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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The Orlons

Charting Jun 9, 1962Oct 3, 1964 · 84 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 84 wk, UK Singles Chart 3 wk

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Peak Power
2.13%
week of Apr 27, 1963
Career Power
118
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
85
May 1962 – May 1963
Peak Five Years
118
October 1959 – October 1964
Top-five weeks
11
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
84
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.43%
week of Jul 28, 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

9 records · 118 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
The Wah Watusi#21430.4
Don't Hang Up#41528.4
South Street#31326.6
Not Me#121014.8
Cross Fire!#19910.3
Bon-Doo-Wah#5562.1
Knock! Knock! (Who's There?)#6461.9
Rules Of Love#6661.6
Shimmy Shimmy#6651.6

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At their peak

1962 in music

The Orlons's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from May 1962 to May 1963. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Chubby Checker103
  2. 2Ray Charles100
  3. 3Dion95
  4. 4The Orlons85
  5. 5Brenda Lee83
  6. 6Gene Pitney81
  7. 7Bobby Vinton78
  8. 8Dee Dee Sharp74
  9. 9Neil Sedaka71
  10. 10Mary Wells71

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.