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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

King Curtis And The Noble Knights

Charting Feb 17, 1962Sep 15, 1962 · 22 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 22 wk

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Peak Power
0.97%
week of May 19, 1962
Career Power
17
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
17
September 1961 – September 1962
Peak Five Years
17
August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
22
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.04%
week of Apr 28, 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

2 records · 17 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
Soul Twist#171314.3
Beach Party#6092.6

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At their peak

1961 in music

King Curtis And The Noble Knights's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from September 1961 to September 1962. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Dion117
  2. 2Chubby Checker115
  3. 3Elvis Presley108
  4. 4Brenda Lee103
  5. 5Connie Francis94
  6. 6Bobby Vee85
  7. 7Jimmy Dean85
  8. 8The Shirelles80
  9. 9The Marvelettes74
  10. 10Joey Dee & the Starliters73

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.