List of number-one singles from the 1960s (UK)

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This is a list of the number one singles on the UK Singles Chart, during the 1960s. The source for this decade up until March 1960 is the New Musical Express chart, and after that it is the Record Retailer.

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[edit] 1960

  1. Michael Holliday - "Starry Eyed"
    January 29 for 1 week
  2. Anthony Newley - "Why"
    February 5 for 4 weeks
  3. Adam Faith - "Poor Me"
    March 10 for 1 week
  4. Johnny Preston - "Running Bear"
    March 17 for 2 weeks
  5. Lonnie Donegan - "My Old Man's a Dustman (Ballad of a Refuse Disposal Officer)"
    March 31 for 4 weeks
  6. Anthony Newley - "Do You Mind"
    April 28 for 1 week
  7. Everly Brothers - "Cathy's Clown"
    May 5 for 7 weeks
  8. Eddie Cochran - "Three Steps To Heaven"
    June 23 for 2 weeks
  9. Jimmy Jones - "Good Timin'"
    July 7 for 3 weeks
  10. Cliff Richard & The Shadows - "Please Don't Tease"
    July 28 for 1 week
  11. Johnny Kidd & The Pirates - "Shakin' All Over"
    August 4 for 1 week
  12. Cliff Richard & The Shadows - "Please Don't Tease"
    August 11 for 2 weeks
  13. The Shadows - "Apache"
    August 25 for 5 weeks
  14. Ricky Valance - "Tell Laura I Love Her"
    September 29 for 3 weeks
  15. Roy Orbison - "Only The Lonely (Know How I Feel)"
    October 20 for 2 weeks
  16. Elvis Presley - "It's Now Or Never"
    November 3 for 8 weeks
  17. Cliff Richard & The Shadows - "I Love You"
    December 29 for 2 weeks

[edit] 1961

  1. Johnny Tillotson - "Poetry In Motion"
    January 12 for 2 weeks
  2. Elvis Presley - "Are You Lonesome Tonight?"
    January 26 for 4 weeks
  3. Petula Clark - "Sailor"
    February 23 for 1 week
  4. Everly Brothers - "Walk Right Back/Ebony Eyes"
    March 2 for 3 weeks
  5. Elvis Presley - "Wooden Heart"
    March 23 for 6 weeks
  6. The Marcels - "Blue Moon"
    May 4 for 2 weeks
  7. Floyd Cramer - "On The Rebound"
    May 18 for 1 week
  8. The Temperance Seven - "You're Driving Me Crazy"
    May 25 for 1 week
  9. Elvis Presley - "Surrender"
    June 1 for 4 weeks
  10. Del Shannon - "Runaway"
    June 29 for 3 weeks
  11. Everly Brothers - "Temptation"
    July 20 for 2 weeks
  12. Eden Kane - "Well I Ask You"
    August 3 for 1 week
  13. Helen Shapiro - "You Don't Know"
    August 10 for 3 weeks
  14. John Leyton - "Johnny Remember Me"
    August 31 for 3 weeks
  15. Shirley Bassey - "Reach For The Stars/Climb Every Mountain"
    September 21 for 1 week
  16. John Leyton - "Johnny Remember Me"
    September 28 for 1 week
  17. The Shadows - "Kon-Tiki (song)"
    October 5 for 1 week
  18. Highwaymen - "Michael"
    October 12 for 1 week
  19. Helen Shapiro - "Walkin' Back to Happiness"
    October 19 for 3 weeks
  20. Elvis Presley - "Little Sister/(Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame"
    November 9 for 4 weeks
  21. Frankie Vaughan - "Tower of Strength"
    December 7 for 3 weeks
  22. Danny Williams - "Moon River"
    December 28 for 2 weeks

[edit] 1962

  1. Cliff Richard and The Shadows - "The Young Ones"
    January 11 for 6 weeks
  2. Elvis Presley - "Rock-A-Hula Baby/Can't Help Falling in Love"
    February 22 for 4 weeks
  3. The Shadows - "Wonderful Land"
    March 22 for 8 weeks
  4. B. Bumble and the Stingers - "Nut Rocker"
    May 17 for 1 week
  5. Elvis Presley - "Good Luck Charm"
    May 24 for 5 weeks
  6. Mike Sarne with Wendy Richard - "Come Outside"
    June 28 for 2 weeks
  7. Ray Charles - "I Can't Stop Lovin' You"
    July 12 for 2 weeks
  8. Frank Ifield - "I Remember You"
    July 26 for 7 weeks
  9. Elvis Presley - "She's Not You"
    September 13 for 3 weeks
  10. The Tornados - "Telstar"
    October 4 for 5 weeks
  11. Frank Ifield - "Lovesick Blues"
    November 8 for 5 weeks
  12. Elvis Presley - "Return to Sender"
    December 13 for 3 weeks

