Talk:List of UK singles chart number ones of the 1960s

message: The Official UK Charts Company would disagree with the charts for this decade. Since they are more widely accepted as choosing the correct charts for the period from 1950 - 1969, I believe just as the 1950's the charts they use should be used. After all, you cannot claim in one article that the Beatles had 17 UK #1's, yet somehow in this article show they had 18 (Please Please Me was NOT a #1 single).
:Please Please Me was a number one single, despite the OCC throwing their weight around. But yeah, ideally we should list number ones for all the major charts, I just haven't got around to adding all the other ones in yet. Bonalaw 14:37, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it would be great if all four of the major UK charts were listed (Please Please Me got to #1 in 3 of the 4, so it was by all means a #1 hit). The NME chart was the most widley used chart for most of the 1960s. Even in 1969 a lot of people still went by the NME chart. "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town" by Kenny Rogers and The First Edition for example reached #1 in the NME chart in 1969 and was dethroned by Stevie Wonder's "Yester me, yester you, yesterday", both of which were widely hailed as #1 hit's of the year, but now the OCC tell us "they only got to #2". 74.65.39.59 17:53, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

text: I don't know of an online source for the Record Mirror charts but I have the number ones on paper; I'll add those when I have time. I believe a list of Melody Maker's no1s was posted on the Chart & Music forum at www.sheepmusic.co.uk recently. The Record Retailer no1s are available on many different sites, of course; [www.everyhit.com] is a useful one which I used in adding the existing RR no1s. The format I proposed to use is demonstrated on the 1950s number ones page but I only ever did one year with the RM charts alongside NME. --Bonalaw 16:45, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

