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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Preston Epps

Charting May 18, 1959Aug 29, 1960 · 16 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 16 wk

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Peak Power
1.16%
week of Jul 20, 1959
Career Power
18
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
18
August 1958 – August 1959
Peak Five Years
18
August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
16
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.30%
week of Jun 29, 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

2 records · 18 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
Bongo Rock#141317.6
Bongo Bongo Bongo#7830.6

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At their peak

1958 in music

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

  1. 1Ricky Nelson141
  2. 2The Everly Brothers114
  3. 3Connie Francis111
  4. 4Frankie Avalon111
  5. 5Tommy Edwards100
  6. 6Elvis Presley97
  7. 7Lloyd Price89
  8. 8The Kingston Trio84
  9. 9Bobby Darin83
  10. 10The Platters79

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s.