Songs · UK Singles Chart

Running Bear

Johnny Preston

Entered Feb 12, 1960 · peaked at #1 on Mar 17, 1960 · 16 weeks on the chart, last seen Jun 2, 1960

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Billboard Hot 100 · #1, 27 wkUK Singles Chart · #1, 16 wk
Record Power
41.4
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
2
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
10
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
16
February 1960 – June 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%40.6

The top ten the week it peaked

See Mar 17, 1960 on the timeline →
  1. #1Running BearJohnny Preston
  2. #2WhyAnthony Newley
  3. #3DelawarePerry Como
  4. #4Be MineLance Fortune
  5. #5Poor MeAdam Faith
  6. #6Voice in the WildernessCliff Richard And The Shadows
  7. #7Theme from 'a Summer PlacePercy Faith
  8. #8Pretty Blue EyesCraig Douglas
  9. #9Summer SetMr. Acker Bilk and His Paramount Jazz Band
  10. #10You Got What It TakesMarv Johnson

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