Songs · UK Singles Chart

Rock Island Line

Lonnie Donegan

Entered Jan 6, 1956 · peaked at #8 on Feb 3, 1956 · 22 weeks on the chart, last seen Jun 15, 1956

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Record Power
47.1
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
22
January 1956 – June 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
Lonnie Doneganprimary100%43.2

The top ten the week it peaked

See Feb 3, 1956 on the timeline →
  1. #1Sixteen TonsTennessee Ernie Ford
  2. #2The Ballad of Davy CrockettBill Hayes
  3. #3(Love Is) the Tender TrapFrank Sinatra
  4. #4Love and MarriageFrank Sinatra
  5. #5The Ballad of Davy CrockettTennessee Ernie Ford
  6. #6Rock-A-Beatin' BoogieBill Haley And His Comets
  7. #7Love Is a Many Splendored ThingThe Four Aces
  8. #8Rock Island LineLonnie Donegan
  9. #9Pickin' a ChickenEve Boswell
  10. #10Robin HoodGary Miller

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