Songs · UK Singles Chart

Goodbye Cruel World

James Darren

Entered Dec 14, 1961 · peaked at #28 on Jan 11, 1962 · 9 weeks on the chart, last seen Feb 8, 1962

Billboard Hot 100 · #3, 17 wkUK Singles Chart · #28, 9 wk
Record Power
9.4
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
9
December 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%9.6

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jan 11, 1962 on the timeline →
  1. #1The Young OnesCliff Richard
  2. #2Stranger On The ShoreMr. Acker Bilk
  3. #3Moon RiverDanny Williams
  4. #4Let There Be DrumsSandy Nelson
  5. #5I'd Never Find Another YouBilly Fury
  6. #6Happy Birthday, Sweet SixteenNeil Sedaka
  7. #7Johnny WillPat Boone
  8. #8Midnight In MoscowKenny Ball and his Jazzmen
  9. #9MultiplicationBobby Darin
  10. #10So Long BabyDel Shannon