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Artists · UK Singles Chart

The Fireballs portraitThe Fireballs

Charting Jul 27, 1961 → Sep 21, 1961 · 9 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 69 wk, UK Singles Chart 9 wk

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Peak Power
0.70%
week of Sep 21, 1961
Career Power
10
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
10
September 1960 – September 1961
Peak Five Years
10
October 1956 – September 1961
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
9
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.36%
week of Aug 17, 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 UK Singles Chart

1 song · 10 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
Quite A Party#29910.0

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At their peak

1960 in music →

The Fireballs's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from September 1960 to September 1961. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Elvis Presley198
  2. 2Cliff Richard163
  3. 3The Shadows147
  4. 4The Everly Brothers134
  5. 5Adam Faith116
  6. 6Connie Francis107
  7. 7Shirley Bassey105
  8. 8Duane Eddy100
  9. 9Roy Orbison96
  10. 10Johnny Burnette86

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.