{"id":173582,"date":"2025-07-17T12:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T16:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/07\/17\/here-are-connie-francis-biggest-billboard-hits-3\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T12:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T16:19:06","slug":"here-are-connie-francis-biggest-billboard-hits-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/07\/17\/here-are-connie-francis-biggest-billboard-hits-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Here Are Connie Francis\u2019 Biggest Billboard\u00a0Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tConnie Francis<\/a>\u2019 legacy on Billboard<\/em>\u2019s charts predates the Aug. 4, 1958, inception<\/a> of the Billboard Hot 100<\/a>. Once the chart originated, her dominance continued, as she scored historic No. 1s and linked a string of enduring classics.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn spring 1958, Francis\u2019 version of \u201cWho\u2019s Sorry Now,\u201d originally a hit for multiple artists in the 1920s, rose to No. 4 on Billboard<\/em>\u2019s Top 100 chart. Upon the Hot 100\u2019s start, \u201cMy Happiness\u201d became the then-20-year-old\u2019s first top 10 on the ranking, reaching No. 2 in January 1959.<\/p>\n

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\n\tOn the Billboard Hot 100<\/a> dated June 27, 1960, Francis\u2019 \u201cEverybody\u2019s Somebody\u2019s Fool\u201d hit No. 1 \u2014 becoming the list\u2019s first leader by a solo woman<\/a>. That September, her \u201cMy Heart Has a Mind of Its Own\u201d became the third such No. 1 (after Brenda Lee\u2019s \u201cI\u2019m Sorry\u201d).<\/p>\n

\n\tBy the time Francis had tallied her 15th and last Hot 100 top 10 to date, \u201cVacation,\u201d in September 1962, she boasted the most top 10s among women \u2014 with only Elvis Presley having notched more, with 16. By the end of the \u201860s, her top 10 haul (all on the MGM label) still stood as the best among solo women, outpaced overall only by The Beatles (30), Presley (22) and the Supremes (18). Plus, Francis led all women soloists with her three No. 1s during the \u201860s.<\/p>\n

\n\tA key to Francis\u2019 chart success? \u201cIf I love the title, I always record the song,\u201d she told Fred Bronson for The Billboard Book of Number One Hits<\/em>. She shared that when \u201cMy Heart Has a Mind of Its Own\u201d co-writer Howard Greenfield called her to tell her the song\u2019s name, she said, \u201c\u2018That\u2019s a smash! Great title!\u2019 \u2018You haven\u2019t heard the song yet,\u2019 he said. \u2018Doesn\u2019t matter \u2014 it\u2019s a great title!\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFrancis additionally grew her avid fandom thanks to starring movie roles, among them 1960\u2019s Where the Boys Are<\/em>. The film\u2019s title song hit No. 4 on the Hot 100 in March 1961. (Still, she admitted to Bronson, \u201cIf you\u2019ve ever seen any of my movies, you know I\u2019m not an actress \u2026 I was amateurish. I used to keep a book of all the bad reviews because they were hilarious.\u201d)<\/p>\n

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\n\tFrancis\u2019 music is being welcomed by a new generation, notably thanks to the TikTok-fueled virality<\/a> of her 1962 deep cut \u201cPretty Little Baby.\u201d The song reached No. 20 on the Digital Song Sales chart in June 2025 and hit the Hot 100\u2019s Bubbling Under chart, as well as the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. surveys. \u201cI had to listen to it to identify it,\u201d she mused to\u00a0Billboard<\/em><\/a>\u00a0in May of the song that has spawned more than 3 million TikTok videos to date. \u201cThen, of course, I recognized the fact that I had done it in seven languages.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBelow, browse Francis\u2019 10 biggest career hits on the Hot 100. (\u201cWho\u2019s Sorry Now\u201d is not among them, since, as detailed above, its peak run occurred just before the chart began.)<\/p>\n

\n\tConnie Francis\u2019 Biggest <\/em>Billboard Hits chart is based on actual performance on the weekly Hot 100 chart from its Aug. 4, 1958, inception, through July 19, 2025. Songs are ranked based on an inverse point system, with weeks at No. 1 earning the greatest value and weeks at No. 100 earning the least. Due to changes in chart methodology over the years, eras are weighted to account for different chart turnover rates over various periods.<\/em><\/p>\n