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The Marcels portraitThe Marcels

Charting Mar 6, 1961Mar 3, 1962 · 32 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in all of themBillboard Hot 100 32 wk (2 crowns), UK Singles Chart 13 wk (1 crown)

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Honours

Artist of the Week

  • Billboard Hot 100

    2 crowns

    Longest reign 2 weeks (Apr 1961) · First crown Apr 1961

  • UK Singles Chart

    1 crown

    First crown May 1961

  • Global Music Power

    4 crowns

    19611962

    Longest reign 4 weeks (Apr–May 1961) · First crown Apr 1961

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 →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

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.

SongPeakWeeksPower
Blue Moon#11433.5
Heartaches#71216.7
My Melancholy Baby#5851.8
Summertime#7830.5

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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:

  1. 1Chubby Checker134
  2. 2Brenda Lee108
  3. 3Connie Francis102
  4. 4Elvis Presley91
  5. 5The Shirelles89
  6. 6Brook Benton85
  7. 7Del Shannon78
  8. 8Roy Orbison77
  9. 9Bobby Vee75
  10. 10Gene McDaniels73

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.