"Belonging to Someone" is a popular

Popular music

Popular music belongs to any of a number of musical genres "having wide appeal" and is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. It stands in contrast to both art music and traditional music, which are typically disseminated academically or orally to smaller, local...

 song

Song

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, written by Al Hoffman

Al Hoffman

Al Hoffman , a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame since 1984, was a hit songwriter active in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, usually co-writing with others and responsible for number one hits through each decade, many of which are still sung and recorded today...

 and Dick Manning

Dick Manning

Dick Manning was a Russian-born American songwriter, best known for his many collaborations with Al Hoffman....

 and published in 1958

1958 in music

-Events:*February - 45,000 peoplein one week watch performances of "rokabirī" music by Japanese singers at the first Nichigeki Western Carnival....

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It was popularized by Patti Page

Patti Page

Clara Ann Fowler , known by her professional name Patti Page, is an American singer, one of the best-known female artists in traditional pop music. She was the best-selling female artist of the 1950s, and has sold over 100 million records...

 in 1958

1958 in music

-Events:*February - 45,000 peoplein one week watch performances of "rokabirī" music by Japanese singers at the first Nichigeki Western Carnival....

. The Page recording was released by Mercury Records

Mercury Records

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 as catalog number

Catalog numbering systems for single records

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 71247. It first reached the Billboard magazine charts

Billboard charts

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on February 10, 1958. On the Disk Jockey chart, it peaked at #13; on the Best Seller chart, at #32; on the composite chart of the top 100 songs, it reached #34.