Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Jimmy Dean

Charting Oct 2, 1961 → Jun 5, 1976 · 65 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 65 wk, UK Singles Chart 17 wk

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Image credits

Photo: William Morris Agency (management), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Global Music Power
7 crowns
19611976
Longest reign 7 weeks (Oct–Dec 1961) · First crown Oct 1961

Billboard Hot 100 · 65 wk UK Singles Chart · 17 wk Global Music Power · 67 wk

Peak Power: 2.40%; week of Dec 18, 1961
Career Power: 97; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 86; October 1961 – October 1962
Peak Five Years: 94; July 1960 – July 1965
Top-five weeks: 8; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 65; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.62%; week of Dec 4, 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

10 records · 97 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
Big Bad JohnApple Music	#1November 1961	16	October 1961 – January 1962	39.9	39.2
P.T. 109Apple Music	#8May 1962	11	March 1962 – June 1962	19.2	18.9
The Cajun QueenApple Music	#22February 1962	8	January 1962 – March 1962	8.5	9.3
Little Black BookApple Music	#29October 1962	9	September 1962 – November 1962	7.9	7.8
Dear IvanApple Music	#24January 1962	7	January 1962 – February 1962	6.3	7.1
To A Sleeping BeautyApple Music	#26March 1962	9	January 1962 – March 1962	5.7	8.1
Steel MenApple Music	#41August 1962	8	June 1962 – August 1962	4.8	4.7
I.O.U.Apple Music	#35May 1976	4	May 1976 – June 1976	2.9	2.9
Gonna Raise A Rukus Tonight	#73December 1962	6	December 1962 – January 1963	1.3	1.3
The First Thing Ev'ry Morning (And The Last Thing Ev'ry Night)Apple Music	#91July 1965	3	June 1965 – July 1965	0.5	0.5

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At their peak

1961 in music →

Jimmy Dean's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from October 1961 to October 1962. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s.