Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Please Mr. Postman

The Marvelettes

Entered Sep 4, 1961 · peaked at #1 on Dec 11, 1961 · 23 weeks on the chart, last seen Feb 10, 1962

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Record Power
37.7
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
1
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
7
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
23
September 1961 – February 1962

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
The Marvelettesprimary100%38.6

The top ten the week it peaked

See Dec 11, 1961 on the timeline →
  1. #1Please Mr. PostmanThe Marvelettes
  2. #2Big Bad JohnJimmy Dean
  3. #3Goodbye Cruel WorldJames Darren
  4. #4The TwistChubby Checker
  5. #5Walk On ByLeroy Van Dyke
  6. #6The Lion Sleeps TonightThe Tokens
  7. #7Run To HimBobby Vee
  8. #8TonightFerrante & Teicher
  9. #9Let There Be DrumsSandy Nelson
  10. #10Happy Birthday, Sweet SixteenNeil Sedaka

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