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Santa Claus Is Watching You

Ray Stevens

Entered Dec 15, 1962 · 3 weeks on the chart, last seen Dec 29, 1962

A holiday song: the “Without holiday songs” filter leaves it out.

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Record Power
1.6
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#45
1 week there · Dec 29, 1962
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
3
December 1962 – December 1962

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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
Ray Stevensprimary100%1.6

The top ten the week it peaked

See Dec 29, 1962 on the timeline →
  1. #1TelstarThe Tornadoes
  2. #2Limbo RockChubby Checker
  3. #3Bobby's GirlMarcie Blane
  4. #4Go Away Little GirlSteve Lawrence
  5. #5Big Girls Don't CryThe Four Seasons
  6. #6Return to SenderElvis Presley
  7. #7You Are My SunshineRay Charles
  8. #8Release MeEsther Phillips "Little Esther
  9. #9Zip-A-Dee Doo-DahBob B. Soxx And The Blue Jeans
  10. #10Hotel HappinessBrook Benton

The #1 songs of 1962

1962 in music →

Every other song that reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1962.

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