Songs · UK Singles Chart

The Ballad of Davy Crockett

Tennessee Ernie Ford

Entered Jan 13, 1956 · peaked at #3 on Jan 27, 1956 · 7 weeks on the chart, last seen Feb 24, 1956

Record Power
18.7
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
4
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
7
January 1956 – February 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%12.6

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jan 27, 1956 on the timeline →
  1. #1Sixteen TonsTennessee Ernie Ford
  2. #2The Ballad of Davy CrockettBill Hayes
  3. #3The Ballad of Davy CrockettTennessee Ernie Ford
  4. #4Love and MarriageFrank Sinatra
  5. #5Love Is a Many Splendored ThingThe Four Aces
  6. #6(Love Is) the Tender TrapFrank Sinatra
  7. #7Rock-A-Beatin' BoogieBill Haley And His Comets
  8. #8Rock Around The ClockBill Haley And His Comets
  9. #9Rock Island LineLonnie Donegan
  10. #10Sixteen TonsFrankie Laine & the Mellomen