[edit] 1963

  1. Cliff Richard and The Shadows - "The Next Time/Bachelor Boy"
    January 3 for 3 weeks
  2. The Shadows - "Dance On!"
    January 24 for 1 week
  3. Jet Harris & Tony Meehan - "Diamonds"
    January 31 for 3 weeks
  4. Frank Ifield - "The Wayward Wind"
    February 21 for 3 weeks
  5. Cliff Richard & The Shadows - "Summer Holiday"
    March 14 for 2 weeks
  6. The Shadows - "Foot Tapper"
    March 28 for 1 week
  7. Cliff Richard & The Shadows - "Summer Holiday"
    April 4 for 1 week
  8. Gerry & the Pacemakers - "How Do You Do It?"
    April 11 for 3 weeks
  9. The Beatles - "From Me to You"
    May 2 for 7 weeks
  10. Gerry & the Pacemakers - "I Like It"
    June 20 for 4 weeks
  11. Frank Ifield - "Confessin' (That I Love You)"
    July 18 for 2 weeks
  12. Elvis Presley - "(You're The) Devil In Disguise"
    August 1 for 1 week
  13. The Searchers - "Sweets For My Sweet"
    August 8 for 2 weeks
  14. Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas - "Bad to Me"
    August 22 for 3 weeks
  15. The Beatles - "She Loves You"
    September 12 for 4 weeks
  16. Brian Poole & The Tremeloes - "Do You Love Me"
    October 10 for 3 weeks
  17. Gerry & the Pacemakers - "You'll Never Walk Alone"
    October 31 for 4 weeks
  18. The Beatles - "She Loves You"
    November 28 for 2 weeks
  19. The Beatles - "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
    December 7 for 5 weeks

[edit] 1964

  1. Dave Clark Five - "Glad All Over"
    January 16 for 2 weeks
  2. The Searchers - "Needles and Pins"
    January 30 for 3 weeks
  3. The Bachelors - "Diane"
    February 20 for 1 week
  4. Cilla Black - "Anyone Who Had a Heart"
    February 27 for 3 weeks
  5. Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas - "Little Children"
    March 19 for 2 weeks
  6. The Beatles - "Can't Buy Me Love"
    April 2 for 3 weeks
  7. Peter & Gordon - "A World Without Love"
    April 23 for 2 weeks
  8. The Searchers - "Don't Throw Your Love Away"
    May 7 for 2 weeks
  9. The Four Pennies - "Juliet"
    May 21 for 1 week
  10. Cilla Black - "You're My World"
    May 28 for 4 weeks
  11. Roy Orbison - "It's Over"
    June 25 for 2 weeks
  12. The Animals - "House of the Rising Sun"
    July 9 for 1 week
  13. Rolling Stones - "It's All Over Now"
    July 16 for 1 week
  14. The Beatles - "A Hard Day's Night"
    July 23 for 3 weeks
  15. Manfred Mann - "Do Wah Diddy Diddy"
    August 13 for 2 weeks
  16. The Honeycombs - "Have I The Right"
    August 27 for 2 weeks
  17. The Kinks - "You Really Got Me"
    September 10 for 2 weeks
  18. Herman's Hermits - "I'm Into Something Good"
    September 24 for 2 weeks
  19. Roy Orbison - "Oh, Pretty Woman"
    October 8 for 2 weeks
  20. Sandie Shaw - "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me"
    October 22 for 3 weeks
  21. Roy Orbison - "Oh, Pretty Woman"
    November 12 for 1 week
  22. The Supremes - "Baby Love"
    November 19 for 2 weeks
  23. Rolling Stones - "Little Red Rooster"
    December 3 for 1 week
  24. The Beatles - "I Feel Fine"
    December 10 for 5 weeks

