Songs · UK Singles Chart

Running Scared

Roy Orbison

Entered May 25, 1961 · peaked at #9 on Jun 29, 1961 · 15 weeks on the chart, last seen Aug 31, 1961

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Billboard Hot 100 · #1, 17 wkUK Singles Chart · #9, 15 wk
Record Power
29.8
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
3
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
15
May 1961 – August 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
Roy Orbisonprimary100%30.5

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jun 29, 1961 on the timeline →
  1. #1RunawayDel Shannon
  2. #2SurrenderElvis Presley
  3. #3Hello Mary Lou/Travelin' ManRicky Nelson
  4. #4PasadenaTemperance Seven
  5. #5TemptationThe Everly Brothers
  6. #6Frightened CityThe Shadows
  7. #7Halfway to ParadiseBilly Fury
  8. #8But I DoClarence 'Frogman' Henry
  9. #9Running ScaredRoy Orbison
  10. #10I've Told Every Little StarLinda Scott

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