List of Disc number-one singles

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Disc (known from 1964 to 1966 as Disc Weekly, and from 1966 until its demise as Disc and Music Echo) was a British weekly pop music newspaper, published between 1958 and 1975. From its launch until 1967, Disc compiled its own record chart, the third (following New Musical Express , the Record Mirror , and Melody Maker with which it competed). Disc initially compiled its chart from 25 random phone calls to dealers across the United Kingdom, in a manner similar to two of its rivals. The first chart, published in its premiere issue of 8 February 1958, saw "Jailhouse Rock" by Elvis Presley tied with "The Story of My Life" by Michael Holliday for the number-one spot.

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At the outset, Disc's chart was a Top Twenty, compiled by phone from 25 random dealers' returns all over the UK. The chart expanded to a Top 30 on 6 October 1962; between 23 April 1966 and 25 March 1967, the chart was Top 50 before reverting to a Top 30 on 1 April. By 1962, Disc's phone sample pool was 50, expanded to 80–100 by 1964 before dropping to a 30-50 pool toward the end of its run as an independently compiled chart. On 19 August 1967, the paper stopped compiling its own chart (its last number-one single being "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" by Scott McKenzie) and started publishing Melody Maker's Top 30 chart. [1]

Record charts in the UK began life on 14 November 1952, when NME imitated an idea started in American Billboard magazine and began compiling a hit parade. Prior to 15 February 1969, when the British Market Research Bureau chart was established, there had been no universally accepted chart. During this time the BBC used aggregated results of charts from the Mirror and other sources to compile the Pick of the Pops chart. However, according to the Official Charts Company and Guinness' British Hit Singles & Albums, the NME is considered the official British singles chart before 10 March 1960. After that date and until 1969, a chart compiled by Record Retailer is considered the official chart. [2]

The first number-one record on the Disc chart not to have reached the top of the NME chart was "Bird Dog" by The Everly Brothers. [3] From then until the end of Disc's independently compiled chart, they would have an additional eighteen number ones that are not recognised as number one by the Official Charts Company, the last of which was Harry Secombe's version of "This Is My Song" in 1967.

Number-one singles

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*The song did not reach number on the NME (19521960) or Record Retailer (19601969) charts which are considered by the Official Charts Company as the canonical sources.
The song spent a week at number one where it shared the top spot with another song.
Contents
No.Artist [nb 1] Single [nb 1] Reached
number one [nb 1]
Weeks at
number one [nb 1]
1958
1 Elvis Presley "Jailhouse Rock"8 February 19581 † [nb 2]
2 Michael Holliday " The Story of My Life "8 February 19583 † [nb 2]
3 Perry Como "Magic Moments"1 March 19588
4 Marvin Rainwater "Whole Lotta Woman"26 April 19583
5 Connie Francis "Who's Sorry Now"17 May 19586
6 The Everly Brothers "All I Have to Do Is Dream"28 June 19588
7 The Kalin Twins "When"23 August 19585
8 Connie Francis "Stupid Cupid" / "Carolina Moon"27 September 19585
9 The Everly Brothers "Bird Dog" *1 November 19582
10 Lord Rockingham's XI "Hoots Mon"15 November 19588
1959
11 Conway Twitty "It's Only Make Believe"10 January 19593
12 Elvis Presley "I Got Stung" / "One Night"31 January 19593
13 Shirley Bassey "As I Love You"21 February 19593
14 The Platters "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"14 March 19593
15 Russ Conway "Side Saddle"4 April 19593
16 Buddy Holly "It Doesn't Matter Any More"25 April 19594
17 Elvis Presley " A Fool Such As I " / "I Need Your Love Tonight"23 May 19594
18 Russ Conway "Roulette"20 June 19591
19 Bobby Darin "Dream Lover"27 June 19595 [nb 3]
20 Cliff Richard "Living Doll"1 August 19595 [nb 3]
21 Craig Douglas "Only Sixteen"5 September 19595
22 Jerry Keller "Here Comes Summer"10 October 19592
23 Cliff Richard "Travellin' Light"24 October 19596
24 Emile Ford and The Checkmates"What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?"5 December 19592
25 Adam Faith "What Do You Want?"19 December 19592
1960
re Emile Ford and The Checkmates"What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?"2 January 19604
26 Michael Holliday "Starry Eyed"30 January 19601
27 Anthony Newley "Why"6 February 19605
28 Adam Faith "Poor Me"12 March 19601
29 Johnny Preston "Running Bear"19 March 19602
30 Lonnie Donegan "My Old Man's a Dustman"2 April 19603
31 Elvis Presley "Stuck on You" *23 April 19601
32 Anthony Newley "Do You Mind?"30 April 19601
33 The Everly Brothers "Cathy's Clown"7 May 19607
34 Connie Francis "Mama" / "Robot Man" *25 June 19602
35 Jimmy Jones "Good Timin'"9 July 19602
36 Cliff Richard "Please Don't Tease"23 July 19604
37 The Shadows "Apache"20 August 19606
38 Ricky Valance "Tell Laura I Love Her"1 October 19603
39 Roy Orbison "Only the Lonely (Know How I Feel)"22 October 19602
40 Elvis Presley "It's Now or Never"5 November 19607
41 Cliff Richard "I Love You"24 December 19603
1961
42 Johnny Tillotson "Poetry in Motion"14 January 19611
43 Elvis Presley "Are You Lonesome Tonight?"21 January 19615
44 Petula Clark "Sailor"25 February 19612
45 The Everly Brothers "Walk Right Back"11 March 19612
46 Elvis Presley "Wooden Heart"25 March 19613
47 The Allisons "Are You Sure?" *15 April 19612
re Elvis Presley "Wooden Heart"29 April 19611
48 The Marcels "Blue Moon"6 May 19613
49 Elvis Presley "Surrender"27 May 19613
50 Del Shannon "Runaway"17 June 19614
51 Cliff Richard "A Girl Like You" *15 July 19611
52 The Everly Brothers "Temptation"22 July 19611
53 Eden Kane "Well I Ask You"29 July 19611
54 Helen Shapiro "You Don't Know"5 August 19612
55 John Leyton "Johnny Remember Me"19 August 19617
56 The Highwaymen "Michael (Row the Boat)"7 October 19612
57 Helen Shapiro "Walkin' Back to Happiness"21 October 19613
58 Elvis Presley "His Latest Flame"11 November 19614
59 Frankie Vaughan "Tower of Strength"9 December 19615
1962
60 Acker Bilk "Stranger on the Shore" *6 January 19621
61 Cliff Richard " The Young Ones "13 January 19625
62 Elvis Presley "Rock-A-Hula Baby" / "Can't Help Falling in Love"17 February 19623
63 Kenny Ball "March of the Siamese Children" *10 March 19622
64 The Shadows "Wonderful Land"24 March 19627
65 B. Bumble and the Stingers "Nut Rocker"12 May 19621
66 Elvis Presley "Good Luck Charm"19 May 19627
67 Joe Brown " A Picture of You " *7 July 19621
68 Ray Charles "I Can't Stop Loving You"14 July 19621
69 Frank Ifield "I Remember You"21 July 19625
70 Pat Boone "Speedy Gonzales" *25 August 19622
71 Elvis Presley "She's Not You"8 September 19624
72 The Tornados "Telstar"6 October 19625
73 Frank Ifield "Lovesick Blues"10 November 19625
74 Elvis Presley "Return to Sender"15 December 19622
75 Cliff Richard " The Next Time " / "Bachelor Boy"29 December 19625
1963
76 Jet Harris and Tony Meehan "Diamonds"2 February 19632
77 Frank Ifield " The Wayward Wind "16 February 19631
78 The Beatles "Please Please Me" *23 February 19632
79 Cliff Richard "Summer Holiday"9 March 19633
80 The Shadows "Foot Tapper"30 March 19631
81 Gerry & The Pacemakers "How Do You Do It?"6 April 19634
82 The Beatles "From Me to You"4 May 19635
83 Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas "Do You Want to Know a Secret" *8 June 19631
84 Gerry & The Pacemakers "I Like It"15 June 19635
85 Frank Ifield "I'm Confessin'"20 July 19632
86 The Searchers "Sweets for My Sweet"3 August 19633
87 Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas "Bad to Me"24 August 19632
88 The Beatles "She Loves You"7 September 19634
