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Songs · Billboard Hot 100

You Never Miss Your Water (Till The Well Runs Dry)

Little Esther Phillips & Big Al Downing

Entered Apr 27, 1963 · 2 weeks on the chart, last seen May 4, 1963

Record Power
0.6
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#73
1 week there · May 4, 1963
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
2
April 1963 – May 1963

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
Little Esther Phillipsprimary50%0.3
Big Al Downingprimary50%0.3

The top ten the week it peaked

See May 4, 1963 on the timeline →
  1. #1I Will Follow HimLittle Peggy March
  2. #2Can't Get Used To Losing YouAndy Williams
  3. #3Puff (The Magic Dragon)Peter, Paul & Mary
  4. #4PipelineChantays
  5. #5He's So FineThe Chiffons
  6. #6If You Wanna Be HappyJimmy Soul
  7. #7Don't Say Nothin' Bad (About My Baby)The Cookies
  8. #8Surfin' U.S.A.The Beach Boys
  9. #9On BroadwayThe Drifters
  10. #10Watermelon ManMongo Santamaria

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