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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The Piltdown Men

Charting Sep 12, 1960Sep 26, 1960 · 3 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 3 wk, UK Singles Chart 34 wk

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Peak Power
0.07%
week of Sep 26, 1960
Career Power
1
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
1
October 1959 – September 1960
Peak Five Years
1
August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
3
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.28%
week of Sep 19, 1960
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

1 song · 1 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
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At their peak

1959 in music

The Piltdown Men's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from October 1959 to September 1960. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Bobby Rydell136
  2. 2Connie Francis131
  3. 3Paul Anka130
  4. 4The Everly Brothers114
  5. 5Brenda Lee105
  6. 6Bobby Darin101
  7. 7Johnny Preston90
  8. 8Brook Benton85
  9. 9Jackie Wilson83
  10. 10Fats Domino82

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.