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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The Olympics

Charting Aug 4, 1958Nov 5, 1966 · 91 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 91 wk, UK Singles Chart 9 wk

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Peak Power
1.39%
week of Sep 29, 1958
Career Power
50
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
22
August 1958 – July 1959
Peak Five Years
47
August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
91
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.81%
week of Sep 15, 1958
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

14 records · 50 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
Western Movies#81221.4
The Bounce#40105.7
Big Boy Pete#50145.6
Shimmy Like Kate#42115.3
Dance By The Light Of The Moon#47114.5
Baby, Do The Philly Dog#6361.7
(Baby) Hully Gully#7271.4
Dancin' Holiday#8661.0
(I Wanna) Dance With The Teacher#7151.0
Good Lovin#8151.0
Little Pedro#7640.8
Mine Exclusively#9920.2
Dooley#9410.1
Private Eye#9510.1

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At their peak

1958 in music

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

  1. 1Ricky Nelson139
  2. 2The Everly Brothers117
  3. 3Frankie Avalon111
  4. 4Connie Francis107
  5. 5Tommy Edwards100
  6. 6Elvis Presley99
  7. 7Bobby Darin88
  8. 8Lloyd Price86
  9. 9The Kingston Trio82
  10. 10The Platters79

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s.