[edit] 1965

  1. Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames - "Yeh Yeh"
    January 14 for 2 weeks
  2. The Moody Blues - "Go Now"
    January 28 for 1 week
  3. Righteous Brothers - "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'"
    February 4 for 2 weeks
  4. The Kinks - "Tired of Waiting for You"
    February 18 for 1 week
  5. The Seekers - "I'll Never Find Another You"
    February 25 for 2 weeks
  6. Tom Jones - "It's Not Unusual"
    March 11 for 1 week
  7. Rolling Stones - "The Last Time"
    March 18 for 3 weeks
  8. Unit Four Plus Two - "Concrete And Clay"
    April 8 for 1 week
  9. Cliff Richard - "The Minute You're Gone"
    April 15 for 1 week
  10. The Beatles - "Ticket to Ride"
    April 22 for 3 weeks
  11. Roger Miller - "King of the Road"
    May 13 for 1 week
  12. Jackie Trent - "Where Are You Now (My Love)"
    May 20 for 1 week
  13. Sandie Shaw - "Long Live Love"
    May 27 for 3 weeks
  14. Elvis Presley - "Crying In The Chapel"
    June 17 for 1 week
  15. The Hollies - "I'm Alive"
    June 24 for 1 week
  16. Elvis Presley - "Crying In The Chapel"
    July 1 for 1 week
  17. The Hollies - "I'm Alive"
    July 8 for 2 weeks
  18. The Byrds - "Mr. Tambourine Man"
    July 22 for 2 weeks
  19. The Beatles - "Help!"
    August 5 for 3 weeks
  20. Sonny & Cher - "I Got You Babe"
    August 26 for 2 weeks
  21. Rolling Stones - "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
    September 9 for 2 weeks
  22. The Walker Brothers - "Make It Easy on Yourself"
    September 23 for 1 week
  23. Ken Dodd - "Tears"
    September 30 for 5 weeks
  24. Rolling Stones - "Get off of My Cloud"
    November 4 for 3 weeks
  25. The Seekers - "The Carnival Is Over"
    November 25 for 3 weeks
  26. The Beatles - "Day Tripper"/"We Can Work It Out"
    December 16 for 5 weeks

[edit] 1966

  1. Spencer Davis Group - "Keep On Running"
    January 20 for 1 week
  2. The Overlanders - "Michelle"
    January 27 for 3 weeks
  3. Nancy Sinatra - "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"
    February 17 for 4 weeks
  4. The Walker Brothers - "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore"
    March 17 for 4 weeks
  5. Spencer Davis Group - "Somebody Help Me"
    April 14 for 2 weeks
  6. Dusty Springfield - "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me"
    April 28 for 1 week
  7. Manfred Mann - "Pretty Flamingo"
    May 5 for 3 weeks
  8. Rolling Stones - "Paint It, Black"
    May 26 for 1 week
  9. Frank Sinatra - "Strangers in the Night"
    June 2 for 3 weeks
  10. The Beatles - "Paperback Writer"
    June 23 for 2 weeks
  11. The Kinks - "Sunny Afternoon"
    July 7 for 2 weeks
  12. Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames - "Get Away"
    July 21 for 1 week
  13. Chris Farlowe - "Out Of Time"
    July 28 for 1 week
  14. The Troggs - "With a Girl Like You"
    August 4 for 2 weeks
  15. The Beatles - "Yellow Submarine"/"Eleanor Rigby"
    August 18 for 4 weeks
  16. Small Faces - "All or Nothing"
    September 15 for 1 week
  17. Jim Reeves - "Distant Drums"
    September 22 for 5 weeks
  18. Four Tops - "Reach Out I'll Be There"
    October 27 for 3 weeks
  19. Beach Boys - "Good Vibrations"
    November 17 for 2 weeks
  20. Tom Jones - "The Green, Green Grass Of Home"
    December 1 for 7 weeks

[edit] 1967

Number one hits from "Record Retailer":

