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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The Marathons

Charting Apr 24, 1961Jul 10, 1961 · 12 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 12 wk

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Peak Power
0.90%
week of Jul 3, 1961
Career Power
13
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
13
July 1960 – July 1961
Peak Five Years
13
August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
12
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.85%
week of Jun 19, 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 · 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
Peanut Butter#201212.8

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At their peak

1960 in music

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

  1. 1Connie Francis144
  2. 2Brenda Lee136
  3. 3Chubby Checker114
  4. 4The Everly Brothers103
  5. 5The Shirelles100
  6. 6Fats Domino98
  7. 7Brook Benton96
  8. 8Elvis Presley92
  9. 9Jackie Wilson88
  10. 10Ferrante & Teicher86

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.