text: Here's the MM no1s up to April '66 from that thread on sheepmusic I mentioned.
*12 Mar 60 Poor Me Adam Faith 1
*19 Mar 60 Running Bear Johnny Preston 2
*02 Apr 60 My Old Man's A Dustman Lonnie Donegan 2
*16 Apr 60 Stuck On You Elvis Presley 1
*23 Apr 60 My Old Man's A Dustman Lonnie Donegan 1
*30 Apr 60 Do You Mind Anthony Newley 1
*07 May 60 Cathy's Clown The Everly Brothers 9
*09 Jul 60 Good Timin' Jimmy Jones 3
*30 Jul 60 Please Don't Tease Cliff Richard And The Shadows 4
*27 Aug 60 Apache The Shadows 4
*24 Sep 60 A Mess Of Blues/The Girl Of My Best Friend Elvis Presley 1
*01 Oct 60 Tell Laura I Love Her Ricky Valance 2
*15 Oct 60 Only The Lonely Roy Orbison 3
*05 Nov 60 It's Now Or Never Elvis Presley 8
*31 Dec 60 I Love You Cliff Richard And The Shadows 1
*07 Jan 61 Poetry In Motion Johnny Tillotson 3
*28 Jan 61 Are You Lonesome Tonight? Elvis Presley 5
*04 Mar 61 Ebony Eyes/Walk Right Back The Everly Brothers 3
*25 Mar 61 Wooden Heart Elvis Presley 6
*06 May 61 You're Driving Me Crazy The Temperance Seven 1
*13 May 61 Blue Moon The Marcels 2
*27 May 61 Runaway Del Shannon 1
*03 Jun 61 Surrender Elvis Presley 3
*24 Jun 61 Runaway Del Shannon 5
*29 Jul 61 Temptation The Everly Brothers 1
*05 Aug 61 Well I Ask You Eden Kane 1
*12 Aug 61 You Don't Know Helen Shapiro 2
*26 Aug 61 Johnny Remember Me John Leyton 6
*07 Oct 61 Kon-Tiki The Shadows 1
*14 Oct 61 Michael The Highwaymen 1
*21 Oct 61 Walkin' Back To Happiness Helen Shapiro 4
*18 Nov 61 His Latest Flame/Little Sister Elvis Presley 3
*09 Dec 61 Tower Of Strength Frankie Vaughan 3
*30 Dec 61 Stranger On The Shore Mr Acker Bilk 2
*13 Jan 62 The Young Ones Cliff Richard And The Shadows 6
*24 Feb 62 Rock-A-Hula Baby/Can't Help Falling In Love Elvis Presley 4
*24 Mar 62 Wonderful Land The Shadows 8
*19 May 62 Nut Rocker B. Bumble And The Stingers 1
*26 May 62 Good Luck Charm Elvis Presley 6
*07 Jul 62 Come Outside Mike Sarne With Wendy Richard 1
*14 Jul 62 A Picture Of You Joe Brown And The Bruvvers 1
*21 Jul 62 I Can't Stop Loving You Ray Charles 1
*28 Jul 62 I Remember You Frank Ifield 8
*22 Sep 62 She's Not You Elvis Presley 2
*06 Oct 62 Telstar The Tornados 6
*17 Nov 62 Lovesick Blues/She Taught Me How To Yodel Frank Ifield 5
*22 Dec 62 Return To Sender Elvis Presley 2
*05 Jan 63 The Next Time/Bachelor Boy Cliff Richard And The Shadows 4
*02 Feb 63 Diamonds Jet Harris And Tony Meehan 4
*02 Mar 63 Please Please Me The Beatles 2
*16 Mar 63 Summer Holiday Cliff Richard And The Shadows 3
*06 Apr 63 Foot Tapper The Shadows 1
*13 Apr 63 How Do You Do It? Gerry And The Pacemakers 3
*04 May 63 From Me To You The Beatles 6
*15 Jun 63 Do You Want To Know A Secret? Billy J. Kramer And The Dakotas 1
*22 Jun 63 I Like It Gerry And The Pacemakers 4
*20 Jul 63 Confessin' (That I Love You) Frank Ifield 3
*10 Aug 63 Sweets For My Sweet The Searchers 2
*24 Aug 63 Bad To Me Billy J. Kramer And The Dakotas 2
*07 Sep 63 She Loves You The Beatles 5
*12 Oct 63 Do You Love Me Brian Poole And The Tremeloes 2
*26 Oct 63 You'll Never Walk Alone Gerry And The Pacemakers 4
*23 Nov 63 She Loves You The Beatles 2
*07 Dec 63 I Want To Hold Your Hand The Beatles 5
*11 Jan 64 Glad All Over The Dave Clark Five 3
*01 Feb 64 Needles And Pins The Searchers 3
*22 Feb 64 Anyone Who Had A Heart Cilla Black 4
*21 Mar 64 Little Children Billy J. Kramer And The Dakotas 1
*28 Mar 64 Can't Buy Me Love The Beatles 3
*18 Apr 64 A World Without Love Peter And Gordon 2
*02 May 64 Don't Throw Your Love Away The Searchers 2
*16 May 64 Juliet The Four Pennies 2
*30 May 64 You're My World Cilla Black 3
*20 Jun 64 It's Over Roy Orbison 2
*04 Jul 64 The House Of The Rising Sun The Animals 1
*11 Jul 64 It's All Over Now The Rolling Stones 1
*18 Jul 64 A Hard Day's Night The Beatles 4
*15 Aug 64 Do Wah Diddy Diddy Manfred Mann 2
*29 Aug 64 Have I The Right The Honeycombs 3
*19 Sep 64 You Really Got Me The Kinks 1
*26 Sep 64 I'm Into Something Good Herman's Hermits 2
*10 Oct 64 Oh, Pretty Woman Roy Orbison 3
*31 Oct 64 (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me Sandie Shaw 1
*07 Nov 64 Oh, Pretty Woman Roy Orbison 1
*14 Nov 64 Baby Love The Supremes 3
*05 Dec 64 I Feel Fine The Beatles 6
*16 Jan 65 Yeh Yeh Georgie Fame And The Blue Flames 1
*23 Jan 65 Go Now The Moody Blues 1
*30 Jan 65 You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' The Righteous Brothers 2
*13 Feb 65 Tired Of Waiting For You The Kinks 1
*20 Feb 65 I'll Never Find Another You The Seekers 2
*06 Mar 65 It's Not Unusual Tom Jones 1
*13 Mar 65 The Last Time The Rolling Stones 4
*10 Apr 65 The Minute You're Gone Cliff Richard 1
*17 Apr 65 Ticket To Ride The Beatles 5
*22 May 65 Where Are You Now (My Love) Jackie Trent 1
*29 May 65 Long Live Love Sandie Shaw 2
*12 Jun 65 Crying In The Chapel Elvis Presley 3
*03 Jul 65 I'm Alive The Hollies 2
*17 Jul 65 Mr Tambourine Man The Byrds 2
*31 Jul 65 Help! The Beatles 4
*28 Aug 65 I Got You Babe Sonny And Cher 2
*11 Sep 65 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction The Rolling Stones 2
*25 Sep 65 Make It Easy On Yourself The Walker Brothers 1
*02 Oct 65 Tears Ken Dodd 5
*06 Nov 65 Get Off Of My Cloud The Rolling Stones 2
*20 Nov 65 The Carnival Is Over The Seekers 4
*18 Dec 65 We Can Work It Out/Day Tripper The Beatles 4
*15 Jan 66 Keep On Running The Spencer Davis Group 2
*29 Jan 66 Michelle The Overlanders 2
*12 Feb 66 These Boots Are Made For Walkin' Nancy Sinatra 1
*19 Feb 66 19th Nervous Breakdown The Rolling Stones 3
*12 Mar 66 Sha La La La Lee The Small Faces 1
*19 Mar 66 The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore The Walker Brothers 3
*09 Apr 66 Somebody Help Me The Spencer Davis Group 2
*23 Apr 66 You Don't Have To Say You Love Me Dusty Springfield 2
--Bonalaw 16:51, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

