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Songs · Billboard Hot 100

(I Wanna) Love My Life Away

Gene Pitney

Entered Jan 30, 1961 · 8 weeks on the chart, last seen Mar 20, 1961

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UK Singles Chart · #26, 11 wkBillboard Hot 100 · #39, 8 wk
Record Power
4.4
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#39
1 week there · Feb 27, 1961
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
8
January 1961 – 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
Gene Pitneyprimary100%4.5

The top ten the week it peaked

See Feb 27, 1961 on the timeline →
  1. #1Pony TimeChubby Checker
  2. #2CalcuttaLawrence Welk
  3. #3There's A Moon Out TonightThe Capris
  4. #4SurrenderElvis Presley
  5. #5Don't WorryMarty Robbins
  6. #6Dedicated To The One I LoveThe Shirelles
  7. #7Where The Boys AreConnie Francis
  8. #8Shop AroundThe Miracles feat. Bill "Smokey" Robinson
  9. #9Ebony EyesThe Everly Brothers
  10. #10WheelsThe String-A-Longs

The #1 songs of 1961

1961 in music →

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

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