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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Sheb Wooley portraitSheb Wooley

Charting Jun 20, 1958Aug 8, 1958 · 8 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 21 wk, UK Singles Chart 8 wk

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Peak Power
1.24%
week of Aug 8, 1958
Career Power
17
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
17
August 1957 – August 1958
Peak Five Years
17
August 1953 – August 1958
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
8
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.48%
week of Jul 11, 1958
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 UK Singles Chart

1 song · 17 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
The Purple People Eater#12816.8

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At their peak

1957 in music

Sheb Wooley's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from August 1957 to August 1958. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Elvis Presley238
  2. 2Pat Boone208
  3. 3Paul Anka138
  4. 4The Crickets113
  5. 5Lonnie Donegan110
  6. 6Frankie Vaughan105
  7. 7The Everly Brothers103
  8. 8Perry Como93
  9. 9Harry Belafonte86
  10. 10Petula Clark85

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.