Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Running Bear

Johnny Preston

Entered Oct 12, 1959 · peaked at #1 on Jan 18, 1960 · 27 weeks on the chart, last seen Apr 18, 1960

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Billboard Hot 100 · #1, 27 wkUK Singles Chart · #1, 16 wk
Record Power
44.7
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
3
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
10
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
27
October 1959 – April 1960

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
Johnny Prestonprimary100%45.2

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jan 18, 1960 on the timeline →
  1. #1Running BearJohnny Preston
  2. #2WhyFrankie Avalon
  3. #3El PasoMarty Robbins
  4. #4The Big HurtMiss Toni Fisher
  5. #5Way Down Yonder In New OrleansFreddie Cannon
  6. #6Go, Jimmy, GoJimmy Clanton
  7. #7Teen AngelMark Dinning
  8. #8The Village Of St. BernadetteAndy Williams
  9. #9Pretty Blue EyesSteve Lawrence
  10. #10Among My SouvenirsConnie Francis

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