Songs · UK Singles Chart

Distant Drums

Jim Reeves

Entered Aug 18, 1966 · peaked at #1 on Sep 22, 1966 · 25 weeks on the chart, last seen Feb 2, 1967

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UK Singles Chart · #1, 25 wkBillboard Hot 100 · #45, 7 wk
Record Power
61.5
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
5
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
10
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
25
August 1966 – February 1967

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
Jim Reevesprimary100%61.5

The top ten the week it peaked

See Sep 22, 1966 on the timeline →
  1. #1Distant DrumsJim Reeves
  2. #2All or NothingSmall Faces
  3. #3Too Soon To KnowRoy Orbison
  4. #4I'm a BoyThe Who
  5. #5Yellow Submarine/Eleanor RigbyThe Beatles
  6. #6Little ManSonny & Cher
  7. #7You Can't Hurry LoveThe Supremes
  8. #8God Only KnowsThe Beach Boys
  9. #9Got to Get You Into My LifeCliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers
  10. #10Working In The Coal MineLee Dorsey

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