Songs · UK Singles Chart

Friendly Persuasion

Pat Boone

Entered Dec 7, 1956 · peaked at #3 on Jan 25, 1957 · 21 weeks on the chart, last seen Apr 26, 1957

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Record Power
50.2
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
10
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
21
December 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
Pat Booneprimary100%44.7

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jan 25, 1957 on the timeline →
  1. #1The Garden of EdenFrankie Vaughan
  2. #2Singing the BluesGuy Mitchell
  3. #3Friendly PersuasionPat Boone
  4. #4Singing the BluesTommy Steele and the Steelmen
  5. #5True LoveBing Crosby & Grace Kelly
  6. #6St. Therese of the RosesMalcolm Vaughan
  7. #7Cindy Oh CindyEddie Fisher
  8. #8Just Walkin' in the RainJohnnie Ray
  9. #9The Green DoorFrankie Vaughan
  10. #10Hound DogElvis Presley
  11. #10Blueberry HillFats Domino

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