Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The Drifters

Charting Aug 11, 1958 → Jan 14, 1967 · 255 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 255 wk (1 crown), UK Singles Chart 171 wk

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Image credits

Photo: Atlantic Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
1 crown
19581979
First crown Nov 1960

Billboard Hot 100 · 255 wk UK Singles Chart · 171 wk Global Music Power · 382 wk

Peak Power: 2.29%; week of Nov 28, 1960
Career Power: 299; share-weeks
Crowns: 1; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 79; August 1960 – August 1961
Peak Five Years: 236; June 1959 – June 1964
Top-five weeks: 10; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 255; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.65%; week of Oct 17, 1960
Comebacks: 2; Jan 1963 · Aug 1964

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

32 records · 299 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.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
Save The Last Dance For MeApple Music	#1October 1960	18	September 1960 – January 1961	40.4	39.1
There Goes My BabyApple Music	#2August 1959	19	June 1959 – October 1959	34.3	33.5
Under The BoardwalkApple Music	#4August 1964	14	June 1964 – September 1964	29.4	28.4
Up On The RoofApple Music	#5February 1963	20	November 1962 – March 1963	27.0	26.7
Dance With MeApple Music	#15November 1959	15	October 1959 – January 1960	17.4	17.1
On BroadwayApple Music	#9April 1963	10	March 1963 – May 1963	16.4	16.2
Please StayApple Music	#14July 1961	12	June 1961 – August 1961	16.1	15.9
Sweets For My SweetApple Music	#16October 1961	11	September 1961 – November 1961	15.3	15.0
I Count The TearsApple Music	#17January 1961	11	December 1960 – February 1961	13.4	13.4
This Magic MomentApple Music	#16March 1960	11	February 1960 – May 1960	12.4	12.1
Saturday Night At The MoviesApple Music	#18December 1964	9	November 1964 – January 1965	11.6	11.4
I'll Take You HomeApple Music	#25October 1963	10	September 1963 – November 1963	9.3	9.2
Some Kind Of WonderfulApple Music	#32May 1961	11	March 1961 – May 1961	9.2	9.0
When My Little Girl Is SmilingApple Music	#28April 1962	10	February 1962 – April 1962	7.0	6.9
I've Got Sand In My ShoesApple Music	#33October 1964	7	September 1964 – November 1964	6.0	6.0
(If You Cry) True Love, True LoveApple Music	#33November 1959	11	November 1959 – January 1960	5.7	8.5
Vaya Con DiosApple Music	#43February 1964	7	February 1964 – March 1964	4.4	4.2
At The ClubApple Music	#43February 1965	6	January 1965 – March 1965	3.8	3.7
Memories Are Made Of ThisApple Music	#48April 1966	7	March 1966 – April 1966	3.0	3.0
Lonely WindsApple Music	#54July 1960	9	May 1960 – July 1960	2.9	2.8
I'll Take You Where The Music's PlayingApple Music	#51September 1965	6	August 1965 – September 1965	2.9	2.9
One Way LoveApple Music	#56June 1964	7	May 1964 – June 1964	2.7	2.6
Baby What I MeanApple Music	#62December 1966	7	December 1966 – January 1967	2.2	2.2
Rat RaceApple Music	#71July 1963	6	June 1963 – July 1963	1.4	1.3
Come On Over To My PlaceApple Music	#60May 1965	5	April 1965 – May 1965	1.4	1.4
Room Full Of TearsApple Music	#72December 1961	5	December 1961 – January 1962	1.1	1.1
Drip DropApple Music	#58August 1958	2	August 1958 – August 1958	0.7	0.7
Follow MeApple Music	#91July 1965	3	July 1965 – July 1965	0.4	0.4
Stranger On The Shore	#73May 1962	1	May 1962	0.3	0.3
Chains Of LoveApple Music	#90April 1965	2	April 1965 – May 1965	0.3	0.3
Moonlight Bay	#86August 1958	1	August 1958	0.1	0.2
White Christmasfeat. Clyde McPhatter, Bill PinkneyApple Music	#88December 1962	2	December 1960 – December 1962	0.1	0.3

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At their peak

1960 in music →

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

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s.