List of Mersey Beat number-one singles

The Mersey Beat is a former British weekly pop music newspaper. Mersey Beat was founded initially as a regional bi-weekley publication on 13 July 1961. In 1963 it began compiling a Top 20 chart based on around 10 stores and became a national paper. The charts and paper became weekly on 24 April 1964 and, following an investment in September 1964 by Brian Epstein, expanded the chart and sample size to become the first publication to announce a Top 100 on 3 December 1964.[1] On 6 March 1965 the paper was rebranded Music Echo and by 16 April 1966 the chart was no longer publishedβ€”on 23 April 1966 the newspaper was incorporated into Disc which became Disc and Music Echo.[1]

In the period when Mersey Beat published a chart there was no official singles chart;[2][3] Record Retailer and the BBC jointly commissioned the British Market Research Bureau (BMRB) chart in February 1969. The first record chart in the United Kingdom was published in November 1952 by NME. The Official Charts Company and Guinness' British Hit Singles & Albums consider this the canonical source for the British singles chart before 10 March 1960 and, after that date, the Record Retailer chart. However, NME continued to compile their own chart and publications Disc and Melody Maker also published charts in this period. Being no universally accepted chart, the BBC used aggregated results of charts from these three publications (and Record Mirror prior to 1952) to compile their own Pick of the Pops chart.[4][5]

Charts compiled by Mersey Beat had thirteen number-one singles that did not reach top spot in the Record Retailer chart; this included two singles from each of The Who and The Hollies. Notably, "19th Nervous Breakdown" reached number one on the Mersey Beat chart as well as Disc, NME, and Melody Maker charts. It topped the BBC's Pick of the Pops aggregated chart and was announced as number one on Top of the Pops; however, because it did not reach number one on the Record Retailer chart it is omitted from The Official Charts Company's canon.[4]

Number-one singles

Key
    β€       – The song did not reach number one on the Record Retailer chart.[6][7][8]
  [nb #]   – The song spent a week at number one where it shared the top spot with another song.
Contents
1964 Β· 1965 Β· 1965 Β· 1966
Artist[nb 1]Single[nb 1]Reached
number 1[nb 1]
Weeks at
number 1[nb 1]
The Beatles "Can't Buy Me Love" 24 April 19641
The Searchers "Don't Throw Your Love Away" 1 May 19642
The Four Pennies "Juliet" 15 May 19641
Black, CillaCilla Black "You're My World" 22 May 19645
The Hollies "Here I Go Again"† 25 June 19641
The Animals "House of the Rising Sun" 2 July 19641
The Beatles Long Tall Sally†[nb 2] 9 July 19641
The Rolling Stones "It's All Over Now" 16 July 19641
The Beatles "A Hard Day's Night" 23 July 19644
Mann, ManfredManfred Mann "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" 20 August 19643
The Kinks "You Really Got Me" 10 September 19642
The Supremes "Where Did Our Love Go"† 24 September 19641
Herman's Hermits "I'm Into Something Good" 1 October 19641
Orbison, RoyRoy Orbison "Oh, Pretty Woman" 8 October 19646
The Kinks "All Day and All of the Night" 19 November 19641
The Rolling Stones "Little Red Rooster" 26 November 19641
The Beatles "I Feel Fine" 3 December 19644
Artist[nb 1]Single[nb 1]Reached
number 1[nb 1]
Weeks at
number 1[nb 1]
Fame, GeorgieGeorgie Fame "Yeh Yeh" 2 January 19652
Twinkle "Terry"† 16 January 19651
The Moody Blues "Go Now" 23 January 19652
The Righteous Brothers "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" 6 February 19652
The Kinks "Tired of Waiting for You" 20 February 19651
The Seekers "I'll Never Find Another You" 27 February 19652
The Rolling Stones "The Last Time" 13 March 19654
Richard, CliffCliff Richard "The Minute You're Gone" 10 April 19651
The Beatles "Ticket to Ride" 17 April 19654
Miller, RogerRoger Miller "King of the Road" 15 May 19652
Trent, JackieJackie Trent "Where Are You Now (My Love)" 29 May 19651
Shaw, SandieSandie Shaw "Long Live Love" 5 June 19651
The Everly Brothers "The Price of Love"† 12 June 19652
The Who "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere"† 26 June 19651
The Hollies "I'm Alive" 3 July 19653
Pitney, GeneGene Pitney "Looking Through the Eyes of Love"† 10 July 19651
The Byrds "Mr. Tambourine Man" 17 July 19652
The Beatles "Help!" 31 July 19654
Sonny & Cher "I Got You Babe" 28 August 19651
The Rolling Stones "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" 4 September 19651
Sonny & Cher "I Got You Babe" 11 September 19652[nb 3]
The Rolling Stones "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" 18 September 19651[nb 3]
Dodd, KenKen Dodd "Tears" 25 September 19652
Mann, ManfredManfred Mann "If You Gotta Go, Go Now"† 6 November 19651
Dodd, KenKen Dodd "Tears" 23 October 19652
The Fortunes "Here It Comes Again"† 6 November 19651
The Rolling Stones "Get Off of My Cloud" 13 November 19651
The Who "My Generation"† 20 November 19652
The Seekers "The Carnival Is Over" 4 December 19651
Artist[nb 1]Single[nb 1]Reached
number 1[nb 1]
Weeks at
number 1[nb 1]
The Beatles "Day Tripper" / "We Can Work It Out" 11 December 19655
The Spencer Davis Group "Keep On Running" 15 January 19663
The Overlanders "Michelle" 5 February 19662
Sinatra, NancyNancy Sinatra "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" 19 February 19662
The Rolling Stones "19th Nervous Breakdown"† 5 March 19661
Small Faces "Sha-La-La-La-Lee"† 12 March 19661
The Hollies "I Can't Let Go"† 19 March 19661
The Walker Brothers "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore" 26 March 19663
The Spencer Davis Group "Somebody Help Me" 16 April 19661

