Songs · UK Singles Chart

The Wayward Wind

Tex Ritter

Entered Jun 22, 1956 · peaked at #8 on Aug 3, 1956 · 14 weeks on the chart, last seen Sep 21, 1956

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Record Power
31.1
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
5
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
14
June 1956 – September 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
Tex Ritterprimary100%32.2

The top ten the week it peaked

See Aug 3, 1956 on the timeline →
  1. #1Why Do Fools Fall in Love ft Frankie LymonTeenagers feat. Frankie Lymon
  2. #2Whatever Will Be Will Be (Que Sera Sera)Doris Day
  3. #3Walk Hand in HandTony Martin
  4. #4I'll Be HomePat Boone
  5. #5Sweet Old-Fashioned GirlTeresa Brewer
  6. #6Heartbreak HotelElvis Presley
  7. #6Who Are WeRonnie Hilton
  8. #8The Wayward WindTex Ritter
  9. #9Mountain GreeneryMel Torme
  10. #10Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom)Perry Como
  11. #10I'm Walking Backwards for Christmas/Bluebottle BluesGoons

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