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The Fortunes portraitThe Fortunes

Charting Aug 21, 1965Oct 30, 1971 · 50 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 50 wk, UK Singles Chart 64 wk

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Peak Power
1.30%
week of Oct 23, 1965
Career Power
46
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
25
March 1965 – March 1966
Peak Five Years
27
July 1965 – July 1970
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
50
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.95%
week of Oct 9, 1965
Comebacks
1
Jul 1971, after 5 quiet years

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

6 records · 46 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've Got Your Troubles#71117.7
Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again#151417.6
Here It Comes Again#2786.9
That Same Old Feeling#6282.1
Freedom Comes, Freedom Goes#7251.2
This Golden Ring#8240.7

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At their peak

1965 in music

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

  1. 1The Beatles154
  2. 2Herman's Hermits152
  3. 3The Supremes109
  4. 4The Rolling Stones106
  5. 5Gary Lewis And The Playboys102
  6. 6The Beach Boys95
  7. 7The Dave Clark Five89
  8. 8The Righteous Brothers77
  9. 9Sonny & Cher72
  10. 10Elvis Presley71

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s.