Artists · Billboard Hot 100
The Marcels
Charting Mar 6, 1961 → Mar 3, 1962 · 32 weeks with chart power
Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 32 wk (2 crowns), UK Singles Chart 13 wk (1 crown)
Honours
- Peak Power
- 2.11%
- week of May 22, 1961
- Career Power
- 52
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 2
- weeks crowned Artist of the Week
- Peak Year
- 52
- March 1961 – March 1962
- Peak Five Years
- 52
- August 1958 – July 1963
- Top-five weeks
- 6
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 32
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.58%
- week of Apr 10, 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 →
Songs on the Billboard Hot 100
4 records · 52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue MoonApple Music | #1 | 14 | 33.5 | ||
| HeartachesApple Music | #7 | 12 | 16.7 | ||
| My Melancholy BabyApple Music | #58 | 5 | 1.8 | ||
| SummertimeApple Music | #78 | 3 | 0.5 |
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At their peak
1961 in music →The Marcels's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from March 1961 to March 1962. The most powerful artists over those weeks:
- 1Chubby Checker134
- 2Brenda Lee108
- 3Connie Francis102
- 4Elvis Presley91
- 5The Shirelles89
- 6Brook Benton85
- 7Del Shannon78
- 8Roy Orbison77
- 9Bobby Vee75
- 10Gene McDaniels73
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.