 Soon, a pop radio station in Columbus, Ohio, began playing the single, and after finding this out, Bradley saw that the song was being fanned by record distributors across the country so much so that within four months, momentum was building on both the Country and Pop charts.On April 3, the song debuted on the "Billboard" Country chart and began the slowest ascent ever seen.By August 1961, "I Fall to Pieces" peaked at number one on the "Billboard" Country chart and reached number 12 on the "Billboard" Pop chart.