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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Jim Dale

Charting Oct 11, 1957Mar 21, 1958 · 19 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 19 wk

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Peak Power
2.38%
week of Jan 24, 1958
Career Power
50
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
50
March 1957 – March 1958
Peak Five Years
50
April 1953 – March 1958
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
19
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.57%
week of Dec 6, 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

4 records · 50 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
Be My Girl#21642.3
Sugartime#2534.4
Crazy Dream#2421.9
Just Born (to Be Your Baby)#2711.0

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At their peak

1957 in music

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

  1. 1Elvis Presley232
  2. 2Pat Boone179
  3. 3Lonnie Donegan148
  4. 4Harry Belafonte143
  5. 5Paul Anka129
  6. 6Little Richard99
  7. 7Tommy Steele and the Steelmen97
  8. 8Charlie Gracie85
  9. 9Johnnie Ray84
  10. 10Petula Clark84

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.