Artists · UK Singles Chart

Tommy Steele and the Steelmen

Charting Oct 26, 1956 → Sep 5, 1958 · 63 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets — UK Singles Chart 63 wk

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UK Singles Chart · 63 wk Global Music Power · 63 wk

Peak Power: 3.40%; week of Sep 20, 1957
Career Power: 165; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 139; December 1956 – November 1957
Peak Five Years: 165; September 1953 – September 1958
Top-five weeks: 8; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 63; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 5.54%; week of Sep 6, 1957
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 UK Singles Chart

8 records · 165 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
Water Water/A Handful of SongsApple Music	#5September 1957	17	August 1957 – December 1957	42.3	40.4
ButterfingersApple Music	#8July 1957	18	May 1957 – September 1957	38.0	38.8
Singing the BluesApple Music	#1January 1957	15	December 1956 – May 1957	36.7	35.3
Knee Deep in the BluesApple Music	#15February 1957	9	February 1957 – April 1957	15.8	15.6
The Only Man on the IslandApple Music	#16July 1958	8	July 1958 – September 1958	14.1	13.8
Rock with the CavemanApple Music	#13November 1956	5	October 1956 – November 1956	10.0	9.4
ShiraleeApple Music	#11September 1957	4	August 1957 – September 1957	7.0	8.7
Hey You!	#28November 1957	1	November 1957	1.0	1.4

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At their peak

1956 in music →

Tommy Steele and the Steelmen's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from December 1956 to November 1957. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

1Elvis Presley224
2Pat Boone194
3Lonnie Donegan162
4Guy Mitchell150
5Tommy Steele and the Steelmen139
6Johnnie Ray137
7Harry Belafonte131
8Little Richard106
9Frankie Vaughan102
10Charlie Gracie83

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.