Songs · UK Singles Chart

Poetry In Motion

Johnny Tillotson

Entered Dec 1, 1960 · peaked at #1 on Jan 12, 1961 · 15 weeks on the chart, last seen Mar 9, 1961

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UK Singles Chart · #1, 15 wkBillboard Hot 100 · #2, 15 wk
Record Power
38.9
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
15
December 1960 – March 1961

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 Tillotsonprimary100%39.7

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jan 12, 1961 on the timeline →
  1. #1Poetry In MotionJohnny Tillotson
  2. #2I Love YouCliff Richard
  3. #3Save The Last Dance For MeThe Drifters
  4. #4It's Now or NeverElvis Presley
  5. #5Portrait of My LoveMatt Monro
  6. #6Goodness Gracious MePeter Sellers & Sophia Loren
  7. #7Man of Mystery/The StrangerThe Shadows
  8. #8Rocking GooseJohnny And The Hurricanes
  9. #9Strawberry FairAnthony Newley
  10. #10PerfidiaThe Ventures

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