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The Velvets

Entered Aug 17, 1961 · 1 week on the chart

Record Power
0.6
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#50
1 week there · Aug 17, 1961
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
1
August 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 it 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
The Velvetsprimary100%0.7

The top ten the week it peaked

See Aug 17, 1961 on the timeline →
  1. #1You Don't KnowHelen Shapiro
  2. #2Johnny Remember MeJohn Leyton
  3. #3Well I Ask YouEden Kane
  4. #4RomeoPetula Clark
  5. #5Hello Mary Lou/Travelin' ManRicky Nelson
  6. #6Reach for the Stars/Climb Ev'Ry MountainShirley Bassey
  7. #7Halfway to ParadiseBilly Fury
  8. #8TemptationThe Everly Brothers
  9. #9You Always Hurt the One You LoveClarence 'Frogman' Henry
  10. #10TimeCraig Douglas

The #1 songs of 1961

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Every other song that reached #1 on the UK Singles Chart in 1961.

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