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Songs · Billboard Hot 100

The Shag (Is Totally Cool)

Billy Graves

Entered Jan 26, 1959 · 9 weeks on the chart, last seen Mar 23, 1959

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Record Power
3.1
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#53
1 week there · Mar 2, 1959
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
9
January 1959 – March 1959

Ranked by Record Power, part of the ChartReign Power model — not a chart published by anyone else. How it works →

The run

Position by week; a gap is a spell off the chart.

What it earned each artist

Record Power is the song's own figure. Power contributed is what it earned each artist's Career Power: a featured credit takes its reduced share, and a week where the artist had other songs charting is split between them.

ArtistCreditCredit sharePower contributed
Billy Gravesprimary100%3.1

The top ten the week it peaked

See Mar 2, 1959 on the timeline →
  1. #1Stagger LeeLloyd Price
  2. #2DonnaRitchie Valens
  3. #3Charlie BrownThe Coasters
  4. #416 CandlesThe Crests
  5. #5Petite Fleur (Little Flower)Chris Barber's Jazz Band
  6. #6I Cried A TearLaVern Baker
  7. #7VenusFrankie Avalon
  8. #8Peter GunnRay Anthony
  9. #9The All American BoyBill Parsons
  10. #10Alvin's HarmonicaDavid Seville And The Chipmunks

The #1 songs of 1959

1959 in music

Every other song that reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1959.

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