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Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Don't Make Me Pay For His Mistakes

Z.Z. Hill

Entered Feb 27, 1971 · 5 weeks on the chart, last seen Mar 27, 1971

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Record Power
1.6
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Peak
#62
2 weeks there · first Mar 20, 1971
Top-ten weeks
0
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
5
February 1971 – March 1971

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
Z.Z. Hillprimary100%1.6

The top ten the week it peaked

See Mar 20, 1971 on the timeline →
  1. #1Me And Bobby McGeeJanis Joplin
  2. #2She's A LadyTom Jones
  3. #3Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)The Temptations
  4. #4One Bad AppleThe Osmonds
  5. #5For All We KnowCarpenters
  6. #6Proud MaryIke & Tina Turner
  7. #7Doesn't Somebody Want To Be WantedThe Partridge Family Starring Shirley Jones feat. David Cassidy
  8. #8What's Going OnMarvin Gaye
  9. #9Help Me Make It Through The NightSammi Smith
  10. #10If You Could Read My MindGordon Lightfoot

The #1 songs of 1971

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Every other song that reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1971.

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