Songs · UK Singles Chart

Tom Dooley

The Kingston Trio

Entered Nov 21, 1958 · peaked at #5 on Jan 2, 1959 · 14 weeks on the chart, last seen Feb 20, 1959

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Billboard Hot 100 · #1, 21 wkUK Singles Chart · #5, 14 wk
Record Power
33.4
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
7
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
14
November 1958 – February 1959

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 Kingston Trioprimary100%34.6

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jan 2, 1959 on the timeline →
  1. #1It's Only Make BelieveConway Twitty
  2. #2Hoots MonLord Rockingham's XI
  3. #3Tea for Two Cha ChaThe Tommy Dorsey Orchestra Starring Warren Covington
  4. #4Tom DooleyLonnie Donegan
  5. #5Tom DooleyThe Kingston Trio
  6. #6The Day The Rains CameJane Morgan
  7. #7Love Makes The World Go 'roundPerry Como
  8. #8It's All In The GameTommy Edwards
  9. #9High Class BabyCliff Richard and The Drifters
  10. #10More Party PopsRuss Conway

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