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 The names, singles, dates and duration of the number-ones are from the Mersey Beat.[1]
  2. ↑ This number-one record was not a single but a four-track extended play (EP). Tracks 1, 3, and 4 are cover versions of Little Richard's "Long Tall Sally", Larry Williams' "Slow Down" and Carl Perkins' "Matchbox". The second track was entitled "I Call Your Name".[9] Although the Mersey Beat's criteria for chart inclusion is not known or clearly defined, it was not until 1998 that the UK Singles Chart reduced the number of tracks allowed on a single from four to three.[10]
  3. 1 2 Both Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe" and The Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" were classified jointly as number one on 18 December 1965. In the week before Sonny & Cher had the number-one spot outright and the following week both were deplaced from the top spot by Ken Dodd's "Tears".[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Smith, Alan. "Every No.1 in the 1960s is listed from all the nine different magazine charts!". Dave McAleer's website. Retrieved 4 November 2010.
  2. ↑ Leigh, Spencer (20 February 1998). "Music: Charting the number ones that somehow got away". The Independent. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
  3. ↑ Warwick, Kutner & Brown 2004, p. v.
  4. 1 2 Smith, Alan. "50s & 60s UK Charts – The Truth!". Dave McAleer's website. Retrieved 4 November 2010.
  5. ↑ "Key Dates in the History of the Official UK Charts". The Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 10 January 2008. Retrieved 16 May 2010.
  6. ↑ "All the Number One Singles: 1964". The Official Charts Company. Retrieved 13 June 2010.
  7. ↑ "All the Number One Singles: 1965". The Official Charts Company. Retrieved 13 June 2010.
  8. ↑ "All the Number One Singles: 1966". The Official Charts Company. Retrieved 13 June 2010.
  9. ↑ Eder, Bruce. "Long Tall Sally [EP]". Allmusic. Retrieved 14 May 2011.
  10. ↑ Ashton, Robert (4 April 1998). "CSC acts to solve "fillers" issue". Music Week. ISSN 0265-1548.
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