text: I actually can't tell whether you're serious or joking. --Bonalaw 09:37, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  The OCC's lead should NOT be followed. All major charts are allowed to be included and should be. The chart books now claim The Who "never had a #1 hit", despite the fact "My Generation" was on Top Of The Pops as the #1 single. 74.65.39.59 17:53, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Something

message: I hadn't noticed the thread until two minutes ago, but I hope to have come to a good compromise here. This page documents The Official Charts Company canon and links to:
*List of Record Mirror number-one singles
*List of NME number-one singles from the 1960s
These are feature lists I have made that cover two of the other main charts used in the 1960s. Reliable sources have not been found for the Melody Maker and Disc charts (and forum posts are not reliable). If and when reliable sources can be found, pages can be made for them too. Rambo's Revenge (talk) 13:43, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Current situation

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message: The source that has "I Love You Because" as the biggest selling single is not the Official Charts Company. I think that is based on a points-based system, but based on sales, it is generally accepted that "Can't Buy Me Love" was the biggest seller. It is the Beatles' 3rd biggest selling single ever. In a points-based system, that song does not perform well as it sold large numbers of copies over a short period, and was only 7 weeks inside the top 10.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.191.176.31 (talk) 15:51, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  No. Sugar, Sugar had sold a million when it was awarded a Gold Record in 1970. Nothing erroneous about it. It was still widely acknowledged as having sold the million by 1970 in c. 1990. It is more "Official" revisionism to say that Sugar, Sugar(and Apache) never sold a million copies. Where did you get "945,000" from? Did you have access to the record company books and accounts from 1969/1970?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 197.87.63.169 (talk) 09:18, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Biggest selling single of 1964

