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Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Bright Lights Big City

Jimmy Reed

Entered Sep 18, 1961 · 9 weeks on the chart, last seen Nov 13, 1961

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Record Power
2.8
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#58
1 week there · Oct 23, 1961
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
9
September 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
Jimmy Reedprimary100%2.9

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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