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Artists · Billboard Hot 100

The Wailers

Charting May 18, 1959Jan 17, 2009 · 48 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 48 wk

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Peak Power
0.46%
week of Jul 6, 1959
Career Power
21
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
9
September 1958 – September 1959
Peak Five Years
11
June 1959 – June 1964
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
48
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.07%
week of Jun 22, 1959
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 · 21 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
Tall Cool One#362313.5
Everybody Wants To Go To Heavenwith Kenny Chesney#41205.9
Mau-Mau#6851.2

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At their peak

1958 in music

The Wailers's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from September 1958 to September 1959. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Ricky Nelson138
  2. 2Connie Francis109
  3. 3Lloyd Price104
  4. 4The Everly Brothers102
  5. 5Frankie Avalon102
  6. 6Elvis Presley100
  7. 7Tommy Edwards94
  8. 8The Kingston Trio85
  9. 9Bobby Darin81
  10. 10The Platters80

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s.