103
  8. 8The Bachelors102
  9. 9Freddie And The Dreamers102
  10. 10Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas101

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.