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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The Fireflies

Charting Sep 7, 1959Feb 15, 1960 · 19 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 19 wk

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Peak Power
1.10%
week of Nov 30, 1959
Career Power
18
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
18
February 1959 – February 1960
Peak Five Years
18
August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
19
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.78%
week of Nov 2, 1959
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 · 18 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
You Were Mine#211617.8
I Can't Say Goodbyefeat. Ritchie Adams#9030.3

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At their peak

1959 in music

The Fireflies's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from February 1959 to February 1960. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Frankie Avalon139
  2. 2Paul Anka124
  3. 3Lloyd Price121
  4. 4Bobby Darin115
  5. 5Connie Francis103
  6. 6Brook Benton102
  7. 7Fabian96
  8. 8Ricky Nelson91
  9. 9The Fleetwoods89
  10. 10The Coasters89

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s.