Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Sad Movies (Make Me Cry)

Sue Thompson

Entered Sep 4, 1961 · peaked at #5 on Oct 23, 1961 · 14 weeks on the chart, last seen Dec 4, 1961

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Billboard Hot 100 · #5, 14 wkUK Singles Chart · #46, 2 wk
Record Power
24.0
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
5
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
14
September 1961 – December 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
Sue Thompsonprimary100%24.5

The top ten the week it peaked

See Oct 23, 1961 on the timeline →
  1. #1Runaround SueDion
  2. #2Bristol StompThe Dovells
  3. #3Big Bad JohnJimmy Dean
  4. #4Hit The Road JackRay Charles and his Orchestra
  5. #5Sad Movies (Make Me Cry)Sue Thompson
  6. #6This TimeTroy Shondell
  7. #7I Love How You Love MeThe Paris Sisters
  8. #8Let's Get TogetherHayley Mills and Hayley Mills
  9. #9Ya YaLee Dorsey
  10. #10The FlyChubby Checker

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