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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The Shells

Charting Dec 19, 1960 → Feb 6, 1961 · 8 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — Billboard Hot 100 8 wk

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Peak Power
0.73%
week of Jan 30, 1961
Career Power
9
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
9
February 1960 – February 1961
Peak Five Years
9
August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
8
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.79%
week of Jan 16, 1961
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 · 9 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
Baby Oh Baby#2189.0

At their peak

1960 in music →

The Shells's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from February 1960 to February 1961. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Connie Francis156
  2. 2Brenda Lee152
  3. 3Bobby Rydell125
  4. 4The Everly Brothers120
  5. 5Jackie Wilson109
  6. 6Elvis Presley102
  7. 7Paul Anka89
  8. 8Fats Domino86
  9. 9Brook Benton83
  10. 10Johnny Horton79

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.