Songs · UK Singles Chart

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

Neil Sedaka

Entered Jul 19, 1962 · peaked at #7 on Sep 6, 1962 · 16 weeks on the chart, last seen Nov 1, 1962

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Billboard Hot 100 · #1, 28 wkUK Singles Chart · #7, 16 wk
Record Power
32.9
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
6
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
16
July 1962 – November 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
Neil Sedakaprimary100%33.3

The top ten the week it peaked

See Sep 6, 1962 on the timeline →
  1. #1I Remember YouFrank Ifield
  2. #2ThingsBobby Darin
  3. #3Sealed With A KissBrian Hyland
  4. #4Roses Are Red (My Love)Ronnie Carroll
  5. #5Speedy GonzalesPat Boone
  6. #6Guitar TangoThe Shadows
  7. #7Breaking Up Is Hard To DoNeil Sedaka
  8. #8She's Not YouElvis Presley
  9. #9Once Upon a DreamBilly Fury
  10. #10I Can't Stop Loving YouRay Charles

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