List of UK top-ten singles in 1964
The UK Singles Chart is one of many music charts compiled by the Official Charts Company that calculates the best-selling singles of the week in the United Kingdom.[1] Before 2004, the chart was only based on the sales of physical singles.[2][3] This list shows singles that peaked in the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart during 1964, as well as singles which peaked in 1963 and 1965 but were in the top 10 in 1964. The entry date is when the single appeared in the top 10 for the first time (week ending, as published by the Official Charts Company, which is six days after the chart is announced).
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One-hundred and twelve singles were in the top ten in 1964. Ten singles from 1963 remained in the top 10 for several weeks at the beginning of the year, while "I Could Easily Fall (In Love With You)" by Cliff Richard and The Shadows, and "Somewhere" by P. J. Proby were both released in 1964 but did not reach their peak until 1965. "Dominique" by The Singing Nun (Souer Sourir), "Glad All Over" by The Dave Clark Five, "I Only Want to Be with You" by Dusty Springfield and "Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa" by Gene Pitney were the singles from 1963 to reach their peak in 1964. Twenty-eight artists scored multiple entries in the top 10 in 1964. The Beach Boys, Cilla Black, The Hollies, The Kinks and The Rolling Stones were among the many artists who achieved their first UK charting top 10 single in 1964.
The 1963 Christmas number-one, "I Want To Hold Your Hand" by The Beatles, remained at number one for the first two weeks of 1964. The first new number-one single of the year was "Glad All Over" by The Dave Clark Five. Overall, twenty-three different singles peaked at number-one in 1964, with The Beatles (3) having the most singles hit that position.
Background
Multiple entries
One-hundred and twelve singles charted in the top 10 in 1964, with one-hundred and four singles reaching their peak this year.
Twenty-eight artists scored multiple entries in the top 10 in 1964. Cliff Richard secured the record for most top 10 hits in 1964 with six hit singles, five of which featured his backing group The Shadows.
The Animals were one of a number of artists with two top-ten entries, including the number-one single "House of the Rising Sun". Brian Poole, Freddie and the Dreamers, The Kinks, Manfred Mann and The Supremes were among the other artists who had multiple top 10 entries in 1964.
Chart debuts
Forty artists achieved their first top 10 single in 1964, either as a lead or featured artist. Of these, six went on to record another hit single that year: The Animals, The Kinks, The Nashville Teens, Peter and Gordon, The Supremes and The Swinging Blue Jeans. Cilla Black, Manfred Mann, P. J. Proby and The Rolling Stones all had two more top 10 singles in 1964. The Hollies had three other entries in their breakthrough year.
The following table (collapsed on desktop site) does not include acts who had previously charted as part of a group and secured their first top 10 solo single.
Songs from films
Original songs from various films entered the top 10 throughout the year. These included "Kissin' Cousins" (from Kissin' Cousins) and "A Hard Day's Night", "Move Over Darling" (Move Over, Darling) and "A Hard Day's Night" and "Can't Buy Me Love" (A Hard Day's Night).
Additionally, the original recording of "Swinging on a Star" by Bing Crosby won the Academy Award for Best Original Song after being used in the 1944 film Going My Way. "Diane" was written for the 1927 silent film Seventh Heaven. P. J. Proby released a cover version of "Somewhere" from the film West Side Story, reaching number six at the beginning of 1965.
Best-selling singles
Until 1970 there was no universally recognised year-end best-sellers list. However in 2011 the Official Charts Company released a list of the best-selling single of each year in chart history from 1952 to date. According to the list, "Can't Buy Me Love" by The Beatles is officially recorded as the biggest-selling single of 1964. "Can't Buy Me Love" (4) and "I Feel Fine" (5) both ranked in the top 10 best-selling singles of the decade.