89 Brian Poole and The Tremeloes "Do You Love Me"5 October 19633
90 Gerry & The Pacemakers "You'll Never Walk Alone"26 October 19635
re The Beatles "She Loves You"30 November 19631
91 The Beatles "I Want to Hold Your Hand"7 December 19635
1964
92 The Dave Clark Five "Glad All Over"11 January 19642
93 The Swinging Blue Jeans "Hippy Hippy Shake" *25 January 19641
94 The Searchers "Needles and Pins"1 February 19643
95 Cilla Black "Anyone Who Had a Heart"22 February 19643
96 The Dave Clark Five "Bits and Pieces" *14 March 19641
97 Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas "Little Children"21 March 19641
98 The Beatles "Can't Buy Me Love"28 March 19643
99 Peter & Gordon " A World Without Love "18 April 19642
100 The Searchers "Don't Throw Your Love Away"2 May 19642
101 The Four Pennies "Juliet"16 May 19642
102 Cilla Black "You're My World (Il Mio Mondo)"30 May 19643
103 Roy Orbison "It's Over"20 June 19642
104 The Animals "The House of the Rising Sun"4 July 19642
105 The Beatles " A Hard Day's Night "18 July 19644
106 Manfred Mann "Do Wah Diddy Diddy"15 August 19642
107 The Honeycombs "Have I the Right?"29 August 19643
108 Herman's Hermits "I'm Into Something Good"19 September 19643
109 Roy Orbison "Oh, Pretty Woman"10 October 19643
110 Sandie Shaw " (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me "31 October 19642
111 The Supremes "Baby Love"14 November 19642
112 The Rolling Stones "Little Red Rooster"28 November 19641
113 The Beatles "I Feel Fine"5 December 19646
1965
114 Georgie Fame "Yeh Yeh"16 January 19651
115 The Moody Blues "Go Now"23 January 19652
116 The Righteous Brothers "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'"6 February 19651
117 The Kinks "Tired of Waiting for You"13 February 19651
118 The Seekers "I'll Never Find Another You"20 February 19652
119 Tom Jones "It's Not Unusual"6 March 19651
120 The Rolling Stones " The Last Time "13 March 19654
121 Unit 4 + 2 "Concrete and Clay"10 April 19651
122 The Beatles "Ticket to Ride"17 April 19654
123 The Seekers "A World of Our Own" *15 May 19651
124 Jackie Trent "Where Are You Now (My Love)"22 May 19651
125 Sandie Shaw "Long Live Love"29 May 19653
126 Elvis Presley "Crying in the Chapel"19 June 19652
127 The Hollies "I'm Alive"3 July 19652
128 The Byrds "Mr. Tambourine Man"17 July 19652
129 The Beatles "Help!"31 July 19654
130 Sonny & Cher "I Got You Babe"28 August 19652
131 The Rolling Stones " (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction "11 September 19652
132 The Walker Brothers "Make It Easy on Yourself"25 September 19651
133 Ken Dodd "Tears"2 October 19655
134 The Rolling Stones "Get Off of My Cloud"6 November 19653
135 The Seekers " The Carnival Is Over "27 November 19652
136 The Beatles "Day Tripper" / "We Can Work It Out"11 December 19655
1966
137 The Spencer Davis Group "Keep On Running"15 January 19662
138 The Overlanders "Michelle"29 January 19662
139 Nancy Sinatra "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"12 February 19661
140 The Rolling Stones "19th Nervous Breakdown" *19 February 19663
141 Small Faces "Sha-La-La-La-Lee" *12 March 19661
142 The Walker Brothers " The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore "19 March 19664
143 The Spencer Davis Group "Somebody Help Me"16 April 19661
144 Dusty Springfield "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me"23 April 19662
145 Manfred Mann "Pretty Flamingo"7 May 19663
146 The Troggs "Wild Thing" *28 May 19661
147 Frank Sinatra "Strangers in the Night"4 June 19663
148 The Beatles "Paperback Writer"25 June 19662
149 The Kinks "Sunny Afternoon"9 July 19662
150 Chris Farlowe "Out of Time"23 July 19662
151 The Troggs "With a Girl Like You"6 August 19662
152 The Beatles "Yellow Submarine" / "Eleanor Rigby"20 August 19663
153 Small Faces "All or Nothing"10 September 19662
154 Jim Reeves "Distant Drums"24 September 19664
155 Four Tops "Reach Out I'll Be There"22 October 19664
156 The Beach Boys "Good Vibrations"19 November 19662
157 Tom Jones "Green, Green Grass of Home"3 December 19664
158 The Seekers "Morningtown Ride" *31 December 19661
1967
re Tom Jones "Green, Green Grass of Home"7 January 19672
159 The Monkees "I'm a Believer"21 January 19674
160 Petula Clark "This Is My Song"18 February 19672
161 Engelbert Humperdinck "Release Me"4 March 19675
162 Harry Secombe "This Is My Song" *8 April 19671
163 Nancy Sinatra and Frank Sinatra "Somethin' Stupid"15 April 19672
164 Sandie Shaw "Puppet on a String"29 April 19673
165 The Tremeloes "Silence Is Golden"20 May 19673
166 Procol Harum " A Whiter Shade of Pale "10 June 19676
167 The Beatles "All You Need Is Love"22 July 19672
168 Scott McKenzie "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)"5 August 19673

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 The names, singles, dates and duration of the number-ones are from Disc. [3] [4] [5]
  2. 1 2 Elvis Presley's "Jailhouse Rock" and Michael Holliday's "The Story of My Life" were classified jointly as number one on 8 February 1958. The following week "The Story of My Life" claimed the number-one spot outright.
  3. 1 2 Due to a newspaper strike, Disc was not published from 27 June to 8 August 1959; however, the chart details were released retrospectively. [3]

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