Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The Kingston Trio

Charting Sep 29, 1958 → Jan 4, 1964 · 143 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 143 wk, UK Singles Chart 15 wk

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Billboard Hot 100 · 143 wk UK Singles Chart · 15 wk Global Music Power · 144 wk

Peak Power: 2.56%; week of Jan 12, 1959
Career Power: 166; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 88; October 1958 – October 1959
Peak Five Years: 163; September 1958 – September 1963
Top-five weeks: 4; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 143; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.67%; week of Nov 17, 1958
Comebacks: 1; May 1963

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

17 records · 166 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.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
Tom DooleyApple Music	#1November 1958	21	September 1958 – February 1959	51.2	49.7
The Tijuana JailApple Music	#12April 1959	13	March 1959 – June 1959	19.0	18.5
Reverend Mr. BlackApple Music	#8May 1963	11	April 1963 – June 1963	18.1	18.0
M.T.A.Apple Music	#15July 1959	11	June 1959 – August 1959	13.6	13.2
Where Have All The Flowers GoneApple Music	#21April 1962	14	January 1962 – April 1962	13.2	13.0
A Worried ManApple Music	#20October 1959	11	September 1959 – November 1959	13.1	13.0
Greenback DollarApple Music	#21March 1963	11	January 1963 – April 1963	10.9	10.7
El MatadorApple Music	#32March 1960	11	February 1960 – May 1960	7.6	7.4
Desert PeteApple Music	#33September 1963	8	August 1963 – September 1963	6.5	6.4
Bad Man Blunder	#37August 1960	10	June 1960 – August 1960	5.7	5.5
Ally Ally Oxen FreeApple Music	#61December 1963	7	November 1963 – January 1964	2.5	2.5
EvergladesApple Music	#60October 1960	5	October 1960 – November 1960	1.6	1.5
Raspberries, StrawberriesApple Music	#70February 1959	8	January 1959 – March 1959	1.4	1.8
Scotch And SodaApple Music	#81June 1962	7	April 1962 – June 1962	1.2	1.1
One More TownApple Music	#97November 1962	2	October 1962 – November 1962	0.3	0.3
CooCoo-U	#98December 1959	1	December 1959	0.1	0.1
Jane, Jane, Jane	#93May 1962	1	May 1962	0.1	0.1

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At their peak

1958 in music →

The Kingston Trio's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from October 1958 to October 1959. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s.