Songs · UK Singles Chart

Please Please Me

The Beatles

Entered Jan 17, 1963 · peaked at #2 on Feb 21, 1963 · 18 weeks on the chart, last seen May 16, 1963

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UK Singles Chart · #2, 18 wkBillboard Hot 100 · #3, 13 wk
Record Power
40.4
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
8
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
18
January 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 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
The Beatlesprimary100%39.3

The top ten the week it peaked

See Feb 21, 1963 on the timeline →
  1. #1Wayward WindFrank Ifield
  2. #2Please Please MeThe Beatles
  3. #3DiamondsJet Harris & Tony Meehan
  4. #4The Night Has A Thousand EyesBobby Vee
  5. #5Little Town FlirtDel Shannon
  6. #6Loop-De-LoopFrankie Vaughan
  7. #7All Alone Am IBrenda Lee
  8. #8Island of DreamsThe Springfields
  9. #9The Next Time/Bachelor BoyCliff Richard
  10. #10SukiyakiKenny Ball and his Jazzmen

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