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Len Barry portraitLen Barry

Charting May 29, 1965Sep 24, 1966 · 40 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 40 wk, UK Singles Chart 20 wk

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Artist of the Week

  • Global Music Power

    3 crowns

    19651966

    Longest reign 3 weeks (Nov–Dec 1965) · First crown Nov 1965

Peak Power
1.91%
week of Dec 18, 1965
Career Power
46
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
46
May 1965 – May 1966
Peak Five Years
46
October 1961 – September 1966
Top-five weeks
4
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
40
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.40%
week of Nov 20, 1965
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

6 records · 46 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
1-2-3#21529.5
Like A Baby#2798.0
Somewhere#2687.5
Lip Sync (To The Tongue Twisters)#8440.8
It's That Time Of The Year#9130.5
I Struck It Rich#9820.2

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At their peak

1965 in music

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

  1. 1The Beatles149
  2. 2Herman's Hermits133
  3. 3The Rolling Stones114
  4. 4Gary Lewis And The Playboys98
  5. 5The Beach Boys93
  6. 6The Righteous Brothers92
  7. 7The Dave Clark Five89
  8. 8The Supremes87
  9. 9Four Tops76
  10. 10The Byrds75

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.