Songs · UK Singles Chart

Counting Teardrops

Emile Ford and the Checkmates

Entered Dec 8, 1960 · peaked at #4 on Jan 26, 1961 · 12 weeks on the chart, last seen Feb 23, 1961

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Record Power
27.5
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
4
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
12
December 1960 – February 1961

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
Emile Ford and the Checkmatesprimary100%28.1

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jan 26, 1961 on the timeline →
  1. #1Are You Lonesome Tonight?Elvis Presley
  2. #2Poetry In MotionJohnny Tillotson
  3. #3Portrait of My LoveMatt Monro
  4. #4Counting TeardropsEmile Ford and the Checkmates
  5. #5PepeDuane Eddy
  6. #6I Love YouCliff Richard
  7. #7PerfidiaThe Ventures
  8. #8Save The Last Dance For MeThe Drifters
  9. #9Buona SeraMr. Acker Bilk
  10. #10You're SixteenJohnny Burnette

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