Skip to content

Songs · Billboard Hot 100

First Taste Of Love

Ben E. King

Entered Jan 2, 1961 · 7 weeks on the chart, last seen Feb 13, 1961

Apple Music
UK Singles Chart · #27, 11 wkBillboard Hot 100 · #53, 7 wk
Record Power
2.8
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#53
1 week there · Feb 6, 1961
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
7
January 1961 – February 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
Ben E. Kingprimary100%1.8

The top ten the week it peaked

See Feb 6, 1961 on the timeline →
  1. #1Will You Love Me TomorrowThe Shirelles
  2. #2CalcuttaLawrence Welk
  3. #3ExodusFerrante & Teicher
  4. #4Shop AroundThe Miracles feat. Bill "Smokey" Robinson
  5. #5Calendar GirlNeil Sedaka
  6. #6Wonderland By NightBert Kaempfert
  7. #7Angel BabyRosie And The Originals
  8. #8EmotionsBrenda Lee
  9. #9My Empty ArmsJackie Wilson
  10. #10Rubber BallBobby Vee

The #1 songs of 1961

1961 in music →

Every other song that reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1961.

30-second previews and store links from Apple Music.