Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Little Richard

Charting Sep 15, 1958 → May 10, 1986 · 41 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 41 wk, UK Singles Chart 104 wk (5 crowns)

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Image credits

Photo: Anna Bleker, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

UK Singles Chart
5 crowns
Longest reign 5 weeks (Mar–Apr 1957) · First crown Mar 1957
Global Music Power
5 crowns
19561989
Longest reign 5 weeks (Mar–Apr 1957) · First crown Mar 1957

Billboard Hot 100 · 41 wk UK Singles Chart · 104 wk Global Music Power · 144 wk

Peak Power: 0.39%; week of Nov 3, 1958
Career Power: 16; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 6; August 1958 – July 1959
Peak Five Years: 6; August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 41; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 0.90%; week of Oct 27, 1958
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

7 records · 16 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
Baby FaceApple Music	#41October 1958	10	September 1958 – November 1958	5.3	5.1
Great Gosh A'mighty (Down & Out In Bev. Hills Theme)Apple Music	#42April 1986	10	March 1986 – May 1986	5.1	5.0
Freedom BluesApple Music	#47July 1970	9	May 1970 – July 1970	4.1	4.1
Greenwood MississippiApple Music	#85September 1970	5	September 1970 – October 1970	0.9	0.9
Bama Lama Bama LooApple Music	#82August 1964	4	July 1964 – August 1964	0.7	0.7
Kansas City (Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey)Apple Music	#95May 1959	2	May 1959 – May 1959	0.3	0.3
I Don't Know What You've Got But It's Got Me - Part I	#92November 1965	1	November 1965	0.2	0.2

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At their peak

1958 in music →

Little Richard's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from August 1958 to July 1959. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s.