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Slow Twistin

Chubby Checker & Dee Dee Sharp

Entered Mar 3, 1962 · 14 weeks on the chart, last seen Jun 2, 1962

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Billboard Hot 100 · #3, 14 wkUK Singles Chart · #23, 8 wk
Record Power
30.9
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#3
1 week there · Apr 14, 1962
Top-ten weeks
7
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
14
March 1962 – June 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
Chubby Checkerprimary50%15.0
Dee Dee Sharpprimary50%10.2

The top ten the week it peaked

See Apr 14, 1962 on the timeline →
  1. #1Johnny AngelShelley Fabares
  2. #2Good Luck CharmElvis Presley
  3. #3Slow TwistinChubby Checker & Dee Dee Sharp
  4. #4Mashed Potato TimeDee Dee Sharp
  5. #5Love LettersKetty Lester
  6. #6Young WorldRicky Nelson
  7. #7Don't Break The Heart That Loves YouConnie Francis
  8. #8Lover PleaseClyde McPhatter
  9. #9Midnight In MoscowKenny Ball and his Jazzmen
  10. #10Hey! BabyBruce Channel

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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