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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The Cleftones

Charting May 22, 1961Dec 29, 1962 · 17 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 17 wk

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Peak Power
0.75%
week of Jul 24, 1961
Career Power
12
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
12
October 1960 – October 1961
Peak Five Years
12
August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
17
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.98%
week of Jun 19, 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

3 records · 12 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
Heart And Soul#181010.2
For Sentimental Reasons#6061.9
Lover Come Back To Me#9510.1

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At their peak

1960 in music

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

  1. 1Connie Francis120
  2. 2Elvis Presley116
  3. 3Brenda Lee109
  4. 4The Shirelles105
  5. 5Chubby Checker102
  6. 6Floyd Cramer94
  7. 7Brook Benton88
  8. 8Roy Orbison79
  9. 9Fats Domino77
  10. 10Bobby Vee76

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.