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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The Velaires

Charting Aug 14, 1961Sep 25, 1961 · 7 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 7 wk

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Peak Power
0.22%
week of Sep 25, 1961
Career Power
3
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
3
October 1960 – September 1961
Peak Five Years
3
August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
7
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.63%
week of Sep 18, 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 · 3 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
Roll Over Beethoven#5172.6

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At their peak

1960 in music

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

  1. 1Connie Francis127
  2. 2Elvis Presley114
  3. 3Brenda Lee114
  4. 4Chubby Checker106
  5. 5The Shirelles105
  6. 6Brook Benton94
  7. 7Floyd Cramer93
  8. 8Fats Domino80
  9. 9The Everly Brothers76
  10. 10The Drifters75

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.