We spent years doing the research so that you wouldn’t have to. Here’s just one day during 1964 … starting with the United States:
On April 4, 1964, the Beatles had the Top 5 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart:
On April 4, 1964, the Beatles had the Top 5 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart:
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#1: Can’t Buy Me Love |
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#2: Twist and Shout |
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#3: She Loves You (a former #1 song) |
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#4: I Want to Hold Your Hand (a former #1 song) |
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#5: Please Please Me |
Cashbox magazine, the main competitor to Billboard during this era at ranking the hits, also reported the Beatles as having the five top singles in America, although the positioning was different. According to Cashbox, the lineup went as follows:
1. Twist and Shout
2. Can’t Buy Me Love
3. She Love You
4. I Want to Hold Your Hand
5. Please Please Me
On Billboard’s single chart during this week, the Beatles also occupied the following position:
#31: I Saw Her Standing There
#41: From Me to You
#46: Do You Want to Know a Secret (heading to No. 2)
#58: All My Loving
#65: You Can’t Do That
#68: Roll Over Beethoven
#79: Thank You Girl
Also on the chart this day, at #42, We Love You Beatles, by The Carefrees, and, at #85, A Letter to the Beatles, by The 4 Preps. If a radio was switched on, you were hearing the Beatles.
On the album charts, Meet the Beatles on Capitol Records (derived from the U.K. album With the Beatles), was No. 1 for its eighth week … Just under it at No 2, for six weeks now, was Vee Jee Records release of Introducing the Beatles (known as the Please Please Me album in England).
Meanwhile, in England, on April 4, 1964:
· The single Can’t Buy Me Love, in only its 2nd week on the U.K. singles’ chart, jumps from #8 to #1.
· The single A World Without Love, written by Lennon/McCartney and recorded by Peter and Gordon,
in its 4th week in the U.K. Top 50 singles chart, rises from #16 to #13.
· The single I Want to Hold Your Hand is still in the charts after 18 weeks, having premiered in the Top
Ten before shooting to the top spot for five weeks, then spending one week at #2 and one at #3.
· The Album With The Beatles, in its 19st week on the U.K. album chart (after premiering in second place,
then going to the top), spends its 20th week at #1.
· The album Please Please Me, after spending 30 of its 48 weeks in the U.K. album chart at the top, and
20 weeks in second place, rebounds from third position back to #2.
· The EP All My Loving, in its ninth week in the U.K. EP chart, has its sixth week at #1.
· The EP Twist and Shout, in its 38th week in the U.K. chart, rebounds from #3 to #2.
· The E.P. The Beatles Hits, featuring Love Me Do, Please Please Me, From Me to You and its B-side
Thank You Girl, in its 29th week in the U. K. EP chart, rebounds from #6 to #5.
· The E.P. The Beatles No. 1, with lead track I Saw Her Standing There, in its 22nd week in the U.K. EP chart,
rebounds from #8 to #6.
Re-live the hits of the Beatles, both as a band and as solo artists, in a fierce fight to out-perform one another. See the picture sleeves, find out the chart positions for all the songs, week in and week out, and read the stories behind each of the hits by the greatest band of the rock era, often in the words of the Beatles themselves, and their colleagues, as well as the Music Press from the time.
“The Beatles Hit the Charts,” by Matt Brown, is not a look at the past, but a journey back in time, allowing the reader to witness the amazing success of the Beatles as it happened.
Be there when “The Beatles Hit the Charts.”
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1. Twist and Shout
2. Can’t Buy Me Love
3. She Love You
4. I Want to Hold Your Hand
5. Please Please Me
On Billboard’s single chart during this week, the Beatles also occupied the following position:
#31: I Saw Her Standing There
#41: From Me to You
#46: Do You Want to Know a Secret (heading to No. 2)
#58: All My Loving
#65: You Can’t Do That
#68: Roll Over Beethoven
#79: Thank You Girl
Also on the chart this day, at #42, We Love You Beatles, by The Carefrees, and, at #85, A Letter to the Beatles, by The 4 Preps. If a radio was switched on, you were hearing the Beatles.
On the album charts, Meet the Beatles on Capitol Records (derived from the U.K. album With the Beatles), was No. 1 for its eighth week … Just under it at No 2, for six weeks now, was Vee Jee Records release of Introducing the Beatles (known as the Please Please Me album in England).
Meanwhile, in England, on April 4, 1964:
· The single Can’t Buy Me Love, in only its 2nd week on the U.K. singles’ chart, jumps from #8 to #1.
· The single A World Without Love, written by Lennon/McCartney and recorded by Peter and Gordon,
in its 4th week in the U.K. Top 50 singles chart, rises from #16 to #13.
· The single I Want to Hold Your Hand is still in the charts after 18 weeks, having premiered in the Top
Ten before shooting to the top spot for five weeks, then spending one week at #2 and one at #3.
· The Album With The Beatles, in its 19st week on the U.K. album chart (after premiering in second place,
then going to the top), spends its 20th week at #1.
· The album Please Please Me, after spending 30 of its 48 weeks in the U.K. album chart at the top, and
20 weeks in second place, rebounds from third position back to #2.
· The EP All My Loving, in its ninth week in the U.K. EP chart, has its sixth week at #1.
· The EP Twist and Shout, in its 38th week in the U.K. chart, rebounds from #3 to #2.
· The E.P. The Beatles Hits, featuring Love Me Do, Please Please Me, From Me to You and its B-side
Thank You Girl, in its 29th week in the U. K. EP chart, rebounds from #6 to #5.
· The E.P. The Beatles No. 1, with lead track I Saw Her Standing There, in its 22nd week in the U.K. EP chart,
rebounds from #8 to #6.
Re-live the hits of the Beatles, both as a band and as solo artists, in a fierce fight to out-perform one another. See the picture sleeves, find out the chart positions for all the songs, week in and week out, and read the stories behind each of the hits by the greatest band of the rock era, often in the words of the Beatles themselves, and their colleagues, as well as the Music Press from the time.
“The Beatles Hit the Charts,” by Matt Brown, is not a look at the past, but a journey back in time, allowing the reader to witness the amazing success of the Beatles as it happened.
Be there when “The Beatles Hit the Charts.”
JacobsBrown Press, where yesterday is today … and reading is believing.
