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Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich, Four Tops, Ike & Tina Turner, Nancy Sinatra, Small Faces and The Spencer Davis Group were among the many artists who achieved their first UK charting top 10 single in 1966. The 1965 Christmas number-one, "Day Tripper"/"We Can Work It Out" by The Beatles, remained at number one for the first three weeks of ...
The UK Singles Chart is the official record chart in the United Kingdom. Prior to 1969 there was no official singles chart; [1] [2] [3] however, The Official Charts Company and Guinness' British Hit Singles & Albums regard the canonical sources as New Musical Express before 10 March 1960 and Record Retailer from then until 15 February 1969 when Retailer and the BBC jointly commissioned the ...
This list shows albums that peaked in the Top 10 of the UK Albums Chart during 1966, as well as albums which peaked in 1965 but were in the top 10 in 1966. The entry date is when the album appeared in the top ten for the first time (week ending, as published by the Official Charts Company, which is six days after the chart is announced).
"Solitary Man" is a song written by American musician Neil Diamond, who recorded the song for Bang Records in late January 1966. It has since been covered many times, notably by T. G. Sheppard , Gianni Morandi , Chris Isaak , Johnny Cash and HIM .
This is The Beatles' one and only live appearance on Top of the Pops, and their first live television appearance in the U.K. since appearing on ABC-TV's Blackpool Night Out in July 1965. No known video recording of the Top of the Pops transmission exists. 2 July – The Beatles become the first musical group to perform at the Nippon Budokan ...
Melody Maker. Cliff Richard was the last artist to top all five main charts, spending five or six weeks at the top of each chart with "The Young Ones". Richard had the third most number-one singles during this era; four as a solo artist and six with The Shadows (one as "The Drifters"). Melody Maker compiled its own chart from 1956 until 1988 ...
The UK singles chart was first compiled in 1969. However, the records and statistics listed here date back to 1952 because the Official Charts Company counts a selected period of the New Musical Express chart (only from 1952 to 1960) and the Record Retailer chart from 1960 to 1969 as predecessors for the period prior to 11 February 1969, where multiples of competing charts coexisted side by side.
The Mamas & the Papas had two songs on the Year-End Hot 100, including "California Dreamin'", the number one song of 1966. The Beatles had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1966. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1966. [1] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated ...