Songs · UK Singles Chart

Baby I Don't Care/Valley of Tears

Buddy Holly

Entered Jul 6, 1961 · peaked at #12 on Aug 10, 1961 · 14 weeks on the chart, last seen Oct 5, 1961

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Record Power
24.2
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
14
July 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
Buddy Hollyprimary100%24.8

The top ten the week it peaked

See Aug 10, 1961 on the timeline →
  1. #1You Don't KnowHelen Shapiro
  2. #2Well I Ask YouEden Kane
  3. #3Halfway to ParadiseBilly Fury
  4. #4RomeoPetula Clark
  5. #5TemptationThe Everly Brothers
  6. #6You Always Hurt the One You LoveClarence 'Frogman' Henry
  7. #7A Girl Like YouCliff Richard
  8. #8Hello Mary Lou/Travelin' ManRicky Nelson
  9. #9TimeCraig Douglas
  10. #10PasadenaTemperance Seven

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