Songs · UK Singles Chart

Peggy Sue

Buddy Holly

Entered Dec 6, 1957 · peaked at #6 on Jan 17, 1958 · 17 weeks on the chart, last seen Mar 28, 1958

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Record Power
38.4
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
8
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
17
December 1957 – March 1958

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
Buddy Hollyprimary100%39.0

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jan 17, 1958 on the timeline →
  1. #1Great Balls of FireJerry Lee Lewis
  2. #2Ma He's Making Eyes at MeJohnny Otis and His Orchestra & Marie Adams
  3. #3All the Way/ChicagoFrank Sinatra
  4. #4Oh BoyThe Crickets
  5. #5My Special AngelMalcolm Vaughan
  6. #6Peggy SueBuddy Holly
  7. #7Kisses Sweeter Than WineJimmie Rodgers
  8. #8Kisses Sweeter Than WineFrankie Vaughan
  9. #9Reet Petite (the Sweetest Girl in Town)Jackie Wilson
  10. #10I Love You BabyPaul Anka

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