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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Slim Whitman

Charting Jul 15, 1955Dec 1, 1974 · 63 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in itUK Singles Chart 63 wk (12 crowns)

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Honours

Artist of the Week

  • UK Singles Chart

    12 crowns

    Longest reign 12 weeks (Jul–Oct 1955) · First crown Jul 1955

  • Global Music Power

    12 crowns

    19551974

    Longest reign 12 weeks (Jul–Oct 1955) · First crown Jul 1955

Peak Power
4.23%
week of Oct 14, 1955
Career Power
170
share-weeks
Crowns
12
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
99
July 1955 – July 1956
Peak Five Years
156
November 1952 – November 1957
Top-five weeks
14
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
63
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.37%
week of Sep 30, 1955
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

8 records · 170 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
Rose Marie#11962.9
I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen#71331.4
Serenade#81530.0
Indian Love Call#71219.2
Happy Anniversary#141013.8
I'm a Fool#1647.2
Tumbling Tumbleweeds#1923.6
China Doll#1521.8

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At their peak

1955 in music

Slim Whitman's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from July 1955 to July 1956. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1David Whitfield128
  2. 2Bill Haley And His Comets124
  3. 3Frank Sinatra100
  4. 4Slim Whitman99
  5. 5Jimmy Young92
  6. 6Frankie Laine84
  7. 7Winifred Atwell81
  8. 8Lonnie Donegan80
  9. 9Alma Cogan70
  10. 10Ronnie Hilton67

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s.