Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Linda Scott

Charting Mar 13, 1961 → Jan 25, 1964 · 77 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 77 wk, UK Singles Chart 14 wk

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Image credits

Photo: WBKB-TV, which is now WLS-TV and is the Chicago owned and operated ABC-TV television station. ABC carried the program., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Billboard Hot 100 · 77 wk UK Singles Chart · 14 wk Global Music Power · 79 wk

Peak Power: 1.84%; week of Sep 11, 1961
Career Power: 79; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 69; March 1961 – March 1962
Peak Five Years: 79; February 1959 – January 1964
Top-five weeks: 4; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 77; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.34%; week of May 1, 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

11 records · 79 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've Told Every Little StarApple Music	#3May 1961	14	March 1961 – June 1961	25.7	25.3
Don't Bet Money HoneyApple Music	#9August 1961	14	July 1961 – October 1961	20.4	20.2
I Don't Know WhyApple Music	#12December 1961	14	October 1961 – February 1962	16.5	16.0
Count Every StarApple Music	#41May 1962	10	April 1962 – June 1962	4.9	4.8
Never In A Million YearsApple Music	#56August 1962	9	June 1962 – August 1962	3.1	3.0
Starlight, StarbrightApple Music	#44August 1961	7	July 1961 – September 1961	2.2	3.4
It's All BecauseApple Music	#50December 1961	8	November 1961 – January 1962	1.9	2.9
YessireeApple Music	#60March 1962	7	February 1962 – March 1962	1.8	2.0
I Left My Heart In The BalconyApple Music	#74November 1962	8	September 1962 – November 1962	1.4	1.4
BermudaApple Music	#70March 1962	6	February 1962 – March 1962	1.1	1.3
Who's Been Sleeping In My Bed?	#100January 1964	1	January 1964	0.1	0.1

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At their peak

1961 in music →

Linda Scott's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from March 1961 to March 1962. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.