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Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich, Four Tops, Ike & Tina Turner, Nancy Sinatra, Small Faces and The Spencer Davis Group were among the many artists who achieved their first UK charting top 10 single in 1966. The 1965 Christmas number-one, "Day Tripper"/"We Can Work It Out" by The Beatles, remained at number one for the first three weeks of ...
The UK Singles Chart is the official record chart in the United Kingdom. Prior to 1969 there was no official singles chart; [1] [2] [3] however, The Official Charts Company and Guinness' British Hit Singles & Albums regard the canonical sources as New Musical Express before 10 March 1960 and Record Retailer from then until 15 February 1969 when Retailer and the BBC jointly commissioned the ...
The Beatles released 18 of the best-selling songs of the 1960s. A single is a type of music release defined by the British Official Charts Company (OCC) as having no more than four tracks and not lasting longer than 25 minutes. On 31 May 2010, a retrospective record chart was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 that listed the 60 biggest-selling singles in the United Kingdom during the 1960s. The ...
Twenty-nine artists scored multiple entries in the top 10 in 1967. Aretha Franklin, Bee Gees, Cat Stevens, Engelbert Humperdinck, The Monkees and Stevie Wonder were among the many artists who achieved their first UK charting top 10 single in 1967. The 1966 Christmas number-one, "Green, Green Grass of Home" by Tom Jones, remained at number one ...
Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1966. This is a list of singles that have peaked in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 during 1966. The Beatles, The Lovin' Spoonful, and The Rolling Stones each had five top-ten hits in 1966, tying them for the most top-ten hits during the year.
Bob Dylan, The Seekers, Sonny & Cher, Tom Jones and The Who were among the many artists who achieved their first UK charting top 10 single in 1965. The 1964 Christmas number-one, "I Feel Fine" by The Beatles, remained at number one for the first two weeks of 1965. The first new number-one single of the year was "Yeh, Yeh" by Georgie Fame and ...
Melody Maker. Cliff Richard was the last artist to top all five main charts, spending five or six weeks at the top of each chart with "The Young Ones". Richard had the third most number-one singles during this era; four as a solo artist and six with The Shadows (one as "The Drifters"). Melody Maker compiled its own chart from 1956 until 1988 ...
5 March – The UK's Kenneth McKellar, singing "A Man Without Love", finishes 9th in the 11th Eurovision Song Contest (staged in Luxembourg), which is won by Udo Jürgens of Austria. 6 March – In the UK, 5,000 fans of the Beatles sign a petition urging British Prime minister Harold Wilson to reopen Liverpool's Cavern Club.