Songs · UK Singles Chart

Mr Sandman

Dickie Valentine

Entered Dec 17, 1954 · peaked at #5 on Feb 4, 1955 · 12 weeks on the chart, last seen Mar 4, 1955

Record Power
28.9
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
6
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
12
December 1954 – March 1955

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 the song 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
Dickie Valentineprimary100%29.5

The top ten the week it peaked

See Feb 4, 1955 on the timeline →
  1. #1Mambo ItalianoRosemary Clooney and the Mellomen
  2. #2The Finger of SuspicionDickie Valentine & Stargazers
  3. #3Softly SoftlyRuby Murray
  4. #4Shake, Rattle and RollBill Haley And His Comets
  5. #5Mr SandmanDickie Valentine
  6. #6Give Me Your WordTennessee Ernie Ford
  7. #7HeartbeatRuby Murray
  8. #8No One but YouBilly Eckstine
  9. #9The Naughty Lady of Shady LaneThe Ames Brothers
  10. #10The Naughty Lady of Shady LaneDean Martin