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Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Stranger On The Shore

The Drifters

Entered May 12, 1962 · 1 week on the chart

Record Power
0.3
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#73
1 week there · May 12, 1962
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
1
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
The Driftersprimary100%0.3

The top ten the week it peaked

See May 12, 1962 on the timeline →
  1. #1Soldier BoyThe Shirelles
  2. #2Mashed Potato TimeDee Dee Sharp
  3. #3Stranger On The ShoreMr. Acker Bilk
  4. #4Johnny AngelShelley Fabares
  5. #5Good Luck CharmElvis Presley
  6. #6She CriedJay & The Americans
  7. #7Old RiversWalter Brennan
  8. #8Shout! Shout! (Knock Yourself Out)Ernie Maresca
  9. #9Twist, Twist SenoraGary U.S. Bonds
  10. #10Shout - Part IJoey Dee & the Starliters

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