Songs · UK Singles Chart

Sixteen Tons

Tennessee Ernie Ford

Entered Jan 6, 1956 · peaked at #1 on Jan 20, 1956 · 11 weeks on the chart, last seen Mar 16, 1956

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Record Power
33.2
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
4
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
8
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
11
January 1956 – March 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
Tennessee Ernie Fordprimary100%33.9

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jan 20, 1956 on the timeline →
  1. #1Sixteen TonsTennessee Ernie Ford
  2. #2The Ballad of Davy CrockettBill Hayes
  3. #3Love and MarriageFrank Sinatra
  4. #4Rock-A-Beatin' BoogieBill Haley And His Comets
  5. #5Love Is a Many Splendored ThingThe Four Aces
  6. #6Rock Around The ClockBill Haley And His Comets
  7. #7The Ballad of Davy CrockettTennessee Ernie Ford
  8. #8Meet Me on the CornerMax Bygraves
  9. #9(Love Is) the Tender TrapFrank Sinatra
  10. #10Rock Island LineLonnie Donegan

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Sixteen Tons — Tennessee Ernie Ford · ChartReign