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The Happy Song (Dum-Dum)

Otis Redding

Entered May 29, 1968 · 5 weeks on the chart, last seen Jun 26, 1968

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Billboard Hot 100 · #25, 8 wkUK Singles Chart · #24, 5 wk
Record Power
6.6
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#24
1 week there · Jun 19, 1968
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
5
May 1968 – June 1968

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
Otis Reddingprimary100%6.6

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jun 19, 1968 on the timeline →
  1. #1Jumpin' Jack FlashThe Rolling Stones
  2. #2Young GirlThe Union Gap feat. Gary Puckett
  3. #3Blue EyesDon Partridge
  4. #4Hurdy Gurdy ManDonovan
  5. #5This Wheel's on FireJulie Driscoll and the Brian Auger Trinity
  6. #6HoneyBobby Goldsboro
  7. #7Baby, Come BackThe Equals
  8. #8Do You Know The Way To San JoséDionne Warwick
  9. #9I PretendDes O'Connor
  10. #10A Man Without LoveEngelbert Humperdinck

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Every other song that reached #1 on the UK Singles Chart in 1968.

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