Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Soldier Boy

The Shirelles

Entered Mar 24, 1962 · peaked at #1 on May 5, 1962 · 14 weeks on the chart, last seen Jun 23, 1962

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Billboard Hot 100 · #1, 14 wkUK Singles Chart · #23, 9 wk
Record Power
35.6
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
3
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
8
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 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
The Shirellesprimary100%35.7

The top ten the week it peaked

See May 5, 1962 on the timeline →
  1. #1Soldier BoyThe Shirelles
  2. #2Mashed Potato TimeDee Dee Sharp
  3. #3Johnny AngelShelley Fabares
  4. #4Stranger On The ShoreMr. Acker Bilk
  5. #5Good Luck CharmElvis Presley & The Jordanaires
  6. #6Shout - Part IJoey Dee & the Starliters
  7. #7Lover PleaseClyde McPhatter
  8. #8Slow TwistinChubby Checker (with Dee Dee Sharp)
  9. #9P.T. 109Jimmy Dean
  10. #10Twist, Twist SenoraGary U.S. Bonds

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