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Artists · UK Singles Chart

Winifred Atwell

Charting Dec 12, 1952Jan 8, 1960 · 105 weeks with chart power

Charted in 1 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in itUK Singles Chart 105 wk (10 crowns)

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Honours

Artist of the Week

  • UK Singles Chart

    10 crowns

    Longest reign 6 weeks (Nov–Dec 1954) · First crown Nov 1954

  • Global Music Power

    10 crowns

    19521960

    Longest reign 6 weeks (Nov 1954 – Jan 1955) · First crown Nov 1954

Peak Power
2.91%
week of Jun 8, 1956
Career Power
283
share-weeks
Crowns
10
weeks crowned Artist of the Week
Peak Year
97
March 1956 – March 1957
Peak Five Years
260
January 1953 – January 1958
Top-five weeks
32
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
105
weeks with chart power
Dominance
5.02%
week of Dec 3, 1954
Comebacks
1
Dec 1959

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

15 records · 283 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
The Poor People of Paris#11648.0
Let's Have a Party#21535.2
Let's Have a Ding Dong#31029.1
Make It a Party#71229.0
Let's Have Another Party#1826.3
Rachmaninoff's 18th Variation on a Theme by Paganini (the Story of Three Loves)#9922.5
Let's Have a Ball#4615.1
Coronation Rag#5614.6
Piano Party#10714.6
Britannia Rag#5614.2
Left Bank#14713.2
Flirtation Waltz#1038.2
Let's Rock 'N' Roll#2446.2
Port Au Princewith Frank Chacksfield#1863.7
The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll#2423.1

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At their peak

1956 in music

Winifred Atwell's best twelve months on the UK Singles Chart ran from March 1956 to March 1957. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

  1. 1Bill Haley And His Comets222
  2. 2Elvis Presley189
  3. 3Pat Boone132
  4. 4Lonnie Donegan127
  5. 5Ronnie Hilton97
  6. 6Winifred Atwell97
  7. 7Johnnie Ray85
  8. 8Frankie Laine84
  9. 9Teresa Brewer82
  10. 10David Whitfield77

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s.