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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The Rip Chords

Charting Mar 30, 1963Aug 8, 1964 · 36 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 36 wk

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Peak Power
1.84%
week of Feb 29, 1964
Career Power
40
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
37
August 1963 – August 1964
Peak Five Years
40
August 1959 – August 1964
Top-five weeks
3
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
36
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.25%
week of Feb 15, 1964
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

5 records · 40 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
Hey Little Cobra#41427.8
Three Window Coupe#2898.2
Here I Stand#5183.5
Gone#8840.6
One Piece Topless Bathing Suit#9610.1

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At their peak

1963 in music

The Rip Chords's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from August 1963 to August 1964. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1The Beatles186
  2. 2The Beach Boys124
  3. 3Bobby Vinton102
  4. 4Jan & Dean91
  5. 5Lesley Gore88
  6. 6The Dave Clark Five86
  7. 7The Impressions75
  8. 8Major Lance74
  9. 9Mary Wells69
  10. 10Sam Cooke65

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.