  1. The Monkees - "I'm a Believer"
    January 19 for 4 weeks
  2. Petula Clark - "This Is My Song"
    February 16 for 2 weeks
  3. Engelbert Humperdinck - "Release Me (And Let Me Love Again)"
    March 2 for 6 weeks
  4. Nancy Sinatra and Frank Sinatra - "Somethin' Stupid"
    April 13 for 2 weeks
  5. Sandie Shaw - "Puppet on a String"
    April 27 for 3 weeks
  6. The Tremeloes - "Silence Is Golden"
    May 18 for 3 weeks
  7. Procol Harum - "A Whiter Shade of Pale"
    June 8 for 6 weeks
  8. The Beatles - "All You Need Is Love"
    July 19 for 3 weeks
  9. Scott McKenzie - "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)"
    August 9 for 4 weeks
  10. Engelbert Humperdinck - "The Last Waltz"
    September 6 for 5 weeks
  11. The Bee Gees - "Massachusetts"
    October 11 for 4 weeks
  12. The Foundations - "Baby Now That I've Found You"
    November 8 for 2 weeks
  13. Long John Baldry - "Let The Heartaches Begin"
    November 22 for 2 weeks
  14. The Beatles - "Hello, Goodbye"
    December 6 for 7 weeks

[edit] 1968

  1. Georgie Fame - "Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde"
    January 24 for 1 week
  2. Love Affair - "Everlasting Love"
    January 31 for 2 weeks
  3. Manfred Mann - "Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)"
    February 14 for 2 weeks
  4. Esther & Abi Ofarim - "Cinderella Rockefella"
    February 28 for 3 weeks
  5. Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - "The Legend of Xanadu"
    March 20 for 1 week
  6. The Beatles - "Lady Madonna"
    March 27 for 2 weeks
  7. Cliff Richard - "Congratulations"
    April 10 for 2 weeks
  8. Louis Armstrong - "What a Wonderful World"/"Cabaret"
    April 24 for 4 weeks
  9. Union Gap featuring Gary Puckett - "Young Girl"
    May 22 for 4 weeks
  10. Rolling Stones - "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
    June 19 for 2 weeks
  11. The Equals - "Baby Come Back"
    July 3 for 3 weeks
  12. Des O'Connor - "I Pretend"
    July 24 for 1 week
  13. Tommy James & the Shondells - "Mony Mony"
    July 31 for 2 weeks and August 21 for 1 week
  14. Crazy World of Arthur Brown - "Fire"
    August 14 for 1 week
  15. Beach Boys - "Do It Again"
    August 28 for 1 week
  16. Bee Gees - "I've Gotta Get a Message to You"
    September 4 for 1 week
  17. The Beatles - "Hey Jude"
    September 11 for 2 weeks
  18. Mary Hopkin - "Those Were the Days"
    September 25 for 6 weeks
  19. Joe Cocker - "With a Little Help From My Friends"
    November 6 for 1 week
  20. Hugo Montenegro and his Orchestra - "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"
    November 13 for 4 weeks
  21. The Scaffold - "Lily the Pink"
    December 11 for 4 weeks

[edit] 1969

  1. The Marmalade - "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
    January 1 for 1 week
  2. The Scaffold - "Lily the Pink"
    January 8 for 1 week
  3. The Marmalade - "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
    January 15 for 2 weeks
  4. Fleetwood Mac - "Albatross"
    February 1 for 1 week
  5. The Move - "Blackberry Way"
    February 5 for 1 week
  6. Amen Corner - "(If Paradise Is) Half as Nice"
    February 12 for 2 weeks
  7. Peter Sarstedt - "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?"
    February 26 for 4 weeks
  8. Marvin Gaye - "I Heard It through the Grapevine"
    March 26 for 3 weeks
  9. Desmond Dekker & the Aces - "Israelites"
    April 16 for 1 week
  10. The Beatles with Billy Preston - "Get Back"
    April 23 for 6 weeks
  11. Tommy Roe - "Dizzy"
    June 4 for 1 week
  12. The Beatles - "Ballad of John and Yoko"
    June 11 for 3 weeks
  13. Thunderclap Newman - "Something In The Air"
    July 2 for 3 weeks
  14. Rolling Stones - "Honky Tonk Women"
    July 23 for 5 weeks

Chart compilation changed to Tuesday

  1. Zager & Evans - "In The Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)"
    August 26 for 3 weeks
  2. Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Bad Moon Rising"
    September 16 for 3 weeks
  3. Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg - "Je t'aime... moi non plus"
    October 7 for 1 week
  4. Bobbie Gentry - "I'll Never Fall in Love Again"
    October 14 for 1 week
  5. The Archies - "Sugar, Sugar"
    October 21 for 8 weeks
  6. Rolf Harris - "Two Little Boys"
    December 16 for 6 weeks

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