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Lee Dorsey portraitLee Dorsey

Charting Sep 11, 1961 → Jul 12, 1969 · 72 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 72 wk, UK Singles Chart 36 wk

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Billboard Hot 100 · 72 wkUK Singles Chart · 36 wkGlobal Music Power · 85 wk
Peak Power
1.45%
week of Nov 20, 1961
Career Power
72
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
31
December 1965 – December 1966
Peak Five Years
58
October 1961 – September 1966
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
72
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.92%
week of Oct 30, 1961
Comebacks
1
Sep 1966

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

9 records · 72 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
Ya Ya#71322.2
Working In The Coal Mine#81219.0
Do-Re-Mi#2798.1
Holy Cow#2397.6
Ride Your Pony#2897.6
Get Out Of My Life, Woman#44104.5
Go-Go Girl#6262.0
Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky (From Now On)#9530.4
My Old Car#9710.1

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At their peak

1965 in music →

Lee Dorsey's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from December 1965 to December 1966. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1The Beatles128
  2. 2The Lovin' Spoonful111
  3. 3The Rolling Stones105
  4. 4The Beach Boys95
  5. 5The Supremes91
  6. 6Simon & Garfunkel90
  7. 7The Mamas & The Papas89
  8. 8Herman's Hermits84
  9. 9Gary Lewis And The Playboys77
  10. 10Johnny Rivers70

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.