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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Lou Busch

Charting Jan 27, 1956May 18, 1956 · 17 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsUK Singles Chart 17 wk

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Peak Power
2.43%
week of Apr 27, 1956
Career Power
47
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
47
May 1955 – May 1956
Peak Five Years
47
November 1952 – November 1957
Top-five weeks
8
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
17
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.50%
week of Feb 24, 1956
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 UK Singles Chart

1 song · 47 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
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At their peak

1955 in music

Lou Busch's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from May 1955 to May 1956. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1David Whitfield115
  2. 2Jimmy Young112
  3. 3Bill Haley And His Comets102
  4. 4Frank Sinatra98
  5. 5Slim Whitman95
  6. 6Alma Cogan90
  7. 7Frankie Laine88
  8. 8Eddie Calvert84
  9. 9Ruby Murray77
  10. 10Johnnie Ray72

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.