The next record to peak at 40 is perhaps the most surprising one so far. Roy Orbison is probably the best known artist to appear so far, but he isn't the first big name to appear. The difference is that the other big names have either been declining in popularity or were yet to hit the peak of their popularity.
In the early 60s though, Roy Orbison was at the peak of his career. It came just over 2 months after he peaked at 2 with "Dream Baby". It was his 6th Top 40 hit. Each year in the decade to date he'd had 2 Top 40 hits, the first making the Top 10 and the second missing it.
His debut "Only the Lonely" made number one, so he was yet another artist to have had both a Number 1 and a Number 40.
His next single "Working For The Man" failed to reach the Top 40, peaking at 50 which made him the first act to have had a Number 1, Number 40 and Number 50. He managed to reach the Top 10 with all 3 hits in 1963 and 3 of his 4 hits in 1964 including 2 number ones, before his chart career started to decline in the late 60s.
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