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Larry Williams

Charting Sep 21, 1957Apr 1, 1967 · 22 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 4 wk, UK Singles Chart 18 wk

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Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart combined, weighted · UK Singles Chart data ends Sep 18, 2026 · How it works

Each week an artist's share is the weighted mean of their Power Share across Billboard Hot 100 ×1 and UK Singles Chart ×0.45 (weights ∝ √population, US = 1). The divisor is every chart's weight, so a number one is worth the same share in any era — and a week before every chart exists, or after one's data ends, sums to less than 100.

UK Singles Chart data runs to Sep 18, 2026; later weeks combine the Billboard Hot 100 only, so their shares — and the most recent years' Era Power — are lower than a full week's would be.

Peak Power
0.49%
week of Mar 22, 1958
Career Power
11
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
11
March 1957 – March 1958
Peak Five Years
11
April 1953 – March 1958
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
22
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.80%
week of Mar 1, 1958
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 Global Music Power

3 records · 11 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. On this combined chart each song's figures are its figures on each market, weighted as the chart weights them, so the list still adds up to Career Power; peaks and weeks are shown per market.

SongPeakWeeksPower
Bony Moronie#11106.7
Short Fat Fannie#2184.5
Mercy, Mercy, Mercywith Johnny Watson#9640.2

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At their peak

Larry Williams's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from March 1957 to March 1958. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Elvis Presley72
  2. 2Pat Boone56
  3. 3Lonnie Donegan46
  4. 4Harry Belafonte44
  5. 5Paul Anka40
  6. 6Little Richard31
  7. 7Tommy Steele and the Steelmen30
  8. 8Charlie Gracie26
  9. 9Johnnie Ray26
  10. 10Petula Clark26

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.