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1967. 1968. 1969. 1970s →. The Beatles earned the most number-one hits (18 songs) and remained the longest at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart (55 weeks) during 1958–1969. Elvis Presley remained at the top of the Billboard number-one singles chart for 22 weeks during 1958–1969. The Supremes scored 12 number-one singles during 1958 ...
This article includes an overview of the events and trends in popular music in the 1960s. The Miracles pictured in 1962. Known as Motown 's " soul supergroup", The Miracles were one of the first commercially successful acts of the 1960s and propelled both Motown and its Tamla label to international fame. In North America and Europe the decade ...
Billboard. Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1960. "Theme from A Summer Place" by Percy Faith was the number one song of 1960. Bobby Rydell had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100. Brenda Lee had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100. Connie Francis had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100. The Everly Brothers had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100.
US BB 1 – Aug 1960, US BB 1 of 1960, US CashBox 1 of 1962, Canada 1 – Aug 1960, POP 1 of 1960, UK 5 – Nov 1975, South Africa 7 of 1961, DDD 9 of 1960, RYM 12 of 1960, RIAA 32, Italy 38 of 1962, Party 46 of 2007, Acclaimed 140, Germany 396 of the 1960s, Rolling Stone 451. 4. The Drifters. Save the Last Dance for Me. 1960.
Music portal. v. t. e. Popular music of the United States in the 1960s became innately tied up into causes, opposing certain ideas, influenced by the sexual revolution, feminism, Black Power and environmentalism. This trend took place in a tumultuous period of massive public, unrest in the United States which consisted of the Cold War, Vietnam ...
List of. Billboard. Hot 100 number ones of 1960. These are the Billboard Hot 100 number one hits of 1960. That year, 12 acts achieved their first number ones, such as Marty Robbins, Johnny Preston, Mark Dinning, Connie Francis, The Hollywood Argyles, Brenda Lee, Brian Hyland, Chubby Checker, Larry Verne, The Drifters, Ray Charles, and Maurice ...
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 ...
This is a list of singles that have spent time in the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 during 1960, presented chronologically from the year's first top-ten list from the issue dated January 4, 1960, to each song's entry date through the final published issue of the year.