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Songs · UK Singles Chart

First Taste Of Love

Ben E. King

Entered Feb 2, 1961 · 11 weeks on the chart, last seen Apr 13, 1961

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UK Singles Chart · #27, 11 wkBillboard Hot 100 · #53, 7 wk
Record Power
11.7
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#27
1 week there · Mar 2, 1961
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
11
February 1961 – 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
Ben E. Kingprimary100%12.0

The top ten the week it peaked

See Mar 2, 1961 on the timeline →
  1. #1Walk Right Back/Ebony EyesThe Everly Brothers
  2. #2SailorPetula Clark
  3. #3Are You Lonesome Tonight?Elvis Presley
  4. #4Are You SureThe Allisons
  5. #5Will You Love Me TomorrowThe Shirelles
  6. #6Who Am I?/This Is ItAdam Faith
  7. #7FbiThe Shadows
  8. #8Calendar GirlNeil Sedaka
  9. #9You're SixteenJohnny Burnette
  10. #10Riders in the SkyRamrods

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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