Songs · Billboard Hot 100

What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted

Jimmy Ruffin

Entered Aug 20, 1966 · peaked at #7 on Oct 29, 1966 · 17 weeks on the chart, last seen Dec 10, 1966

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Billboard Hot 100 · #7, 17 wkUK Singles Chart · #8, 15 wk
Record Power
29.3
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
4
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
17
August 1966 – December 1966

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
Jimmy Ruffinprimary100%29.5

The top ten the week it peaked

See Oct 29, 1966 on the timeline →
  1. #196 Tears? (Question Mark) & The Mysterians
  2. #2Last Train To ClarksvilleThe Monkees
  3. #3Reach Out I'll Be ThereFour Tops
  4. #4Poor Side Of TownJohnny Rivers
  5. #5Walk Away ReneeThe Left Banke
  6. #6DandyHerman's Hermits
  7. #7What Becomes Of The BrokenheartedJimmy Ruffin
  8. #8Hooray For HazelTommy Roe
  9. #9Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow?The Rolling Stones
  10. #10See See RiderEric Burdon & The Animals

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