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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Rod McKuen

Charting Jan 20, 1962Mar 3, 1962 · 6 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 6 wk

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Peak Power
0.11%
week of Mar 3, 1962
Career Power
1
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
1
March 1961 – March 1962
Peak Five Years
1
August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
6
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.27%
week of Feb 17, 1962
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 · 1 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
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At their peak

1961 in music

Rod McKuen's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from March 1961 to March 1962. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Chubby Checker134
  2. 2Brenda Lee108
  3. 3Elvis Presley105
  4. 4Connie Francis102
  5. 5The Shirelles89
  6. 6Brook Benton85
  7. 7Ricky Nelson81
  8. 8Del Shannon78
  9. 9Roy Orbison77
  10. 10Bobby Vee75

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.