Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Nina Simone

Charting Aug 3, 1959 → Jan 24, 1970 · 35 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 35 wk, UK Singles Chart 61 wk (4 crowns)

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Image credits

Photo: Ron Kroon for Anefo Restored by Bammesk, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

UK Singles Chart
4 crowns
19592006
Longest reign 4 weeks (Jan–Feb 1969) · First crown Jan 1969

Billboard Hot 100 · 35 wk UK Singles Chart · 61 wk Global Music Power · 87 wk

Peak Power: 1.13%; week of Oct 26, 1959
Career Power: 21; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 18; November 1958 – November 1959
Peak Five Years: 19; August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 35; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 1.98%; week of Oct 5, 1959
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

6 records · 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.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
I Loves You, PorgyApple Music	#18October 1959	15	August 1959 – November 1959	18.0	17.7
To Be Young, Gifted And BlackApple Music	#76January 1970	7	December 1969 – January 1970	1.5	1.4
Do What You Gotta DoApple Music	#83October 1968	5	October 1968 – November 1968	1.0	0.9
Ain't Got No; I Got LifeApple Music	#94January 1969	4	January 1969 – January 1969	0.5	0.5
Trouble In MindApple Music	#92January 1961	2	January 1961 – January 1961	0.3	0.3
Nobody Knows You When You're Down And OutApple Music	#93September 1960	2	September 1960 – September 1960	0.3	0.3

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At their peak

1958 in music →

Nina Simone's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from November 1958 to November 1959. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s.