Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Lloyd Price

Also credited as Lloyd Price and His Orchestra

Charting Dec 8, 1958 → Jan 25, 1964 · 108 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 108 wk, UK Singles Chart 33 wk

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Image credits

Photo: Masahiro Sumori, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Year: 1959

Artist of the Week

Global Music Power
5 crowns
19581964
Longest reign 5 weeks (Feb–Mar 1959) · First crown Feb 1959

Billboard Hot 100 · 108 wk UK Singles Chart · 33 wk Global Music Power · 108 wk

Peak Power: 2.87%; week of Oct 5, 1959
Career Power: 187; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 134; January 1959 – January 1960
Peak Five Years: 186; December 1958 – November 1963
Top-five weeks: 21; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 108; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.75%; week of Mar 2, 1959
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

15 records · 187 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
Stagger LeeApple Music	#1February 1959	21	December 1958 – April 1959	41.9	41.7
PersonalityApple Music	#2June 1959	19	April 1959 – August 1959	40.4	40.0
I'm Gonna Get MarriedApple Music	#3September 1959	14	August 1959 – November 1959	31.4	31.2
Lady Luck	#14March 1960	13	February 1960 – April 1960	18.1	17.8
Come Into My Heart	#20December 1959	14	October 1959 – January 1960	14.4	14.5
Question	#19August 1960	11	June 1960 – September 1960	12.2	11.8
Misty	#21November 1963	9	October 1963 – November 1963	10.0	9.9
Where Were You (On Our Wedding Day)?Apple Music	#23March 1959	11	March 1959 – May 1959	8.0	9.8
For Love	#43May 1960	6	May 1960 – June 1960	3.5	3.5
Wont'cha Come Home	#43November 1959	10	November 1959 – January 1960	3.2	4.4
No If's - No And's	#40May 1960	7	April 1960 – June 1960	2.1	2.6
Just Call Me (And I'll Understand)	#79September 1960	4	September 1960 – October 1960	0.7	0.7
Billie Baby	#84January 1964	3	January 1964 – January 1964	0.6	0.6
Never Let Me Go	#82March 1960	3	March 1960 – April 1960	0.3	0.5
(You Better) Know What You're Doin	#90December 1960	2	December 1960 – December 1960	0.3	0.3

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At their peak

1959 in music →

Lloyd Price's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from January 1959 to January 1960. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s.