Top-ten singles
- Key
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ‡ | Single peaked in 1963 but still in chart in 1964. |
| ♦ | Single released in 1964 but peaked in 1965. |
| (#) | Year-end best-selling single. |
| Entered | The date that the single first appeared in the chart. |
| Peak | Highest position that the single reached in the UK Singles Chart. |
| Entered (week ending) |
Weeks in top 10 |
Single | Artist | Peak | Peak reached (week ending) |
Weeks at peak |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singles in 1963 | ||||||
| 11 September 1963 | 21 | "She Loves You" ‡ | The Beatles | 1 | 18 September 1963 | 6 |
| 20 November 1963 | 8 | "Don't Talk to Him" ‡ | Cliff Richard and The Shadows | 2 | 11 December 1963 | 1 |
| 27 November 1963 | 8 | "Secret Love" ‡ | Kathy Kirby | 4 | 18 December 1963 | 2 |
| 4 December 1963 | 8 | "You Were Made for Me" ‡ | Freddie and the Dreamers | 3 | 11 December 1963 | 4 |
| 6 | "María Elena" ‡ | Los Indios Tabajaras | 5 | 18 December 1963 | 1 | |
| 11 December 1963 | 12 | "Glad All Over" | The Dave Clark Five | 1 | 22 January 1964 | 2 |
| 9 | "I Only Want to Be with You" | Dusty Springfield | 4 | 15 January 1964 | 3 | |
| 10 | "I Want to Hold Your Hand" ‡ | The Beatles | 1 | 18 December 1963 | 5 | |
| 18 December 1963 | 6 | "Dominique" | The Singing Nun (Soeur Sourire) | 7 | 1 January 1964 | 2 |
| 25 December 1963 | 8 | "Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa" | Gene Pitney | 5 | 8 January 1964 | 2 |
| Singles in 1964 | ||||||
| 15 January 1964 | 7 | "Hippy Hippy Shake" | The Swinging Blue Jeans | 2 | 29 January 1964 | 1 |
| 3 | "Swinging on a Star" | Big Dee Irwin featuring Little Eva | 7 | 22 January 1964 | 2 | |
| 22 January 1964 | 2 | "Stay" [B] | The Hollies | 8 | 22 January 1964 | 2 |
| 29 January 1964 | 9 | "Needles and Pins" | The Searchers | 1 | 5 February 1964 | 3 |
| 7 | "As Usual" | Brenda Lee | 5 | 12 February 1964 | 1 | |
| 7 | "I'm The One" | Gerry and the Pacemakers | 2 | 12 February 1964 | 2 | |
| 5 February 1964 | 3 | "Don't Blame Me" | Frank Ifield | 8 | 19 February 1964 | 1 |
| 12 February 1964 | 9 | "Diane" | The Bachelors | 1 | 26 February 1964 | 1 |
| 5 | "5-4-3-2-1" | Manfred Mann | 5 | 19 February 1964 | 2 | |
| 19 February 1964 | 6 | "I Think of You" | The Merseybeats | 5 | 4 March 1964 | 2 |
| 8 | "Anyone Who Had a Heart" | Cilla Black | 1 | 4 March 1964 | 3 | |
| 26 February 1964 | 2 | "I'm the Lonely One" | Cliff Richard and The Shadows | 8 | 4 March 1964 | 1 |
| 4 March 1964 | 7 | "Bits and Pieces" | The Dave Clark Five | 2 | 11 March 1964 | 3 |
| 2 | "Candy Man" | Brian Poole and The Tremeloes | 6 | 11 March 1964 | 1 | |
| 11 March 1964 | 8 | "Little Children" | Billy J. Kramer with The Dakotas | 1 | 25 March 1964 | 2 |
| 18 March 1964 | 7 | "Not Fade Away" | The Rolling Stones | 3 | 1 April 1964 | 1 |
| 7 | "Just One Look" | The Hollies | 2 | 1 April 1964 | 1 | |
| 3 | "Boys Cry" | Eden Kane | 8 | 25 March 1964 | 1 | |
| 1 | "Let Me Go, Lover!" | Kathy Kirby | 10 | 18 March 1964 | 1 | |
| 25 March 1964 | 10 | "I Love You Because" | Jim Reeves | 5 | 1 April 1964 | 3 |
| 1 April 1964 | 4 | "That Girl Belongs to Yesterday" | Gene Pitney | 7 | 1 April 1964 | 1 |
| 7 | "Can't Buy Me Love" (#1) | The Beatles | 1 | 8 April 1964 | 3 | |
| 8 April 1964 | 9 | "I Believe" | The Bachelors | 2 | 13 May 1964 | 1 |
| 15 April 1964 | 6 | "A World Without Love" | Peter and Gordon | 1 | 29 April 1964 | 2 |
| 3 | "Tell Me When" | The Applejacks | 7 | 22 April 1964 | 2 | |
| 22 April 1964 | 8 | "My Boy Lollipop" | Millie | 2 | 27 May 1964 | 1 |
| 29 April 1964 | 6 | "Don't Throw Your Love Away" | The Searchers | 1 | 13 May 1964 | 2 |
| 6 May 1964 | 4 | "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying" | Gerry and the Pacemakers | 6 | 13 May 1964 | 1 |
| 2 | "Move Over Darling" | Doris Day | 8 | 6 May 1964 | 2 | |
| 1 | "Everything's Alright" | The Mojos | 9 | 6 May 1964 | 1 | |
