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Pete Drake And His Talking Steel Guitar

Charting Mar 7, 1964May 16, 1964 · 11 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 11 wk

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Peak Power
0.80%
week of May 9, 1964
Career Power
11
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
11
May 1963 – May 1964
Peak Five Years
11
May 1959 – May 1964
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
11
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.73%
week of Apr 25, 1964
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

1 song · 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
Forever#251110.5

At their peak

1963 in music

Pete Drake And His Talking Steel Guitar's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from May 1963 to May 1964. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1The Beatles135
  2. 2Lesley Gore121
  3. 3Bobby Vinton115
  4. 4The Beach Boys110
  5. 5Jan & Dean92
  6. 6The Four Seasons92
  7. 7Major Lance73
  8. 8Al Martino67
  9. 9Chubby Checker66
  10. 10Martha & The Vandellas66

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.