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Please Don't Ask About Barbara

Bobby Vee

Entered Feb 24, 1962 · 11 weeks on the chart, last seen May 5, 1962

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Billboard Hot 100 · #15, 11 wkUK Singles Chart · #29, 9 wk
Record Power
12.1
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#15
1 week there · Apr 7, 1962
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
11
February 1962 – May 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 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
Bobby Veeprimary100%12.2

The top ten the week it peaked

See Apr 7, 1962 on the timeline →
  1. #1Johnny AngelShelley Fabares
  2. #2Don't Break The Heart That Loves YouConnie Francis
  3. #3Good Luck CharmElvis Presley
  4. #4Slow TwistinChubby Checker & Dee Dee Sharp
  5. #5Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)Roy Orbison
  6. #6Hey! BabyBruce Channel
  7. #7Midnight In MoscowKenny Ball and his Jazzmen
  8. #8Young WorldRicky Nelson
  9. #9Love LettersKetty Lester
  10. #10Mashed Potato TimeDee Dee Sharp

The #1 songs of 1962

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Every other song that reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1962.

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