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Ballad of the Green Berets

Staff Sargeant Barry Sadler

Entered Mar 24, 1966 · 8 weeks on the chart, last seen May 12, 1966

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Record Power
10.3
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#24
1 week there · Apr 28, 1966
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
8
March 1966 – May 1966

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
Staff Sargeant Barry Sadlerprimary100%10.4

The top ten the week it peaked

See Apr 28, 1966 on the timeline →
  1. #1You Don't Have To Say You Love MeDusty Springfield
  2. #2Pretty FlamingoManfred Mann
  3. #3Somebody Help MeThe Spencer Davis Group
  4. #4Bang BangCher
  5. #5Hold Tight!Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich
  6. #6DaydreamThe Lovin' Spoonful
  7. #7Sound of SilenceThe Bachelors
  8. #8Pied PiperCrispian St. Peters
  9. #9I Put A Spell On YouAlan Price Set
  10. #10AlfieCilla Black

The #1 songs of 1966

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Every other song that reached #1 on the UK Singles Chart in 1966.

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