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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Kay Starr

Charting Mar 20, 1961Nov 17, 1962 · 16 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of themBillboard Hot 100 16 wk, UK Singles Chart 58 wk (1 crown)

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Honours

Artist of the Week

  • UK Singles Chart

    1 crown

    First crown Mar 1956

  • Global Music Power

    1 crown

    19521962

    First crown Mar 1956

Peak Power
0.30%
week of May 15, 1961
Career Power
5
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
4
July 1960 – July 1961
Peak Five Years
5
August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
16
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.68%
week of May 1, 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

3 records · 5 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
Foolin' Around#4993.8
Four Walls#9240.5
I'll Never Be Free#9430.4

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At their peak

1960 in music

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

  1. 1Connie Francis147
  2. 2Brenda Lee139
  3. 3Chubby Checker113
  4. 4The Everly Brothers107
  5. 5The Shirelles100
  6. 6Fats Domino98
  7. 7Brook Benton94
  8. 8Elvis Presley92
  9. 9Jackie Wilson87
  10. 10Ferrante & Teicher86

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.