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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Sue Thompson

Charting Sep 4, 1961Mar 6, 1965 · 72 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 72 wk, UK Singles Chart 9 wk

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Peak Power
2.27%
week of Mar 3, 1962
Career Power
89
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
67
August 1961 – August 1962
Peak Five Years
89
March 1960 – March 1965
Top-five weeks
4
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
72
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.35%
week of Feb 24, 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

7 records · 89 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
Norman#31630.2
Sad Movies (Make Me Cry)#51424.5
James (Hold The Ladder Steady)#171012.0
Paper Tiger#23108.5
Have A Good Time#31117.6
Two Of A Kind#4294.9
Willie Can#7851.1

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At their peak

1961 in music

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

  1. 1Chubby Checker117
  2. 2Dion113
  3. 3Elvis Presley107
  4. 4Brenda Lee105
  5. 5Bobby Vee91
  6. 6Connie Francis90
  7. 7Jimmy Dean84
  8. 8The Shirelles80
  9. 9James Darren73
  10. 10Joey Dee & the Starliters71

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.