Songs · UK Singles Chart

Never Do a Tango with an Eskimo

Alma Cogan

Entered Dec 23, 1955 · peaked at #6 on Jan 6, 1956 · 5 weeks on the chart, last seen Jan 20, 1956

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Record Power
13.2
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
3
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
5
December 1955 – January 1956

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
Alma Coganprimary100%13.5

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jan 6, 1956 on the timeline →
  1. #1Rock Around The ClockBill Haley And His Comets
  2. #2Meet Me on the CornerMax Bygraves
  3. #3Love Is a Many Splendored ThingThe Four Aces
  4. #4Twenty Tiny FingersStargazers
  5. #5Rock-A-Beatin' BoogieBill Haley And His Comets
  6. #6Never Do a Tango with an EskimoAlma Cogan
  7. #7Suddenly There's a ValleyPetula Clark
  8. #8HawkeyeFrankie Laine
  9. #9Christmas AlphabetDickie Valentine
  10. #10Let's Have a Ding DongWinifred Atwell

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Never Do a Tango with an Eskimo — Alma Cogan · ChartReign