| 1 | "Mocking Bird Hill" | The Migil Five | 10 | 6 May 1964 | 1 | |
| 13 May 1964 | 6 | "Juliet" | The Four Pennies | 1 | 27 May 1964 | 1 |
| 2 | "Walk On By" [C] | Dionne Warwick | 9 | 13 May 1964 | 1 | |
| 20 May 1964 | 11 | "It's Over" | Roy Orbison | 1 | 1 July 1964 | 2 |
| 6 | "Constantly (L'Edera)" | Cliff Richard | 4 | 10 June 1964 | 1 | |
| 4 | "A Little Loving" | The Fourmost | 6 | 3 June 1964 | 1 | |
| 27 May 1964 | 7 | "You're My World (Il Mio Mondo)" | Cilla Black | 1 | 3 June 1964 | 4 |
| 3 June 1964 | 4 | "The Rise and Fall of Flingle Bunt" | The Shadows | 5 | 10 June 1964 | 1 |
| 4 | "No Particular Place to Go" | Chuck Berry | 3 | 17 June 1964 | 1 | |
| 10 June 1964 | 7 | "Someone, Someone" | Brian Poole and The Tremeloes | 2 | 1 July 1964 | 2 |
| 17 June 1964 | 3 | "Here I Go Again" | The Hollies | 4 | 24 June 1964 | 1 |
| 4 | "My Guy" | Mary Wells | 5 | 24 June 1964 | 2 | |
| 3 | "Shout" | Lulu and The Luvvers | 7 | 24 June 1964 | 1 | |
| 24 June 1964 | 4 | "Hello, Dolly!" | Louis Armstrong & The All Stars | 4 | 1 July 1964 | 1 |
| 1 July 1964 | 3 | "Ramona" | The Bachelors | 4 | 8 July 1964 | 1 |
| 4 | "You're No Good" | The Swinging Blue Jeans | 3 | 8 July 1964 | 1 | |
| 1 | "Can't You See That She's Mine" | The Dave Clark Five | 10 | 1 July 1964 | 1 | |
| 8 July 1964 | 5 | "Hold Me" | P. J. Proby | 3 | 15 July 1964 | 1 |
| 6 | "The House of the Rising Sun" | The Animals | 1 | 15 July 1964 | 1 | |
| 1 | "Nobody I Know" | Peter and Gordon | 10 | 8 July 1964 | 1 | |
| 15 July 1964 | 9 | "It's All Over Now" | The Rolling Stones | 1 | 22 July 1964 | 1 |
| 15 | "I Won't Forget You" | Jim Reeves | 3 | 2 September 1964 | 3 | |
| 1 | "Kissin' Cousins" | Elvis Presley with The Jordanaires | 10 | 15 July 1964 | 1 | |
| 22 July 1964 | 9 | "A Hard Day's Night" | The Beatles | 1 | 29 July 1964 | 3 |
| 6 | "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" | Dusty Springfield | 3 | 29 July 1964 | 2 | |
| 5 | "On the Beach" | Cliff Richard and The Shadows | 7 | 29 July 1964 | 1 | |
| 29 July 1964 | 6 | "Call Up the Groups" | The Barron Knights with Duke D'Mond | 3 | 12 August 1964 | 2 |
| 9 | "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" | Manfred Mann | 1 | 19 August 1964 | 2 | |
| 5 August 1964 | 5 | "Tobacco Road" | The Nashville Teens | 6 | 12 August 1964 | 4 |
| 12 August 1964 | 5 | "I Get Around" | The Beach Boys | 7 | 2 September 1964 | 1 |
| 19 August 1964 | 1 | "It's Only Make Believe" | Billy Fury | 10 | 19 August 1964 | 1 |
| 26 August 1964 | 7 | "Have I the Right?" | The Honeycombs | 1 | 2 September 1964 | 2 |
| 1 | "From a Window" | Billy J. Kramer with The Dakotas | 10 | 26 August 1964 | 1 | |
| 2 September 1964 | 6 | "You Really Got Me" | The Kinks | 1 | 16 September 1964 | 2 |
| 2 | "It's for You" | Cilla Black | 7 | 9 September 1964 | 1 | |
| 9 September 1964 | 4 | "The Crying Game" | Dave Berry | 5 | 9 September 1964 | 2 |
| 7 | "I Wouldn't Trade You for the World" | The Bachelors | 4 | 16 September 1964 | 1 | |
| 16 September 1964 | 8 | "I'm into Something Good" | Herman's Hermits | 1 | 30 September 1964 | 2 |
| 6 | "Rag Doll" | The Four Seasons featuring Frankie Valli | 2 | 30 September 1964 | 2 | |
| 4 | "As Tears Go By" | Marianne Faithfull | 9 | 16 September 1964 | 3 | |
| 23 September 1964 | 8 | "Where Did Our Love Go" | The Supremes | 3 | 7 October 1964 | 3 |
| 30 September 1964 | 10 | "Oh, Pretty Woman" | Roy Orbison | 1 | 14 October 1964 | 3 |
| 7 October 1964 | 7 | "The Wedding (La Novia)" | Julie Rogers with Johnny Arthey & His Orchestra & Chorus | 3 | 4 November 1964 | 2 |
| 14 October 1964 | 1 | "Together" | P. J. Proby | 8 | 14 October 1964 | 1 |
| 5 | "When You Walk in the Room" | The Searchers | 3 | 28 October 1964 | 1 | |
| 3 | "I'm Crying" | The Animals | 8 | 21 October 1964 | 1 | |
| 21 October 1964 | 4 | "We're Through" | The Hollies | 7 | 4 November 1964 | 1 |
