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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Peter Sellers portraitPeter Sellers

Charting Aug 2, 1957 → Nov 28, 1993 · 34 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — UK Singles Chart 34 wk

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Peak Power
1.26%
week of Oct 25, 1957
Career Power
52
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
20
November 1956 – October 1957
Peak Five Years
38
February 1956 – February 1961
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
34
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.29%
week of Jan 20, 1966
Comebacks
2
Jan 1961 · Feb 1966, after 5 quiet years

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 UK Singles Chart

5 records · 52 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
Any Old Iron#171119.6
Goodness Gracious Mewith Sophia Loren#41416.9
A Hard Day's Night#14712.3
Bangers and Mashwith Sophia Loren#2252.0
A Hard Day's Night (Ep)#5221.1

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At their peak

1956 in music →

Peter Sellers's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from November 1956 to October 1957. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Elvis Presley211
  2. 2Pat Boone171
  3. 3Lonnie Donegan156
  4. 4Johnnie Ray155
  5. 5Guy Mitchell144
  6. 6Tommy Steele and the Steelmen134
  7. 7Harry Belafonte109
  8. 8Little Richard104
  9. 9Bill Haley And His Comets102
  10. 10Frankie Vaughan94

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s.