Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The Rooftop Singers

Charting Jan 5, 1963 → Aug 31, 1963 · 28 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in 1 of them — Billboard Hot 100 28 wk (2 crowns), UK Singles Chart 12 wk

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Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
2 crowns
Longest reign 2 weeks (Jan–Feb 1963) · First crown Jan 1963
Global Music Power
5 crowns
19631963
Longest reign 5 weeks (Jan–Feb 1963) · First crown Jan 1963

Billboard Hot 100 · 28 wk UK Singles Chart · 12 wk Global Music Power · 28 wk

Peak Power: 1.96%; week of Mar 9, 1963
Career Power: 44; share-weeks
Crowns: 2; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 44; September 1962 – August 1963
Peak Five Years: 44; September 1958 – August 1963
Top-five weeks: 6; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 28; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.55%; week of Jan 26, 1963
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

3 records · 44 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.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
Walk Right InApple Music	#1January 1963	13	January 1963 – March 1963	31.1	30.8
Tom CatApple Music	#20May 1963	10	March 1963 – May 1963	9.9	9.9
Mama Don't AllowApple Music	#55August 1963	7	July 1963 – August 1963	2.8	2.7

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At their peak

1962 in music →

The Rooftop Singers's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from September 1962 to August 1963. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.