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The Four Preps portraitThe Four Preps

Charting Aug 4, 1958 → Apr 4, 1964 · 67 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 67 wk, UK Singles Chart 23 wk

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Billboard Hot 100 · 67 wkUK Singles Chart · 23 wkGlobal Music Power · 80 wk
Peak Power
1.39%
week of Mar 14, 1960
Career Power
55
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
29
June 1959 – June 1960
Peak Five Years
54
August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
67
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.34%
week of Feb 15, 1960
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

10 records · 55 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
Down By The Station#131522.0
More Money For You And Me#171110.5
Lazy Summer Night#211010.4
Got A Girl#24106.7
The Big Draft#6162.0
Cinderella#6971.5
A Letter To The Beatles#8530.6
Big Man#6710.4
I Ain't Never#7920.4
Calcutta#9620.3

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At their peak

1959 in music →

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

  1. 1Paul Anka140
  2. 2Bobby Rydell121
  3. 3Bobby Darin120
  4. 4Connie Francis117
  5. 5Frankie Avalon102
  6. 6Lloyd Price93
  7. 7The Everly Brothers91
  8. 8The Browns79
  9. 9Fabian78
  10. 10Brook Benton75

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s.