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Ketty Lester portraitKetty Lester

Charting Feb 24, 1962Dec 1, 1962 · 23 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 23 wk, UK Singles Chart 16 wk

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Peak Power
1.56%
week of May 12, 1962
Career Power
29
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
29
December 1961 – December 1962
Peak Five Years
29
August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
23
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.11%
week of Apr 14, 1962
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

4 records · 29 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
Love Letters#51424.4
But Not For Me#4174.4
You Can't Lie To A Liar#9010.2
This Land Is Your Land#9710.1

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At their peak

1961 in music

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

  1. 1Chubby Checker124
  2. 2Brenda Lee106
  3. 3Dion90
  4. 4Connie Francis89
  5. 5Neil Sedaka82
  6. 6Joey Dee & the Starliters82
  7. 7Dee Dee Sharp79
  8. 8The Shirelles75
  9. 9Elvis Presley73
  10. 10Ray Charles73

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.