Songs · UK Singles Chart

Let There Be Drums

Sandy Nelson

Entered Dec 14, 1961 · peaked at #3 on Jan 4, 1962 · 16 weeks on the chart, last seen Mar 29, 1962

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UK Singles Chart · #3, 16 wkBillboard Hot 100 · #7, 16 wk
Record Power
32.7
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
6
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
16
December 1961 – March 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
Sandy Nelsonprimary100%33.1

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jan 4, 1962 on the timeline →
  1. #1Moon RiverDanny Williams
  2. #2Midnight In MoscowKenny Ball and his Jazzmen
  3. #3Let There Be DrumsSandy Nelson
  4. #4Johnny WillPat Boone
  5. #5Tower of StrengthFrankie Vaughan
  6. #6Happy Birthday, Sweet SixteenNeil Sedaka
  7. #7MultiplicationBobby Darin
  8. #8Stranger On The ShoreMr. Acker Bilk
  9. #9I'd Never Find Another YouBilly Fury
  10. #10Toy BalloonsRuss Conway

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Let There Be Drums — Sandy Nelson · ChartReign