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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The Corsairs

Charting Dec 25, 1961Jun 2, 1962 · 23 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 23 wk

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Peak Power
0.85%
week of Mar 31, 1962
Career Power
14
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
14
June 1961 – June 1962
Peak Five Years
14
August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
23
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.71%
week of Mar 17, 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

2 records · 14 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
Smoky Placesfeat. Jay "Bird" Uzzell#121513.0
I'll Take You Homefeat. Jay "Bird" Uzzell#6881.2

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At their peak

1961 in music

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

  1. 1Chubby Checker121
  2. 2Brenda Lee109
  3. 3Elvis Presley104
  4. 4Connie Francis98
  5. 5Dion90
  6. 6Ricky Nelson87
  7. 7Bobby Vee84
  8. 8Roy Orbison82
  9. 9Jimmy Dean78
  10. 10The Shirelles78

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.