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Twenty-three artists scored multiple entries in the top 10 in 1962. Chubby Checker, The Four Seasons, Frank Ifield, Joe Brown and Tommy Roe were among the many artists who achieved their first UK charting top 10 single in 1962. The 1961 Christmas number-one, "Moon River" by Danny Williams, remained at number one for the first two weeks of 1962.
Its first chart was a Top 10 published on 22 January 1955 using figures from 24 shops. [6] The chart was expanded from a Top 10 to a Top 20 on 8 October 1955. [7] In the early 1960s some national newspapers switched to using a chart compiled by Melody Maker and, ultimately, the cost of collecting sales figures by post led to the chart's demise.
Ten artists scored multiple entries in the top 10 in 1962. Bobby Vee, Karl Denver, Kenny Ball, Ray Charles and The Temperance Seven were among the many artists who achieved their first UK charting top 10 album in 1962. The first number-one album of the year was Blue Hawaii by Elvis Presley. Overall, eight different albums peaked at number-one ...
List of UK top-ten singles is a series of lists showing all the singles that have reached the top 10 on the UK Singles Chart in a particular year. Before 1969, there was no single officially recognised chart, but the New Musical Express (1952–1959) and Record Retailer (1960–1969) are considered the canonical source for the data.
The UK singles chart was first compiled in 1969. However, the records and statistics listed here date back to 1952 because the Official Charts Company counts a selected period of the New Musical Express chart (only from 1952 to 1960) and the Record Retailer chart from 1960 to 1969 as predecessors for the period prior to 11 February 1969, where multiples of competing charts coexisted side by side.
Popular music in the UK continues to be dominated by American acts, but a homegrown style of pop music has begun to evolve, led by performers such as Cliff Richard and The Shadows. The Hollies, The Swinging Blue Jeans, The Merseybeats, The Nashville Teens and The Rolling Stones all form during this year. The Beatles begin to be known outside ...
List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1962; List of Cash Box Top 100 number-one singles of 1962; List of Dutch Top 40 number-one singles of 1962; List of European number-one hits of 1962; List of number-one singles of 1962 (France) List of Hot Country Singles number ones of 1962; List of number-one hits of 1962 (Germany)
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 ...