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Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Calcutta

Lawrence Welk

Entered Dec 12, 1960 · 17 weeks on the chart, last seen Apr 3, 1961

Record Power
39.4
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#1
2 weeks there · first Feb 13, 1961
Top-ten weeks
9
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
17
December 1960 – April 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
Lawrence Welkprimary100%39.9

The top ten the week it peaked

See Feb 13, 1961 on the timeline →
  1. #1CalcuttaLawrence Welk
  2. #2Will You Love Me TomorrowThe Shirelles
  3. #3Shop AroundThe Miracles feat. Bill "Smokey" Robinson
  4. #4Calendar GirlNeil Sedaka
  5. #5ExodusFerrante & Teicher
  6. #6Angel BabyRosie And The Originals
  7. #7EmotionsBrenda Lee
  8. #8Wonderland By NightBert Kaempfert
  9. #9Pony TimeChubby Checker
  10. #10There's A Moon Out TonightThe Capris

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