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The Righteous Brothers

Charting May 11, 1963Mar 23, 1991 · 175 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in all of themBillboard Hot 100 175 wk (4 crowns), UK Singles Chart 83 wk (10 crowns)

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Honours

Artist of the Week

  • Billboard Hot 100

    4 crowns

    Longest reign 2 weeks (Feb 1965) · First crown Feb 1965

  • UK Singles Chart

    10 crowns

    Longest reign 5 weeks (Dec 1990 – Jan 1991) · First crown Feb 1965

  • Global Music Power

    10 crowns

    19631991

    Longest reign 6 weeks (Jan–Mar 1965) · First crown Jan 1965

Peak Power
2.48%
week of May 21, 1966
Career Power
254
share-weeks
Crowns
4
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
99
January 1965 – January 1966
Peak Five Years
173
November 1962 – October 1967
Top-five weeks
26
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
175
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.69%
week of Feb 6, 1965
Comebacks
2
Jul 1974, after 8 quiet years · Oct 1990, after 16 quiet years

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

21 records · 254 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
Unchained Melody#44466.4
You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin#11639.6
(You're My) Soul And Inspiration#11333.2
Rock And Roll Heaven#31726.4
Just Once In My Life#91121.5
Ebb Tide#5920.1
He#1889.2
Give It To The People#2098.6
Dream On#3286.1
Go Ahead And Cry#3064.7
Melancholy Music Man#4363.4
Little Latin Lupe Lu#4973.2
On This Side Of Goodbye#4763.1
Hung On You#4772.1
My Babe#7571.7
Georgia On My Mind#6251.6
Stranded In The Middle Of Noplace#7241.0
You Can Have Her#6750.9
Justine#8530.5
Bring Your Love To Me#8330.4
He Will Break Your Heart#9110.1

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At their peak

1965 in music

The Righteous Brothers's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from January 1965 to January 1966. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1The Beatles147
  2. 2Herman's Hermits140
  3. 3Gary Lewis And The Playboys112
  4. 4The Supremes107
  5. 5The Rolling Stones100
  6. 6The Righteous Brothers99
  7. 7The Dave Clark Five86
  8. 8The Beach Boys78
  9. 9Roger Miller75
  10. 10Four Tops74

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s.