Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Sleepy-Eyed John

Johnny Horton

Entered Mar 27, 1961 · peaked at #54 on May 1, 1961 · 7 weeks on the chart, last seen May 8, 1961

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Record Power
2.8
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
7
March 1961 – May 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 the song 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
Johnny Hortonprimary100%2.9

The top ten the week it peaked

See May 1, 1961 on the timeline →
  1. #1RunawayDel Shannon
  2. #2Mother-In-LawErnie K-Doe
  3. #3I've Told Every Little StarLinda Scott
  4. #4A Hundred Pounds Of ClayGene McDaniels
  5. #5Blue MoonThe Marcels
  6. #6But I DoClarence Henry
  7. #7Take Good Care Of HerAdam Wade
  8. #8One Mint JulepRay Charles
  9. #9You Can Depend On MeBrenda Lee
  10. #10On The ReboundFloyd Cramer

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