Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Mama Told Me (Not To Come)

Three Dog Night

Entered May 23, 1970 · peaked at #1 on Jul 11, 1970 · 15 weeks on the chart, last seen Aug 29, 1970

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Billboard Hot 100 · #1, 15 wkUK Singles Chart · #3, 14 wk
Record Power
36.8
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
2
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
9
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
15
May 1970 – August 1970

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
Three Dog Nightprimary100%37.0

The top ten the week it peaked

See Jul 11, 1970 on the timeline →
  1. #1Mama Told Me (Not To Come)Three Dog Night
  2. #2The Love You Save/I Found That GirlJackson 5
  3. #3Ball Of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today)The Temptations
  4. #4Ride Captain RideBlues Image
  5. #5Band Of GoldFreda Payne
  6. #6Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)Melanie & The Edwin Hawkins' Singers
  7. #7(They Long To Be) Close To YouCarpenters
  8. #8The Long And Winding Road/For You BlueThe Beatles
  9. #9The Wonder Of You/Mama Liked The RosesElvis Presley
  10. #10Hitchin' A RideVanity Fare

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Mama Told Me (Not To Come) — Three Dog Night · ChartReign