Songs · UK Singles Chart

(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay

Otis Redding

Entered Feb 21, 1968 · peaked at #3 on Mar 27, 1968 · 16 weeks on the chart, last seen Apr 15, 2012

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Billboard Hot 100 · #1, 16 wkUK Singles Chart · #3, 16 wk
Record Power
31.6
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
6
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
16
February 1968 – April 2012

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
Otis Reddingprimary100%31.5

The top ten the week it peaked

See Mar 27, 1968 on the timeline →
  1. #1Lady MadonnaThe Beatles
  2. #2DelilahTom Jones
  3. #3(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The BayOtis Redding
  4. #4Cinderella RockefellaEsther & Abi Ofarim
  5. #5Legend of XanaduDave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich
  6. #6What a Wonderful World/CabaretLouis Armstrong
  7. #7RosieDon Partridge
  8. #8CongratulationsCliff Richard
  9. #9Jennifer JuniperDonovan
  10. #10If I Were A CarpenterFour Tops

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