Songs · UK Singles Chart

Bring a Little Water Sylvie/Dead or Alive

Lonnie Donegan

Entered Sep 7, 1956 · peaked at #7 on Sep 28, 1956 · 13 weeks on the chart, last seen Jan 11, 1957

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Record Power
28.3
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
13
September 1956 – January 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
Lonnie Doneganprimary100%30.8

The top ten the week it peaked

See Sep 28, 1956 on the timeline →
  1. #1Lay Down Your ArmsAnne Shelton
  2. #2Whatever Will Be Will Be (Que Sera Sera)Doris Day
  3. #3The Ying Tong Song/Bloodnok's Rock 'N' Roll CallGoons
  4. #4Rockin' Through the RyeBill Haley And His Comets
  5. #5Hound DogElvis Presley
  6. #6The Great Pretender/Only YouThe Platters
  7. #7Bring a Little Water Sylvie/Dead or AliveLonnie Donegan
  8. #8A Woman in LoveFrankie Laine
  9. #9Walk Hand in HandTony Martin
  10. #10Sweet Old-Fashioned GirlTeresa Brewer

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