Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Johnny Horton

Charting Apr 27, 1959 → Apr 7, 1962 · 78 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 78 wk (2 crowns), UK Singles Chart 15 wk

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Image credits

Photo: Columbia Records / Photographer not credited, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
2 crowns
19591962
Longest reign 2 weeks (Jun 1959) · First crown Jun 1959

Billboard Hot 100 · 78 wk UK Singles Chart · 15 wk Global Music Power · 82 wk

Peak Power: 2.71%; week of Aug 10, 1959
Career Power: 141; share-weeks
Crowns: 2; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 81; February 1960 – February 1961
Peak Five Years: 141; August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks: 19; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 78; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.62%; week of Jun 22, 1959
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

8 records · 141 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
The Battle Of New OrleansApple Music	#1June 1959	21	April 1959 – September 1959	53.7	52.4
North To AlaskaApple Music	#4December 1960	23	September 1960 – February 1961	44.7	43.5
Sink The BismarkApple Music	#3April 1960	18	March 1960 – July 1960	34.9	34.0
Sleepy-Eyed JohnApple Music	#54May 1961	7	March 1961 – May 1961	2.9	2.8
Johnny RebApple Music	#54September 1959	8	August 1959 – October 1959	2.5	2.9
Johnny FreedomApple Music	#69July 1960	4	July 1960 – July 1960	1.1	1.1
Sal's Got A Sugar LipApple Music	#81September 1959	7	August 1959 – September 1959	0.5	1.0
Honky-Tonk ManApple Music	#96March 1962	2	March 1962 – April 1962	0.3	0.3

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At their peak

1960 in music →

Johnny Horton's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from February 1960 to February 1961. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s.