List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1964

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This is a list of singles that have peaked in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 during 1964.

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The Beatles scored eleven top ten hits during the year with "I Want to Hold Your Hand", "She Loves You", "Please Please Me", "Twist and Shout", "Can't Buy Me Love", "Do You Want to Know a Secret", "Love Me Do", "P.S. I Love You", "A Hard Day's Night", "I Feel Fine", and "She's a Woman", the most among all other artists.

Top-ten singles

Top ten
entry date
SingleArtist(s)PeakPeak dateWeeks in
top ten
Singles from 1963
December 14"There! I've Said It Again" Bobby Vinton 1January 49
December 21"Popsicles and Icicles" The Murmaids 3January 116
December 28"Forget Him" Bobby Rydell 4January 185
"Talk Back Trembling Lips" Johnny Tillotson 7January 43
Singles from 1964
January 4"Quicksand" Martha and the Vandellas 8January 41
"The Nitty Gritty" Shirley Ellis 8January 113
"Midnight Mary" Joey Powers 10January 42
January 11"Surfin' Bird" The Trashmen 4January 255
January 18"Out of Limits" The Marketts 3February 15
"Hey Little Cobra" The Rip Chords 4February 86
"Drag City" Jan and Dean 10January 182
January 25"I Want to Hold Your Hand" The Beatles 1February 112
"Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um" Major Lance 5February 86
February 1"You Don't Own Me" Lesley Gore 2February 15
"For You" Rick Nelson 6February 153
"Anyone Who Had a Heart" Dionne Warwick 8February 153
February 8"She Loves You"The Beatles1March 2111
February 15"Java" Al Hirt 4February 296
"What Kind of Fool (Do You Think I Am)" The Tams 9February 222
February 22"Dawn (Go Away)" The Four Seasons 3February 226
"California Sun" The Rivieras 5February 294
"Navy Blue" Diane Renay 6March 145
February 29"Please Please Me"The Beatles3March 147
"Stop and Think It Over" Dale & Grace 8March 72
March 7"Fun, Fun, Fun" The Beach Boys 5March 214
"See the Funny Little Clown" Bobby Goldsboro 9March 142
March 14"I Love You More and More Every Day" Al Martino 9March 212
March 21"Hello, Dolly!" Louis Armstrong 1May 913
"Twist and Shout"The Beatles2April 47
March 28"Suspicion" Terry Stafford 3April 117
"My Heart Belongs to Only You"Bobby Vinton9March 282
"Glad All Over" The Dave Clark Five 6April 255
April 4"Can't Buy Me Love"The Beatles1April 46
"The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" Betty Everett 6April 113
April 11"Don't Let the Rain Come Down (Crooked Little Man)" The Serendipity Singers 6May 26
April 18"Do You Want to Know a Secret"The Beatles2May 95
"Dead Man's Curve"Jan and Dean8May 95
April 25"Bits and Pieces"The Dave Clark Five4May 25
"My Guy" Mary Wells 1May 168
May 2"Ronnie"The Four Seasons6May 164
May 9"White on White" Danny Williams 9May 162
May 16"Love Me Do"The Beatles1May 306
"It's Over" Roy Orbison 9May 233
May 23"Chapel of Love" The Dixie Cups 1June 67
"A World Without Love" Peter and Gordon 1June 278
"Love Me with All Your Heart" The Ray Charles Singers 3June 136
"(Just Like) Romeo and Juliet" The Reflections 6May 303
May 30"Walk On By" Dionne Warwick 6June 135
"Little Children" Billy J. Kramer with The Dakotas 7June 133
June 6"P.S. I Love You"The Beatles10June 61
June 13"I Get Around"The Beach Boys1July 49
"People" Barbra Streisand 5June 275
June 20"My Boy Lollipop" Millie Small 2July 45
"Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying" Gerry and the Pacemakers 4July 45
"Diane" The Bachelors 10June 201
June 27"Memphis" Johnny Rivers 2July 116
"Bad to Me"Billy J. Kramer with The Dakotas9June 272
July 4"Rag Doll"The Four Seasons1July 187
"Can't You See That She's Mine"The Dave Clark Five4July 184
July 11"The Girl from Ipanema" Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto 5July 184
"No Particular Place to Go" Chuck Berry 10July 111
July 18"The Little Old Lady from Pasadena"Jan and Dean3August 15
"Dang Me" Roger Miller 7August 14
"Keep On Pushing" The Impressions 10July 182
July 25"A Hard Day's Night"The Beatles1August 18
"Wishin' and Hopin'" Dusty Springfield 6August 15
August 1"Everybody Loves Somebody" Dean Martin 1August 158
"Where Did Our Love Go" The Supremes 1August 229
August 8"Under the Boardwalk" The Drifters 4August 225
"I Wanna Love Him So Bad" The Jelly Beans 9August 82
August 15"The House of the Rising Sun" The Animals 1September 58
"C'mon and Swim" Bobby Freeman 5August 295
August 22"Because"The Dave Clark Five3September 125
"Walk, Don't Run '64" The Ventures 8August 222
"How Do You Do It?"Gerry and the Pacemakers9September 53
August 29"Bread and Butter" The Newbeats 2September 197
September 5"G.T.O." Ronny & the Daytonas 4September 266
September 12"Oh, Pretty Woman"Roy Orbison1September 268
"Remember (Walking in the Sand)" The Shangri-Las 5September 266
September 19"Do Wah Diddy Diddy" Manfred Mann 1October 179
"Dancing in the Street"Martha and the Vandellas2October 177
September 26"It Hurts to Be in Love" Gene Pitney 7October 34
"Save It for Me"The Four Seasons10September 262
October 3"We'll Sing in the Sunshine" Gale Garnett 4October 176
October 10"Last Kiss" J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers 2November 78
"A Summer Song" Chad & Jeremy 7October 173
October 17"Let It Be Me"Betty Everett and Jerry Butler 5November 75
"When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)"The Beach Boys9October 172
October 24"Baby Love"The Supremes1October 318
"Have I the Right?" The Honeycombs 5November 145
October 31"Little Honda" The Hondells 9October 311
"Chug-A-Lug"Roger Miller9November 72
November 7"Leader of the Pack"The Shangri-Las1November 285
"Come a Little Bit Closer" Jay and the Americans 3November 214
"The Door Is Still Open to My Heart"Dean Martin6November 143
November 14"Ringo" Lorne Greene 1December 57
"She's Not There" The Zombies 2December 128
November 21"Time Is on My Side" The Rolling Stones 6December 56
"You Really Got Me" The Kinks 7November 285
November 28"Mr. Lonely"Bobby Vinton1December 129
"Mountain of Love"Johnny Rivers9December 52
December 5"Come See About Me"The Supremes1December 199
"I'm Gonna Be Strong"Gene Pitney9December 123
December 12"I Feel Fine"The Beatles1December 267
"Dance, Dance, Dance"The Beach Boys8December 193
December 19"Goin' Out of My Head" Little Anthony and the Imperials 6December 265
December 26"She's a Woman"The Beatles4December 262

1963 peaks

List of Billboard Hot 100 top ten singles in 1964 which peaked in 1963
Top ten
entry date
SingleArtist(s)PeakPeak dateWeeks in
top ten
November 23"Dominique" The Singing Nun 1December 79
December 7"Louie Louie" The Kingsmen 2December 149
December 14"Since I Fell for You" Lenny Welch 4December 285

1965 peaks

List of Billboard Hot 100 top ten singles in 1964 which peaked in 1965
Top ten
entry date
SingleArtist(s)PeakPeak dateWeeks in
top ten
December 26"The Jerk" The Larks 7January 165

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