It Doesn't Matter Anymore

"It Doesn't Matter Anymore"
Single by Buddy Holly
from the album The Buddy Holly Story
B-side "Raining in My Heart"
Released January 5, 1959
Format vinyl, 7"
Recorded October 21, 1958, Decca Studios, Pythian Temple, New York
Genre Pop
Length 2:01
Label Coral Records 9-62074
Writer(s) Paul Anka
Buddy Holly singles chronology
"Heartbeat"
(1958)
"It Doesn't Matter Anymore"
(1959)
"Peggy Sue Got Married"
(1959)

"It Doesn't Matter Anymore" is a pop ballad written by Paul Anka and recorded by Buddy Holly in 1958. The song reached number 13 as a posthumous hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in early 1959, shortly after Holly died in a plane crash on February 3, 1959. The single was a two-sided hit, backed with "Raining in My Heart". "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" was Holly's last US Top 20 hit and featured the orchestral backing of Dick Jacobs. It was also successful in the United Kingdom, where it became the country's first posthumous number 1 hit.

Track listing

  1. "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" (2:01)
  2. "Raining in My Heart" (2:45)

Chart performance

In the United Kingdom the song reached number 1 on April 24, 1959, and remained in that position for three weeks, becoming the first posthumous number 1 hit in UK chart history.[1] Holly would continue to achieve posthumous chart success in the UK well into the 1960s. In the United States it reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It was Holly's last Top 20 hit in the United States.

Cover versions

See also

References

General

Whitburn, Joel (2000). Top Pop Singles 1955-1999. Record Research Inc. ISBN 0-89820-140-3.

Specific
  1. Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits. Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives. p. 42. ISBN 0-85112-250-7.
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