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Mr. Acker Bilk portraitMr. Acker Bilk

Also credited as Mr. Acker Bilk and His Paramount Jazz Band

Charting Mar 17, 1962Feb 23, 1963 · 29 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 29 wk, UK Singles Chart 143 wk

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Artist of the Week

  • Global Music Power

    2 crowns

    19601976

    Longest reign 2 weeks (Jun 1962) · First crown Jun 1962

Peak Power
2.42%
week of Jun 30, 1962
Career Power
47
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
47
March 1962 – February 1963
Peak Five Years
47
August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks
8
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
29
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.56%
week of May 26, 1962
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

4 records · 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
Stranger On The Shore#12144.3
Above The Stars#5961.5
Only You (And You Alone)#7730.6
Limelight#9230.4

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At their peak

1962 in music

Mr. Acker Bilk's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from March 1962 to February 1963. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Elvis Presley113
  2. 2Chubby Checker103
  3. 3Ray Charles95
  4. 4Brenda Lee93
  5. 5Dee Dee Sharp91
  6. 6The Four Seasons90
  7. 7Dion84
  8. 8Connie Francis77
  9. 9Sam Cooke73
  10. 10The Shirelles71

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.