Songs · UK Singles Chart

The Great Pretender/Only You

The Platters

Entered Sep 7, 1956 · peaked at #5 on Sep 21, 1956 · 16 weeks on the chart, last seen Apr 12, 1957

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Record Power
36.2
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
7
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
16
September 1956 – April 1957

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
The Plattersprimary100%35.5

The top ten the week it peaked

See Sep 21, 1956 on the timeline →
  1. #1Lay Down Your ArmsAnne Shelton
  2. #2Whatever Will Be Will Be (Que Sera Sera)Doris Day
  3. #3Rockin' Through the RyeBill Haley And His Comets
  4. #4The Ying Tong Song/Bloodnok's Rock 'N' Roll CallGoons
  5. #5The Great Pretender/Only YouThe Platters
  6. #6Why Do Fools Fall in Love ft Frankie LymonTeenagers feat. Frankie Lymon
  7. #6Sweet Old-Fashioned GirlTeresa Brewer
  8. #6Walk Hand in HandTony Martin
  9. #9Bring a Little Water Sylvie/Dead or AliveLonnie Donegan
  10. #10Mountain GreeneryMel Torme

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The Great Pretender/Only You — The Platters · ChartReign