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Virgil Johnson

Charting May 29, 1961Oct 9, 1961 · 10 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 marketsBillboard Hot 100 10 wk

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Peak Power
0.19%
week of Jul 24, 1961
Career Power
2
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
2
October 1960 – October 1961
Peak Five Years
2
August 1958 – July 1963
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
10
weeks with chart power
Dominance
0.45%
week of Jul 10, 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

2 records · 2 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
Tonight (Could Be The Night)featured credit · with The Velvets#2692.3
Laughfeatured credit · with The Velvets#9010.1

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At their peak

1960 in music

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

  1. 1Connie Francis120
  2. 2Elvis Presley116
  3. 3Brenda Lee109
  4. 4The Shirelles105
  5. 5Chubby Checker102
  6. 6Floyd Cramer94
  7. 7Brook Benton88
  8. 8Roy Orbison79
  9. 9Fats Domino77
  10. 10Bobby Vee76

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.