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Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Free Me

Johnny Preston

Entered Dec 25, 1961 · 1 week on the chart

Record Power
0.1
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#97
1 week there · Dec 25, 1961
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
1
December 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
Johnny Prestonprimary100%0.1

The top ten the week it peaked

See Dec 25, 1961 on the timeline →
  1. #1The Lion Sleeps TonightThe Tokens
  2. #2Run To HimBobby Vee
  3. #3The TwistChubby Checker
  4. #4Goodbye Cruel WorldJames Darren
  5. #5Walk On ByLeroy Van Dyke
  6. #6Peppermint Twist - Part IJoey Dee & the Starliters
  7. #7Please Mr. PostmanThe Marvelettes
  8. #8Happy Birthday, Sweet SixteenNeil Sedaka
  9. #9Let There Be DrumsSandy Nelson
  10. #10Can't Help Falling In LoveElvis Presley & The Jordanaires

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Every other song that reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1961.

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