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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The Pentagons

Charting Feb 20, 1961Nov 27, 1961 · 15 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 15 wk

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Peak Power
0.33%
week of Apr 17, 1961
Career Power
5
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
5
December 1960 – November 1961
Peak Five Years
5
August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
15
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.70%
week of Apr 17, 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

2 records · 5 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
To Be Loved (Forever)#48104.5
I Wonder (If Your Love Will Ever Belong To Me)#8450.8

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At their peak

1960 in music

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

  1. 1Connie Francis111
  2. 2The Shirelles108
  3. 3Brenda Lee108
  4. 4Chubby Checker101
  5. 5Elvis Presley95
  6. 6Roy Orbison83
  7. 7Floyd Cramer81
  8. 8Brook Benton75
  9. 9Del Shannon73
  10. 10Bobby Vee71

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.