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Tex Ritter portraitTex Ritter

Charting Jul 3, 1961Feb 23, 1974 · 15 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 15 wk, UK Singles Chart 14 wk

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Peak Power
0.73%
week of Sep 4, 1961
Career Power
10
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
10
September 1960 – September 1961
Peak Five Years
10
August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
15
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.84%
week of Aug 28, 1961
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

2 records · 10 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
I Dreamed Of A Hill-Billy Heaven#201210.1
The Americans (A Canadian's Opinion)#9030.4

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At their peak

1960 in music

Tex Ritter's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from September 1960 to September 1961. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Connie Francis130
  2. 2Brenda Lee117
  3. 3Elvis Presley113
  4. 4Chubby Checker109
  5. 5The Shirelles105
  6. 6Brook Benton97
  7. 7Floyd Cramer93
  8. 8Fats Domino81
  9. 9The Everly Brothers80
  10. 10The Drifters77

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s.