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Songs · UK Singles Chart

Swinging On A Star

Big Dee Irwin & Little Eva

Entered Nov 21, 1963 · 17 weeks on the chart, last seen Mar 12, 1964

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UK Singles Chart · #7, 17 wkBillboard Hot 100 · #38, 10 wk
Record Power
29.9
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#7
2 weeks there · first Jan 16, 1964
Top-ten weeks
3
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
17
November 1963 – March 1964

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
Big Dee Irwinprimary50%15.2
Little Evaprimary50%15.2

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jan 16, 1964 on the timeline →
  1. #1Glad All OverThe Dave Clark Five
  2. #2I Want To Hold Your HandThe Beatles
  3. #3Hippy Hippy ShakeThe Swinging Blue Jeans
  4. #4I Only Want To Be With YouDusty Springfield
  5. #5She Loves YouThe Beatles
  6. #6Twenty Four Hours From TulsaGene Pitney
  7. #7Swinging On A StarBig Dee Irwin & Little Eva
  8. #8StayThe Hollies
  9. #9You Were Made For MeFreddie And The Dreamers
  10. #10DominiqueThe Singing Nun

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