Songs · UK Singles Chart

Once in Every Lifetime

Ken Dodd

Entered Jun 15, 1961 · peaked at #28 on Jul 13, 1961 · 18 weeks on the chart, last seen Oct 26, 1961

Record Power
18.1
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
18
June 1961 – October 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
Ken Doddprimary100%18.6

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jul 13, 1961 on the timeline →
  1. #1RunawayDel Shannon
  2. #2Hello Mary Lou/Travelin' ManRicky Nelson
  3. #3TemptationThe Everly Brothers
  4. #4Halfway to ParadiseBilly Fury
  5. #5A Girl Like YouCliff Richard
  6. #6But I DoClarence 'Frogman' Henry
  7. #7PasadenaTemperance Seven
  8. #8Well I Ask YouEden Kane
  9. #9SurrenderElvis Presley
  10. #10Frightened CityThe Shadows