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Louis Armstrong portraitLouis Armstrong

Charting Oct 3, 1964Apr 30, 1988 · 21 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of themBillboard Hot 100 21 wk, UK Singles Chart 79 wk (4 crowns)

Part of the extended career Louis Armstrong (extended) × 1 — this page stays artist-only.

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Artist of the Week

  • UK Singles Chart

    4 crowns

    19521995

    Longest reign 4 weeks (Apr–May 1968) · First crown Apr 1968

Peak Power
0.53%
week of Apr 9, 1988
Career Power
11
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
8
May 1987 – April 1988
Peak Five Years
8
May 1983 – April 1988
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
21
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.21%
week of Apr 2, 1988
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

3 records · 11 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
What A Wonderful World#32117.5
So Long Dearie#5662.4
Mame#8140.8

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At their peak

1987 in music

Louis Armstrong's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from May 1987 to April 1988. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Whitney Houston131
  2. 2George Michael113
  3. 3Debbie Gibson104
  4. 4Michael Jackson102
  5. 5Richard Marx94
  6. 6Expose93
  7. 7Tiffany91
  8. 8Heart89
  9. 9Fleetwood Mac82
  10. 10Whitesnake81

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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