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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The Elgins

Charting Feb 19, 1966Jul 29, 1967 · 21 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 21 wk, UK Singles Chart 20 wk

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Peak Power
0.32%
week of Dec 10, 1966
Career Power
6
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
6
December 1965 – December 1966
Peak Five Years
6
August 1962 – July 1967
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
21
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.65%
week of Dec 3, 1966
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

4 records · 6 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
Heaven Must Have Sent You#5083.9
Darling Baby#7281.6
Put Yourself In My Place#9240.5
It's Been A Long Long Time#9210.2

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At their peak

1965 in music

The Elgins's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from December 1965 to December 1966. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1The Beatles129
  2. 2The Lovin' Spoonful111
  3. 3The Rolling Stones107
  4. 4The Beach Boys93
  5. 5The Supremes91
  6. 6Simon & Garfunkel90
  7. 7The Mamas & The Papas88
  8. 8Herman's Hermits84
  9. 9Gary Lewis And The Playboys78
  10. 10The Righteous Brothers69

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.