Welcome to the '60s. If you can remember them, you weren’t there.
This year marks a major change in the canon of the British charts. Up to this point, we’ve been using the NME charts. Beginning in March of this year, the Official Charts Company, which maintains the music chart of record in Britain these days, instead recognizes the chart published by Record Retailer as authoritative instead, and it remains the historical chart of record for the rest of the decade until the Official Singles Chart itself is established in 1969. Fortunately, NME and Record Retailer both agree on what the #1 song was for the first months of the year, which makes things slightly less complicated.
That being said, there are 16 songs at #1 this year. What’s your favorite?
Previous polls; 1952-1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
Best US #1 singles: 1955-56 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s All-time
Best of the Rest of the Top 40: 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s All-Time (Tiebreaker)