Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Goodbye Cruel World

James Darren

Entered Oct 16, 1961 · peaked at #3 on Dec 4, 1961 · 17 weeks on the chart, last seen Feb 10, 1962

Billboard Hot 100 · #3, 17 wkUK Singles Chart · #28, 9 wk
Record Power
33.6
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
7
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
17
October 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
James Darrenprimary100%34.3

The top ten the week it peaked

See Dec 4, 1961 on the timeline →
  1. #1Big Bad JohnJimmy Dean
  2. #2Please Mr. PostmanThe Marvelettes
  3. #3Goodbye Cruel WorldJames Darren
  4. #4Runaround SueDion
  5. #5Fool #1Brenda Lee
  6. #6The TwistChubby Checker
  7. #7Walk On ByLeroy Van Dyke
  8. #8Tower Of StrengthGene McDaniels
  9. #9I Understand (Just How You Feel)The G-Clefs
  10. #10CrazyPatsy Cline
Goodbye Cruel World — James Darren · ChartReign