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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Ray Smith

Charting Jan 4, 1960May 16, 1960 · 18 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 18 wk

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Peak Power
0.95%
week of Mar 21, 1960
Career Power
15
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
15
May 1959 – May 1960
Peak Five Years
15
August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
18
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.72%
week of Feb 29, 1960
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 · 15 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
Rockin' Little Angel#221615.0
Put Your Arms Around Me Honey#9120.3

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At their peak

1959 in music

Ray Smith's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from May 1959 to May 1960. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Paul Anka141
  2. 2Bobby Darin133
  3. 3Connie Francis115
  4. 4Frankie Avalon113
  5. 5Lloyd Price107
  6. 6Bobby Rydell103
  7. 7Fabian88
  8. 8Fats Domino84
  9. 9Brook Benton83
  10. 10The Everly Brothers79

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.