Songs · UK Singles Chart

Little Drummer Boy

The Pipes & Drums and the Military Band of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guard

Entered Nov 26, 1972 · peaked at #13 on Dec 17, 1972 · 9 weeks on the chart, last seen Jan 21, 1973

A holiday song: the “Without holiday songs” filter leaves it out.

Record Power
14.7
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
9
November 1972 – January 1973

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
The Pipesprimary50%7.4
Drums and the Military Band of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guardprimary50%7.4

The top ten the week it peaked

See Dec 17, 1972 on the timeline →
  1. #1Long Haired Lover from LiverpoolLittle Jimmy Osmond
  2. #2My Ding-A-LingChuck Berry
  3. #3Solid Gold Easy ActionT. Rex
  4. #4Happy Xmas (War Is Over)John, Yoko and the Plastic Ono Band & The Harlem Community Choir
  5. #5Crazy HorsesThe Osmonds
  6. #6Gudbuy T' JaneSlade
  7. #7Crocodile RockElton John
  8. #8BenMichael Jackson
  9. #9WhyDonny Osmond
  10. #10Nights In White SatinThe Moody Blues