Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Green Onions

Booker T. & The MG's

Entered Aug 11, 1962 · peaked at #3 on Sep 29, 1962 · 16 weeks on the chart, last seen Nov 24, 1962

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Billboard Hot 100 · #3, 16 wkUK Singles Chart · #7, 12 wk
Record Power
29.3
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
August 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
Booker T. & The MG'sprimary100%29.8

The top ten the week it peaked

See Sep 29, 1962 on the timeline →
  1. #1SherryThe 4 Seasons
  2. #2Ramblin' RoseNat King Cole
  3. #3Green OnionsBooker T. & The MG's
  4. #4Monster MashBobby "Boris" Pickett And The Crypt-Kickers
  5. #5SheilaTommy Roe
  6. #6Let's DanceChris Montez
  7. #7Alley CatBent Fabric and His Piano
  8. #8PatchesDickey Lee
  9. #9You Belong To MeThe Duprees
  10. #10Teen Age IdolRick Nelson

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