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Songs · Billboard Hot 100

(What A Sad Way) To Love Someone

Ral Donner

Entered Mar 24, 1962 · 7 weeks on the chart, last seen May 5, 1962

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Record Power
1.4
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#74
1 week there · Apr 28, 1962
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
7
March 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
Ral Donnerprimary100%1.4

The top ten the week it peaked

See Apr 28, 1962 on the timeline →
  1. #1Good Luck CharmElvis Presley & The Jordanaires
  2. #2Johnny AngelShelley Fabares
  3. #3Mashed Potato TimeDee Dee Sharp
  4. #4Soldier BoyThe Shirelles
  5. #5Slow TwistinChubby Checker & Dee Dee Sharp
  6. #6Young WorldRicky Nelson
  7. #7Stranger On The ShoreMr. Acker Bilk
  8. #8Lover PleaseClyde McPhatter
  9. #9Shout - Part IJoey Dee & the Starliters
  10. #10Twist, Twist SenoraGary U.S. Bonds

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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