Songs · UK Singles Chart

I'm Walking Backwards for Christmas/Bluebottle Blues

Goons

Entered Jun 29, 1956 · peaked at #4 on Jul 13, 1956 · 10 weeks on the chart, last seen Aug 31, 1956

A holiday song: the “Without holiday songs” filter leaves it out.

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Record Power
23.9
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
10
June 1956 – August 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
Goonsprimary100%24.4

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jul 13, 1956 on the timeline →
  1. #1I'll Be HomePat Boone
  2. #2All Star Hit Parade (Ep)Various Artists
  3. #3Heartbreak HotelElvis Presley
  4. #4I'm Walking Backwards for Christmas/Bluebottle BluesGoons
  5. #5Why Do Fools Fall in Love ft Frankie LymonTeenagers feat. Frankie Lymon
  6. #6Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom)Perry Como
  7. #7Lost John/StewballLonnie Donegan
  8. #7Experiments with MiceJohnny Dankworth
  9. #9The Wayward WindGogi Grant
  10. #10My September LoveDavid Whitfield

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