Songs · UK Singles Chart

Tom Dooley

Lonnie Donegan

Entered Nov 21, 1958 · peaked at #3 on Dec 5, 1958 · 14 weeks on the chart, last seen Feb 20, 1959

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Record Power
38.6
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
9
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
14
November 1958 – February 1959

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%38.0

The top ten the week it peaked

See Dec 5, 1958 on the timeline →
  1. #1Hoots MonLord Rockingham's XI
  2. #2It's Only Make BelieveConway Twitty
  3. #3It's All In The GameTommy Edwards
  4. #3Tom DooleyLonnie Donegan
  5. #5A Certain SmileJohnny Mathis
  6. #6Tea for Two Cha ChaThe Tommy Dorsey Orchestra Starring Warren Covington
  7. #7More Than Ever (Come Prima)Malcolm Vaughan & the Michael Sammes Singers
  8. #8Tom DooleyThe Kingston Trio
  9. #9High Class BabyCliff Richard and The Drifters
  10. #10Love Makes The World Go 'roundPerry Como
  11. #10SomedayRicky Nelson

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