Artists · Global Music Power

Mongo Santamaria

Also credited as Mongo Santamaria Band

Charting Mar 16, 1963 → Dec 6, 1969 · 24 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 24 wk

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Photo: Associated Booking Corporation (management); photographer: Ronnie Brathwaite, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Billboard Hot 100 · 24 wk Global Music Power · 24 wk

Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart combined, weighted · UK Singles Chart data ends Sep 18, 2026 · How it works

Each week an artist's share is the weighted mean of their Power Share across Billboard Hot 100 ×1 and UK Singles Chart ×0.45 (weights ∝ √population, US = 1). The divisor is every chart's weight, so a number one is worth the same share in any era — and a week before every chart exists, or after one's data ends, sums to less than 100.

UK Singles Chart data runs to Sep 18, 2026; later weeks combine the Billboard Hot 100 only, so their shares — and the most recent years' Era Power — are lower than a full week's would be.

Peak Power: 0.75%; week of May 18, 1963
Career Power: 14; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 10; June 1962 – May 1963
Peak Five Years: 10; April 1960 – April 1965
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 24; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 1.79%; week of May 4, 1963
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 Global Music Power

4 records · 14 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. On this combined chart each song's figures are its figures on each market, weighted as the chart weights them, so the list still adds up to Career Power; peaks and weeks are shown per market.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
Watermelon ManApple Music	#10	11	March 1963 – May 1963	10.1	10.0
Cloud NineApple Music	#32	8	February 1969 – March 1969	3.6	3.6
El Pussy Cat	#97	3	March 1965 – April 1965	0.2	0.2
Feeling Alright	#96	2	November 1969 – December 1969	0.2	0.2

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At their peak

Mongo Santamaria's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from June 1962 to May 1963. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.