Songs · UK Singles Chart

The Boll Weevil Song

Brook Benton

Entered Jul 13, 1961 · peaked at #30 on Jul 27, 1961 · 9 weeks on the chart, last seen Sep 7, 1961

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Billboard Hot 100 · #2, 16 wkUK Singles Chart · #30, 9 wk
Record Power
10.0
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
9
July 1961 – September 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
Brook Bentonprimary100%10.2

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jul 27, 1961 on the timeline →
  1. #1TemptationThe Everly Brothers
  2. #2Well I Ask YouEden Kane
  3. #3RunawayDel Shannon
  4. #4You Don't KnowHelen Shapiro
  5. #5A Girl Like YouCliff Richard
  6. #6Hello Mary Lou/Travelin' ManRicky Nelson
  7. #7Halfway to ParadiseBilly Fury
  8. #8PasadenaTemperance Seven
  9. #9TimeCraig Douglas
  10. #10RomeoPetula Clark

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