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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Sonny James portraitSonny James

Charting Nov 30, 1956Mar 22, 1957 · 8 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 55 wk, UK Singles Chart 8 wk

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Peak Power
1.35%
week of Mar 22, 1957
Career Power
18
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
18
March 1956 – March 1957
Peak Five Years
18
November 1952 – November 1957
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
8
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.72%
week of Mar 8, 1957
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

2 records · 18 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
Young Love#11716.7
The Cat Came Back#3011.3

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At their peak

1956 in music

Sonny James's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from March 1956 to March 1957. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Bill Haley And His Comets222
  2. 2Elvis Presley194
  3. 3Pat Boone149
  4. 4Lonnie Donegan129
  5. 5Ronnie Hilton96
  6. 6Winifred Atwell95
  7. 7Johnnie Ray91
  8. 8Frankie Laine87
  9. 9Teresa Brewer82
  10. 10David Whitfield81

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.