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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Lawrence Welk

Charting Oct 24, 1960May 1, 1965 · 65 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 65 wk

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Peak Power
2.51%
week of Mar 13, 1961
Career Power
63
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
52
October 1960 – October 1961
Peak Five Years
63
May 1960 – May 1965
Top-five weeks
7
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
65
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.63%
week of Feb 20, 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

12 records · 63 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
Calcutta#11739.9
Baby Elephant Walk#48167.3
Last Date#21117.2
(Theme from) My Three Sons#5572.6
Runaway#5662.3
Yellow Bird#7151.3
Apples And Bananas#7540.8
Riders In The Sky#8730.5
Stockholm#9120.3
Scarlett O'Hara#8920.3
Zero-Zero#9810.1
Breakwater#10010.1

At their peak

1960 in music

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

  1. 1Connie Francis120
  2. 2Brenda Lee109
  3. 3The Shirelles105
  4. 4Chubby Checker102
  5. 5Elvis Presley96
  6. 6Floyd Cramer94
  7. 7Brook Benton88
  8. 8Roy Orbison79
  9. 9Fats Domino77
  10. 10Bobby Vee76

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.