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Songs · UK Singles Chart

(I Wanna) Love My Life Away

Gene Pitney

Entered Mar 23, 1961 · 11 weeks on the chart, last seen Jun 1, 1961

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UK Singles Chart · #26, 11 wkBillboard Hot 100 · #39, 8 wk
Record Power
12.5
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#26
2 weeks there · first Apr 27, 1961
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
11
March 1961 – June 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%12.8

The top ten the week it peaked

See Apr 27, 1961 on the timeline →
  1. #1Wooden HeartElvis Presley
  2. #2Lazy RiverBobby Darin
  3. #3Are You SureThe Allisons
  4. #4You're Driving Me CrazyTemperance Seven
  5. #5Where the Boys Are/Baby RooConnie Francis
  6. #6Gee Whiz It's YouCliff Richard
  7. #7Blue MoonThe Marcels
  8. #8Walk Right Back/Ebony EyesThe Everly Brothers
  9. #9War PaintBrook Brothers
  10. #10Theme from 'ExodusFerrante & Teicher

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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