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The Dovells portraitThe Dovells

Charting Sep 11, 1961Nov 16, 1963 · 75 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 75 wk

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Peak Power
2.20%
week of Nov 27, 1961
Career Power
95
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
55
September 1961 – September 1962
Peak Five Years
95
November 1958 – November 1963
Top-five weeks
6
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
75
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.47%
week of Oct 23, 1961
Comebacks
0
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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

8 records · 95 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
Bristol Stomp#21637.4
You Can't Sit Down#31428.0
Hully Gully Baby#251211.4
Bristol Twistin' Annie#27118.6
(Do The New) Continental#37105.5
Betty In Bermudas#5072.9
The Jitterbug#8230.6
Stop Monkeyin' Aroun#9420.3

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At their peak

1961 in music

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

  1. 1Dion117
  2. 2Chubby Checker116
  3. 3Elvis Presley106
  4. 4Brenda Lee104
  5. 5Connie Francis94
  6. 6Jimmy Dean85
  7. 7Bobby Vee83
  8. 8The Shirelles80
  9. 9The Marvelettes75
  10. 10Joey Dee & the Starliters75

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.