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Home > Beatles diary > Miscellaneous > The Beatles occupy the Billboard Hot 100 top five

The Beatles occupy the Billboard Hot 100 top five

9.00am, Saturday 4 April 1964 (47 years ago)

In an achievement unlikely to ever be equalled, for the week of 4 April 1964 The Beatles occupied the top five positions of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In all they had 12 places on the US chart.

The chart placings were as follows, with the respective record labels in brackets:

  • 1: Can't Buy Me Love (Capitol)
  • 2: Twist And Shout (Tollie)
  • 3: She Loves You (Swan)
  • 4: I Want To Hold Your Hand (Capitol)
  • 5: Please Please Me (Vee Jay)
  • 31: Saw Her Standing There (Capitol)
  • 41: From Me To You (Vee Jay)
  • 46: Do You Want To Know A Secret (Vee Jay)
  • 58: All My Loving (Capitol)
  • 65: You Can't Do That (Capitol)
  • 68: Roll Over Beethoven (Capitol)
  • 79: Thank You Girl (Vee Jay)

There were also two Beatles tribute records on the list: We Love You Beatles by The Carefrees at 42, and A Letter To The Beatles by The Four Preps at 85.

The following week two more Beatles singles entered the chart: There's A Place (at 74) and Love Me Do (81).

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One response to “The Beatles occupy the Billboard Hot 100 top five”

  1. tom says:
    Sunday 18 September 2011 at 6.03am

    All those songs above would be enough to make a Beatles album. All in mono.

    "The Week That Was April 4 1964"

    Add There's A Place and Love Me Do.

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