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Jimmy Smith portraitJimmy Smith

Charting Mar 3, 1962Apr 13, 1968 · 49 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 49 wk, UK Singles Chart 3 wk

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Peak Power
0.24%
week of May 14, 1966
Career Power
12
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
4
June 1962 – June 1963
Peak Five Years
12
September 1961 – September 1966
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
49
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.62%
week of May 7, 1966
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

11 records · 12 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
Got My Mojo Working (Part I)#5172.9
Midnight Special, Part 1#6981.9
Back At The Chicken Shack, Part 1#6361.9
The Cat#6761.7
Hobo Flats - Part I#6961.4
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (Part I)#7251.3
Ol' Man River#8230.5
I'm Your Hoochie Cooche Man (Part 1)#9420.3
Chain Of Fools (Part 1)#10020.2
(Theme From) Any Number Can Win#9610.1
The Organ Grinder's Swingwith Kenny Burrell, Grady Tate#9230.1

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At their peak

1962 in music

Jimmy Smith's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from June 1962 to June 1963. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Chubby Checker107
  2. 2Ray Charles94
  3. 3The Orlons85
  4. 4Dion85
  5. 5Bobby Vinton83
  6. 6Brenda Lee83
  7. 7Neil Sedaka76
  8. 8Gene Pitney73
  9. 9Sam Cooke72
  10. 10Bobby Darin71

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.