Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Jan & Dean

Charting Aug 3, 1959 → Sep 24, 1966 · 172 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 172 wk (2 crowns), UK Singles Chart 18 wk

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Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
2 crowns
19591966
Longest reign 2 weeks (Jul 1963) · First crown Jul 1963

Billboard Hot 100 · 172 wk UK Singles Chart · 18 wk Global Music Power · 180 wk

Peak Power: 2.35%; week of May 23, 1964
Career Power: 211; share-weeks
Crowns: 2; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 98; June 1963 – June 1964
Peak Five Years: 181; July 1961 – July 1966
Top-five weeks: 10; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 172; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.67%; week of Apr 18, 1964
Comebacks: 1; Jul 1963

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

24 records · 211 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
Surf CityApple Music	#1July 1963	13	June 1963 – September 1963	31.6	31.1
Dead Man's CurveApple Music	#8May 1964	14	March 1964 – June 1964	27.5	24.9
The Little Old Lady (From Pasadena)Apple Music	#3August 1964	11	June 1964 – September 1964	25.7	24.8
Baby TalkApple Music	#10September 1959	12	August 1959 – October 1959	19.0	18.6
Drag CityApple Music	#10January 1964	11	December 1963 – February 1964	18.4	18.2
Honolulu LuluApple Music	#11October 1963	10	September 1963 – November 1963	15.9	15.8
PopsicleApple Music	#21July 1966	9	June 1966 – July 1966	10.8	10.8
Ride The Wild SurfApple Music	#16October 1964	8	September 1964 – November 1964	10.0	9.8
LindaApple Music	#28May 1963	13	February 1963 – May 1963	9.9	9.8
Sidewalk SurfinApple Music	#25December 1964	8	October 1964 – December 1964	8.1	8.1
You Really Know How To Hurt A GuyApple Music	#27July 1965	9	May 1965 – July 1965	7.6	7.5
Heart And SoulApple Music	#25July 1961	7	June 1961 – August 1961	6.2	6.1
I Found A GirlApple Music	#30November 1965	7	October 1965 – November 1965	5.3	5.3
The New Girl In SchoolApple Music	#37April 1964	8	March 1964 – May 1964	4.4	5.9
We Go TogetherApple Music	#53September 1960	7	August 1960 – September 1960	2.3	2.2
(Here They Come) From All Over The WorldApple Music	#56April 1965	5	March 1965 – April 1965	1.7	1.7
TennesseeApple Music	#69June 1962	7	May 1962 – July 1962	1.6	1.6
BatmanApple Music	#66March 1966	5	February 1966 – March 1966	1.5	1.4
ClementineApple Music	#65March 1960	6	February 1960 – March 1960	1.4	1.4
GeeApple Music	#81December 1960	5	November 1960 – December 1960	0.9	0.9
Fiddle AroundApple Music	#93September 1966	4	September 1966 – September 1966	0.6	0.6
The Anaheim, Azusa & Cucamonga Sewing Circle, Book Review And Timing Associ	#77October 1964	3	October 1964 – October 1964	0.4	0.6
There's A GirlApple Music	#97November 1959	3	October 1959 – November 1959	0.4	0.4
A Sunday Kind Of Love	#95January 1962	1	January 1962	0.1	0.1

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At their peak

1963 in music →

Jan & Dean's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from June 1963 to June 1964. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s.