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Sway

Bobby Rydell

Entered Dec 15, 1960 · 13 weeks on the chart, last seen Mar 9, 1961

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UK Singles Chart · #12, 13 wkBillboard Hot 100 · #14, 11 wk
Record Power
21.0
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#12
1 week there · Jan 26, 1961
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
13
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 it 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
Bobby Rydellprimary100%21.5

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jan 26, 1961 on the timeline →
  1. #1Are You Lonesome Tonight?Elvis Presley
  2. #2Poetry In MotionJohnny Tillotson
  3. #3Portrait of My LoveMatt Monro
  4. #4Counting TeardropsEmile Ford and the Checkmates
  5. #5PepeDuane Eddy
  6. #6I Love YouCliff Richard
  7. #7PerfidiaThe Ventures
  8. #8Save The Last Dance For MeThe Drifters
  9. #9Buona SeraMr. Acker Bilk
  10. #10You're SixteenJohnny Burnette

The #1 songs of 1961

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Every other song that reached #1 on the UK Singles Chart in 1961.

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