Songs · Billboard Hot 100

I Cried A Tear

LaVern Baker

Entered Dec 8, 1958 · peaked at #6 on Feb 23, 1959 · 21 weeks on the chart, last seen Apr 27, 1959

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Record Power
31.7
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
3
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
21
December 1958 – April 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
LaVern Bakerprimary100%32.3

The top ten the week it peaked

See Feb 23, 1959 on the timeline →
  1. #1Stagger LeeLloyd Price
  2. #2DonnaRitchie Valens
  3. #316 CandlesThe Crests
  4. #4The All American BoyBill Parsons
  5. #5Charlie BrownThe Coasters
  6. #6I Cried A TearLaVern Baker
  7. #7Tall PaulAnnette & The Afterbeats
  8. #8Petite Fleur (Little Flower)Chris Barber's Jazz Band
  9. #9Lonely TeardropsJackie Wilson
  10. #10Peter GunnRay Anthony and His Orchestra

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