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Lonnie Donegan portraitLonnie Donegan

Also credited as Lonnie Donegan And His Skiffle Group

Charting Aug 7, 1961Oct 16, 1961 · 11 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of themBillboard Hot 100 11 wk, UK Singles Chart 282 wk (9 crowns)

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Honours

Artist of the Week

  • UK Singles Chart

    9 crowns

    Longest reign 3 weeks (Jun 1957) · First crown May 1956

  • Global Music Power

    6 crowns

    19562000

    Longest reign 3 weeks (Jun 1957) · First crown May 1956

Peak Power
1.52%
week of Oct 9, 1961
Career Power
21
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
21
October 1960 – October 1961
Peak Five Years
21
August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
11
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.11%
week of Sep 25, 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

1 song · 21 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
Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavor (On The Bedpost Over Night)#51121.1

At their peak

1960 in music

Lonnie Donegan's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from October 1960 to October 1961. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Connie Francis118
  2. 2Elvis Presley117
  3. 3Brenda Lee107
  4. 4The Shirelles105
  5. 5Chubby Checker101
  6. 6Floyd Cramer94
  7. 7Brook Benton85
  8. 8Roy Orbison81
  9. 9Bobby Vee76
  10. 10Fats Domino76

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.