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message: What's happened here? The dates given are clearly said to be week-ENDING dates as given by the OCC, but they're in fact the week-beginning dates as given by the OCC. To give an example; The Rolling Stones "Honky Tonk Woman" is listed from 23 - 29 July 1969 on the OCC page (the week it reached No.1). The date here listed is 23 July - the day it REACHED No.1, so obviously not the week-ending. The week-ending date is 29 July as given by the OCC. [See here http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/19690723/7501/].Tuzapicabit (talk) 11:49, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm, I can see what you're saying, but I think the OCC and Guinness would say that the date that "Honky Tonk Women" reached #1 was 23 July 1969, a Wednesday - which is the day the charts were published according to this article. I would hazard a guess that Record Retailer's chart published on 23 July 1969 was incorporating data for their week-ending on that date. The first NME chart was published in the 14 November 1952 issue, but the chart itself said it was for the week-ending 8 November 1952. All a bit confusing, but an old Guinness British Hit Singles book I have lists 23 July 1969 as the date that "Honky Tonk Women" was at #1. Therefore I think the date on this article is correct. --TrottieTrue (talk) 16:49, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I do however think that the dates might need correcting on this article, as I think they have been standardised to Saturdays for each week, when, as noted, the week-ending day varied upon original publication. It would mean longer the gap is not 7 days at various points, but I think the original chart publication dates should be used here. Or has this already been done? It's very confusing. -- TrottieTrue (talk) 02:11, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
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message: Page 6, under Disc News In Brief. 197.87.143.177 (talk) 15:27, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Congratulations by Cliff Richard 

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message: .
Scroll down to "King of the Silver Discs". We see that Richard already has 3 there. And we found "Congratulations" elsewhere. Smith/ASM said thst the DISC awards were "unofficial" and "unreliable" because HE claimed that Cliff Richard only ever got one Gold Record award for a million-seller. But, with minimum effort, I have proved it was at least quadruple Smith/ASM's claims. Wikipedia needs to start recognising DISC record awards under the "Certifications and Sales" for the UK. The info is easy, as DISC Silver and original BPI Silver were thd same... 250 000.  But as no Gold Records were awarded in 1973, a simple piece of programming would make that easy as well. It is outrageous that Beatles' Gold and Silver Records from the 60s are "not official". It looks as though none of those Classics sold the minimum requirement for a Silver Record award! 197.87.135.139 (talk) 11:36, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  More Cliff Richard Gold/Million Sellers 

message: 197.87.135.139 (talk) 15:29, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: See my reply at Talk:List of million-selling singles in the United Kingdom#I have found a page from 1974. It is at remarkably different to this article. for why I think this list is total nonsense. Richard3120 (talk) 22:02, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Here's a link from 1974... 

message: Unfortunately, this section was entirely created based around an enormously inaccurate article written by one "Alan Smith". According to Mr Smith,  the weekly publication DISC awarded Gold Record Awards for releases that sold one million copies in the UK. Smith then listed a total of 16 1960s releases that received a DISC Gold Record for one million UK sales. And then Smith made disparaging comments about DISC, claiming that certain releases received their DISC Gold Record despite actual UK sales falling somewhat short of the one million copies figure. In particular, he seemed to have an obsession with "Sugar, Sugar" by the Archies. It is because of this "Smith List of Sixteen" that this section was created.
The obvious problem with that is simple...DISC never awarded Gold Record Awards. DISC only ever awarded SILVER Record Awards for UK sales of 250,000 copies. There was no such thing as a DISC Gold Record Award. However, starting years before DISC even existed, British record labels would award a Gold Record to releases that had "sold a million". And then, British Music Publications, which included DISC, would report on these Gold Record Awards. But that obviously doesn't mean that the music press reporting on events were themselves responsible for the events. And, in fact, DISC reported on far more than the "Select Sixteen" that Smith's article erroneously states were "DISC Gold Records". I'm not sure if all of these were reported by DISC, but here is a list from early 1970 of British Gold Record Awards from another Music Publication . And NONE of those were presented by DISC. because "DISC Gold Records" did not exist. Only DISC SILVER Records. As such, this "The awarding of sixteen gold records to records released in the 1960s is documented" is a completely absurd statement, which comes entirely from Smith's appalling article on "DISC Silver and Gold(!) Record Awards". This section either needs to be extended to include ALL these actual documented Gold record Awards, or removed in its entirety. 197.87.135.139 (talk) 19:43, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Those million sellers