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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The Playmates

Charting Aug 4, 1958Jul 21, 1962 · 51 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 51 wk

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Peak Power
1.94%
week of Jan 12, 1959
Career Power
58
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
51
October 1958 – September 1959
Peak Five Years
58
August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
51
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.31%
week of Dec 1, 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

8 records · 58 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
Beep Beep#41533.1
What Is Love?#151316.7
Wait For Me#3785.2
Little Miss Stuck-Up#7051.3
Star Love#7540.8
Don't Go Home#7020.5
The Day I Died#8120.4
Keep Your Hands In Your Pockets#8820.3

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At their peak

1958 in music

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

  1. 1Ricky Nelson136
  2. 2Lloyd Price110
  3. 3Connie Francis107
  4. 4Frankie Avalon105
  5. 5Elvis Presley101
  6. 6The Everly Brothers99
  7. 7Tommy Edwards88
  8. 8The Kingston Trio87
  9. 9Bobby Darin87
  10. 10The Platters80

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s.