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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The Majors

Charting Aug 11, 1962Dec 22, 1962 · 17 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 17 wk

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Peak Power
0.77%
week of Oct 13, 1962
Career Power
13
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
13
December 1961 – December 1962
Peak Five Years
13
August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
17
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.72%
week of Sep 29, 1962
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

3 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.

SongPeakWeeksPower
A Wonderful Dream#221110.6
A Little Bit Now (A Little Bit Later)#6362.0
She's A Troublemaker#8330.4

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At their peak

1961 in music

The Majors's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from December 1961 to December 1962. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Chubby Checker118
  2. 2Elvis Presley117
  3. 3Brenda Lee105
  4. 4Dion88
  5. 5Dee Dee Sharp87
  6. 6Connie Francis84
  7. 7Ray Charles82
  8. 8The Shirelles78
  9. 9Neil Sedaka78
  10. 10Joey Dee & the Starliters75

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.