| 28 October 1964 | 5 | "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me" | Sandie Shaw | 1 | 28 October 1964 | 3 |
| 5 | "Walk Away (Warum nur, warum?)" | Matt Monro | 4 | 11 November 1964 | 2 | |
| 1 | "How Soon? (Theme from The Richard Boone Show)" | Henry Mancini & His Orchestra | 10 | 28 October 1964 | 1 | |
| 4 November 1964 | 2 | "The Twelfth of Never" | Cliff Richard | 8 | 4 November 1964 | 2 |
| 1 | "One Way Love" | Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers | 9 | 4 November 1964 | 1 | |
| 11 November 1964 | 3 | "Sha La La" | Manfred Mann | 3 | 18 November 1964 | 1 |
| 7 | "Baby Love" | The Supremes | 1 | 25 November 1964 | 2 | |
| 18 November 1964 | 4 | "He's in Town" | The Rockin' Berries | 3 | 25 November 1964 | 1 |
| 5 | "All Day and All of the Night" | The Kinks | 2 | 25 November 1964 | 2 | |
| 5 | "Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um" | Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders | 5 | 2 December 1964 | 1 | |
| 1 | "Google Eye" | The Nashville Teens | 10 | 18 November 1964 | 1 | |
| 25 November 1964 | 1 | "Tokyo Melody" | Helmut Zacharias & His Orchestra | 9 | 25 November 1964 | 1 |
| 1 | "Don't Bring Me Down" | Pretty Things | 10 | 25 November 1964 | 1 | |
| 2 December 1964 | 5 | "Little Red Rooster" | The Rolling Stones | 1 | 9 December 1964 | 1 |
| 7 | "I'm Gonna Be Strong" | Gene Pitney | 2 | 9 December 1964 | 2 | |
| 3 | "There's A Heartache Following Me" | Jim Reeves | 6 | 16 December 1964 | 1 | |
| 9 | "Downtown" | Petula Clark | 2 | 23 December 1964 | 3 | |
| 2 | "Losing You" | Dusty Springfield | 9 | 9 December 1964 | 1 | |
| 9 December 1964 | 8 | "I Feel Fine" | The Beatles | 1 | 16 December 1964 | 5 |
| 16 December 1964 | 7 | "Walk Tall" | Val Doonican | 3 | 23 December 1964 | 2 |
| 3 | "Pretty Paper" | Roy Orbison | 6 | 23 December 1964 | 2 | |
| 23 December 1964 | 3 | "I Understand (Just How You Feel)" | Freddie and the Dreamers | 5 | 30 December 1964 | 2 |
| 3 | "No Arms Can Ever Hold You" | The Bachelors | 7 | 30 December 1964 | 1 | |
| 4 | "I Could Easily Fall (In Love With You)" ♦ | Cliff Richard and The Shadows | 6 | 6 January 1965 | 1 | |
| 30 December 1964 | 5 | "Somewhere (from West Side Story)" ♦ [D] | P. J. Proby | 6 | 20 January 1965 | 1 |
Entries by artist
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The following table shows artists who achieved two or more top 10 entries in 1964, including singles that reached their peak in 1963 or 1965. The figures include both main artists and featured artists. The total number of weeks an artist spent in the top ten in 1964 is also shown.
Notes
- a "Somewhere" reached its peak of number six on 20 January 1965 (week ending).
- b "Stay" re-entered the top 10 at number 8 on 5 February 1964 (week ending).
- c "Walk On By" re-entered the top 10 at number 10 on 10 June 1964 (week ending).
- d "Somewhere" was written by Stephen Sondheim for the soundtrack to West Side Story, first released as a musical in 1957 and adapted into a film in 1961. It was performed by Reri Grist in the musical and as a duet by Richard Beymer and Natalie Wood as the characters Tony and Maria respectively.
- e Figure includes single that peaked in 1963.
- f Figure includes single that peaked in 1965.
- g Figure includes single that first charted in 1963 but peaked in 1964.
References
General
- "Six decades of singles charts". The Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 3 March 2011. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
Specific
- "The Official UK Charts Company". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- Roberts, David (2005). Guinness World Records: British Hit Singles and Albums (18th edition). Guinness World Records Limited. p. 14. ISBN 1-904994-00-8.
- "New singles formats to save the charts". BBC News. 16 October 2003. Retrieved 21 February 2010.
External links
- 1964 singles chart archive at the Official Charts Company (click on relevant week)