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My True Story

The Jive Five & Joe Rene And Orchestra

Entered Jul 3, 1961 · 19 weeks on the chart, last seen Nov 6, 1961

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Record Power
27.9
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#3
2 weeks there · first Sep 11, 1961
Top-ten weeks
4
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
19
July 1961 – November 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
The Jive Fiveprimary50%14.2
Joe Rene And Orchestraprimary50%14.2

The top ten the week it peaked

See Sep 11, 1961 on the timeline →
  1. #1MichaelThe Highwaymen
  2. #2Take Good Care Of My BabyBobby Vee
  3. #3My True StoryThe Jive Five & Joe Rene And Orchestra
  4. #4HurtTimi Yuro
  5. #5You Don't Know What You've Got (Until You Lose It)Ral Donner
  6. #6Wooden HeartJoe Dowell
  7. #7Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavor (On The Bedpost Over Night)Lonnie Donegan
  8. #8Who Put The Bomp (In The Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)Barry Mann
  9. #9Little SisterElvis Presley
  10. #10As If I Didn't KnowAdam Wade

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