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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The Flares

Charting Sep 4, 1961Dec 11, 1961 · 15 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 15 wk

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Peak Power
0.84%
week of Dec 4, 1961
Career Power
14
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
14
December 1960 – December 1961
Peak Five Years
14
August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
15
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.56%
week of Oct 30, 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 Billboard Hot 100

1 song · 14 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
Foot Stomping - Part 1#251513.5

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At their peak

1960 in music

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

  1. 1Brenda Lee110
  2. 2Connie Francis108
  3. 3Elvis Presley108
  4. 4Chubby Checker107
  5. 5The Shirelles106
  6. 6Ricky Nelson89
  7. 7Roy Orbison81
  8. 8Floyd Cramer74
  9. 9Del Shannon74
  10. 10Bobby Vee74

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.