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The Fireflies

Charting Sep 12, 1959Feb 20, 1960 · 19 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 19 wk

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Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart combined, weighted · UK Singles Chart data ends Sep 18, 2026 · How it works

Each week an artist's share is the weighted mean of their Power Share across Billboard Hot 100 ×1 and UK Singles Chart ×0.45 (weights ∝ √population, US = 1). The divisor is every chart's weight, so a number one is worth the same share in any era — and a week before every chart exists, or after one's data ends, sums to less than 100.

UK Singles Chart data runs to Sep 18, 2026; later weeks combine the Billboard Hot 100 only, so their shares — and the most recent years' Era Power — are lower than a full week's would be.

Peak Power
0.76%
week of Dec 5, 1959
Career Power
13
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
13
February 1959 – February 1960
Peak Five Years
13
March 1955 – February 1960
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
19
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.23%
week of Nov 7, 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 Global Music Power

2 records · 13 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. On this combined chart each song's figures are its figures on each market, weighted as the chart weights them, so the list still adds up to Career Power; peaks and weeks are shown per market.

SongPeakWeeksPower
You Were Mine#211612.3
I Can't Say Goodbyefeat. Ritchie Adams#9030.2

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At their peak

The Fireflies's best twelve months on the Global Music Power ran from February 1959 to February 1960. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Bobby Darin115
  2. 2Paul Anka114
  3. 3Lloyd Price105
  4. 4Connie Francis103
  5. 5Frankie Avalon101
  6. 6Ricky Nelson91
  7. 7The Everly Brothers77
  8. 8The Coasters74
  9. 9Brook Benton71
  10. 10Fats Domino68

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.