Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Sammy Davis Jr.

Charting Sep 1, 1962 → Nov 18, 1972 · 99 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 99 wk, UK Singles Chart 33 wk

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Billboard Hot 100 · 99 wk UK Singles Chart · 33 wk Global Music Power · 125 wk

Peak Power: 1.44%; week of Mar 22, 1969
Career Power: 85; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 23; April 1968 – March 1969
Peak Five Years: 43; August 1962 – July 1967
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 99; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 2.50%; week of Mar 8, 1969
Comebacks: 2; Mar 1969, after 5 quiet years · Jul 1972

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

10 records · 85 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.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
I've Gotta Be MeApple Music	#11March 1969	16	December 1968 – March 1969	22.2	22.0
The Candy Manwith The Mike Curb CongregationApple Music	#1June 1972	21	March 1972 – July 1972	19.5	38.8
What Kind Of Fool Am IApple Music	#17November 1962	15	September 1962 – December 1962	17.1	16.8
The Shelter Of Your ArmsApple Music	#17March 1964	17	November 1963 – March 1964	15.5	14.8
Don't Blame The Children	#37July 1967	9	May 1967 – July 1967	6.3	6.3
As Long As She Needs MeApple Music	#59March 1963	9	January 1963 – March 1963	3.1	3.1
Me And My Shadowwith Frank SinatraApple Music	#64December 1962	6	December 1962 – January 1963	0.8	1.7
Lonely Is The NameApple Music	#93June 1968	3	May 1968 – June 1968	0.4	0.4
The People Treewith The Mike Curb CongregationApple Music	#92November 1972	5	October 1972 – November 1972	0.4	0.7
Sam's Songwith Dean MartinApple Music	#94December 1962	3	December 1962 – January 1963	0.1	0.4

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At their peak

1968 in music →

Sammy Davis Jr.'s best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from April 1968 to March 1969. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s.