| BEATLE BILLBOARD CHART RECORDS -Hold record for most #1 singles (20)...Runner-up: Elvis (17). The honor roll: 1. I Want to Hold Your Hand (2/64) 2. She Loves You (3/64) 3. Can't Buy Me Love (4/64) 4. Love Me Do (5/64) 5. A Hard Day's Night (8/64) 6. I Feel Fine (12/64) 7. Eight Days a Week (2/65) 8. Ticket to Ride (5/65) 9. Help! (9/65) 10. Yesterday (10/65) 11. We Can Work It Out (1/66) 12. Paperback Writer (7/66) 13. Penny Lane (3/67) 14. All You Need is Love (8/67) 15. Hello, Goodbye (12/67) 16. Hey Jude (9/68) 17. Get Back (5/69) 18. Come Together b/w Something (11/69) 19. Let It Be (4/70) 20. The Long and Winding Road b/w For You Blue (6/70) -Hold record for most singles debuting in top 40 (14)...Latest-"Free as a Bird" (#5, 1995). -In a 14-week period (2/1/64-5/2/64), held down the #1 position...(First: "I Want to Hold Your Hand [2/1/64, 7 weeks]...Second: "She Loves You" [3/21/64, 2]...Third: "Can't Buy Me Love [4/1/64, 5]). -4/4/64, when "CBML" reached #1, occupied top 5 slots on Billboard's Hot 100. The honor roll: 1. Can't Buy Me Love 2. Twist and Shout 3. She Loves You 4. I Want to Hold Your Hand 5. Please Please Me -4/11/64 ("CBML"'s 2d week @ #1), tied for the most slots on Hot 100 (14) w/Elvis (12/56). The honor roll: 1. Can't Buy Me Love 2. Twist and Shout 4. She Loves You 7. I Want to Hold Your Hand 9. Please Please Me 14. Do You Want to Know a Secret? 38. I Saw Her Standing There 48. You Can't Do That 50. All My Loving 52. From Me to You 61. Thank You Girl 74. There's a Place 78. Roll Over Beethoven 81. Love Me Do -Once held the record for biggest leap to #1. "Can't Buy Me Love debuted @ #27 on 3/28/64, then jumped to the summit the following week (Kelly Clarkson's "A Moment Like This" now holds the record, leaping from #52 to #1 [9/28/2002]). -Had six successive #1s ("I Feel Fine", "Eight Days a Week", "Ticket to Ride", "Help", "Yesterday", and "We Can Work It Out") (12/64-1/66), a mark that would be matched by the Bee Gees and Whitney Houston. -Hold the record for the longest single to reach the top (Hey Jude [#1-9 weeks-1968] clocks in at a whopping 7 minutes 11 seconds!) -Once held the record for highest chart debut for a new single. "Jude" initially debuted @ #10 (1968), then "Get Back" matched it (1969). "Let It Be" bested that mark by debuting @ #6 (1970), which would be bested by Michael Jackson's "Scream" b/w "Childhood" (#5, 1995). Since then, 12 records debuted @ #1. -Hold the record for most #1 albums (19) First: MEET THE BEATLES (1964)...Latest: BEATLES 1 (2000) |