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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The Afterbeats

Charting Jan 5, 1959Feb 27, 1961 · 59 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 59 wk

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Peak Power
0.76%
week of Mar 30, 1959
Career Power
33
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
20
November 1959 – November 1960
Peak Five Years
33
August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
59
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.44%
week of Feb 23, 1959
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 · 33 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
Tall Paulwith Annette#71512.0
Pineapple Princesswith Annette#11148.9
First Name Initialwith Annette#20188.8
Train Of Lovewith Annette#3682.9
My Heart Became Of Agewith Annette#7430.2
Dream Boywith Annette#8720.2
Talk To Me Babywith Annette#9220.2

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At their peak

1959 in music

The Afterbeats's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from November 1959 to November 1960. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Connie Francis149
  2. 2Bobby Rydell134
  3. 3Brenda Lee127
  4. 4Paul Anka121
  5. 5The Everly Brothers118
  6. 6Brook Benton95
  7. 7Bobby Darin91
  8. 8Johnny Preston89
  9. 9Jackie Wilson85
  10. 10Fats Domino84

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s.