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The Surfaris portraitThe Surfaris

Charting Jun 22, 1963Oct 29, 1966 · 36 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 36 wk, UK Singles Chart 14 wk

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Artist of the Week

  • Global Music Power

    3 crowns

    19631966

    Longest reign 3 weeks (Aug 1963) · First crown Aug 1963

Peak Power
1.86%
week of Aug 31, 1963
Career Power
51
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
34
November 1962 – November 1963
Peak Five Years
51
November 1961 – October 1966
Top-five weeks
3
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
36
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.43%
week of Aug 10, 1963
Comebacks
1
Oct 1966

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 · 51 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
Wipe Out#23046.8
Point Panic#4983.1
Surfer Joe#6261.5

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At their peak

1962 in music

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

  1. 1Bobby Vinton85
  2. 2Chubby Checker85
  3. 3The Beach Boys84
  4. 4Peter, Paul & Mary79
  5. 5The Crystals77
  6. 6The Orlons72
  7. 7Brenda Lee71
  8. 8Dion71
  9. 9Lesley Gore65
  10. 10Roy Orbison64

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.