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Songs · Billboard Hot 100

(He's) The Great Impostor

The Fleetwoods

Entered Sep 11, 1961 · 8 weeks on the chart, last seen Oct 30, 1961

Record Power
5.9
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#30
1 week there · Oct 16, 1961
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
8
September 1961 – October 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 Fleetwoodsprimary100%6.0

The top ten the week it peaked

See Oct 16, 1961 on the timeline →
  1. #1Hit The Road JackRay Charles and his Orchestra
  2. #2Runaround SueDion
  3. #3Bristol StompThe Dovells
  4. #4CryingRoy Orbison
  5. #5You Must Have Been A Beautiful BabyBobby Darin
  6. #6Take Good Care Of My BabyBobby Vee
  7. #7Sad Movies (Make Me Cry)Sue Thompson
  8. #8Big Bad JohnJimmy Dean
  9. #9MexicoBob Moore and His Orch.
  10. #10Ya YaLee Dorsey

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