Artists · Billboard Hot 100

LaVern Baker

Charting Dec 8, 1958 → Jan 15, 1966 · 91 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 91 wk

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Billboard Hot 100 · 91 wk Global Music Power · 91 wk

Peak Power: 1.78%; week of Mar 30, 1959
Career Power: 64; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 45; December 1958 – December 1959
Peak Five Years: 64; August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 91; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 2.99%; week of Mar 2, 1959
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

13 records · 64 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.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
I Cried A TearApple Music	#6February 1959	21	December 1958 – April 1959	32.3	31.7
See See RiderApple Music	#34January 1963	11	December 1962 – February 1963	7.6	7.6
I Waited Too LongApple Music	#33June 1959	11	April 1959 – June 1959	6.7	6.6
Bumble BeeApple Music	#46January 1961	11	November 1960 – January 1961	4.5	4.4
So High So LowApple Music	#52August 1959	10	July 1959 – September 1959	4.3	4.2
SavedApple Music	#37May 1961	7	April 1961 – May 1961	4.1	4.0
Tiny Tim	#63November 1959	9	November 1959 – December 1959	2.4	2.4
Shadows Of Love	#83June 1960	4	May 1960 – June 1960	0.7	0.7
Wheel Of FortuneApple Music	#83May 1960	4	May 1960 – May 1960	0.7	0.6
Fly Me To The MoonApple Music	#84February 1965	2	February 1965 – February 1965	0.4	0.4
You're The Bosswith Jimmy Ricks	#81February 1961	3	February 1961 – February 1961	0.3	0.6
If You Love MeApple Music	#79August 1959	2	August 1959 – August 1959	0.2	0.4
Think Twicewith Jackie Wilson	#93January 1966	1	January 1966	0.1	0.1

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At their peak

1958 in music →

LaVern Baker's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from December 1958 to December 1959. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s.