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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Kathy Young

Charting Oct 24, 1960Oct 2, 1961 · 30 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 30 wk

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Peak Power
1.06%
week of Jan 23, 1961
Career Power
24
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
24
October 1960 – October 1961
Peak Five Years
24
August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
30
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.70%
week of Dec 12, 1960
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

3 records · 24 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
A Thousand Starswith The Innocents#31719.3
Happy Birthday Blueswith The Innocents#30104.4
Magic Is The Nightwith The Innocents#8030.3

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At their peak

1960 in music

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

  1. 1Connie Francis123
  2. 2Brenda Lee111
  3. 3The Shirelles105
  4. 4Chubby Checker104
  5. 5Floyd Cramer94
  6. 6Elvis Presley94
  7. 7Brook Benton91
  8. 8Fats Domino79
  9. 9Bobby Vee76
  10. 10Roy Orbison75

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.