Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Jerry Lee Lewis

Also credited as Jerry Lee Lewis And His Pumping Piano

Charting Aug 4, 1958 → Jun 9, 1973 · 60 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 60 wk, UK Singles Chart 67 wk

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Photo: photographer:Maurice Seymour, Chicago, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Billboard Hot 100 · 60 wk UK Singles Chart · 67 wk Global Music Power · 117 wk

Peak Power: 0.54%; week of May 6, 1972
Career Power: 29; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 13; August 1971 – August 1972
Peak Five Years: 19; June 1968 – June 1973
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 60; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 1.31%; 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

14 records · 29 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
Chantilly LaceApple Music	#43April 1972	10	March 1972 – May 1972	6.2	6.1
Drinking Wine Spo-dee O'deeApple Music	#41May 1973	10	April 1973 – June 1973	6.0	6.0
Me And Bobby McGeeApple Music	#40January 1972	10	November 1971 – January 1972	6.0	6.0
What'd I SayApple Music	#30May 1961	8	April 1961 – May 1961	6.0	5.9
Break-Up	#52September 1958	5	September 1958 – October 1958	1.6	1.6
High School ConfidentialApple Music	#63August 1958	2	August 1958 – August 1958	0.8	0.8
What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made A Loser Out Of Me)Apple Music	#94July 1968	3	July 1968 – July 1968	0.4	0.4
Sweet Little SixteenApple Music	#95September 1962	3	September 1962 – September 1962	0.4	0.4
Turn On Your Love LightApple Music	#95August 1972	3	July 1972 – August 1972	0.4	0.4
Another Place Another TimeApple Music	#97April 1968	2	March 1968 – April 1968	0.3	0.3
I'll Make It All Up To You	#85September 1958	1	September 1958	0.2	0.2
High Heel Sneakers	#91November 1964	1	November 1964	0.2	0.2
I'll Sail My Ship Alone	#93January 1959	1	January 1959	0.2	0.1
I'm On Fire	#98April 1964	1	April 1964	0.1	0.1

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At their peak

1971 in music →

Jerry Lee Lewis's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from August 1971 to August 1972. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s.