Premise: The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne , California , in 1961 . The group had over eighty songs chart worldwide , thirty-six of them US Top 40 hits ( the most by an American rock band ) , four reaching number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart .
Hypothesis: The Beach Boys had the most US Top 40 hits of any 1960's rock band.
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