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Music History Events: Charts

May 22, 1965 "Ticket To Ride" becomes The Beatles' eighth #1 US single.

May 8, 1965 "Count Me In" makes Gary Lewis and the Playboys the only American act in the US Top 10. Their song is #2 behind "Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter" by Herman's Hermits.

April 24, 1965 Written by Clint Ballard, "Game of Love" by Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders hits #1.

April 10, 1965 Freddie & the Dreamers' "I'm Telling You Now" goes to #1 in the US.

March 16, 1965 "The Last Time" becomes The Rolling Stones' third #1 single in the UK.

March 13, 1965 The Beatles land their seventh #1 hit in America with "Eight Days A Week."

March 6, 1965 The Temptations' "My Girl," co-written by Smokey Robinson, hits #1 in America.

February 6, 1965 The Righteous Brothers' yearning "You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin'," written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil and produced by Phil Spector, hits #1 in America.

January 9, 1965 The Beatles' Beatles 65 jumps from #98 to #1 on the Billboard albums chart in one week. The group has two other entries in the Top 10 as well: A Hard Day's Night (#6) and The Beatles' Story (#7).

January 2, 1965 Elvis Presley's soundtrack LP Roustabout hits #1.

December 14, 1964 In spite of (or, perhaps, because of) being banned by some radio stations, The Kingsmen's "Louie Louie" hits #2 on the Hot 100 (held off the top spot by The Singing Nun's "Dominique").

December 12, 1964 Bobby Vinton's "Mr. Lonely" hits #1.

December 5, 1964 The Beach Boys' Beach Boys Concert album hits #1 for the first of 4 weeks, claiming the top spot for the rest of December.

November 28, 1964 The Shangri-Las teenage tragedy song "Leader Of The Pack" goes to #1 in America.

October 31, 1964 "Baby Love" by The Supremes goes to #1 in America, giving them their second chart-topper (following "Where Did Our Love Go") and making them the first Motown act with two #1 hits.

October 17, 1964 Manfred Mann's version of "Do Wah Diddy Diddy," written by Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, hits #1 in America for the first of two weeks. The song was first recorded in 1963 by the female group The Exciters, who took it to #78.

October 10, 1964 "Leader Of The Pack," a song by the girl group Shangri-Las about a dreamy boy who dies in a motorcycle accident, enters the chart at #86. Despite the bleak subject matter, it rises to #1 at the end of November.

August 4, 1964 The Kinks release "You Really Got Me" in the UK. With a distorted guitar sound accomplished by taking a razor blade to an amplifier, it becomes their first hit, spending two weeks at #1 UK in September.

August 1, 1964 With The Beatles' album A Hard Day's Night already at #1 in America, the title track also hits the top spot, where it stays for two weeks. The film of that name - the first Beatles movie - is released in America 10 days later.

July 18, 1964 The Four Seasons' "Rag Doll" hits #1 for the first of two weeks.

July 4, 1964 Millie Small, part of the British Invasion, reaches #2 in America with "My Boy Lollipop."

May 23, 1964 Ella Fitzgerald's cover of The Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love" enters the UK chart, making her the first outside artist to have a hit with a Beatles song.

May 16, 1964 Mary Wells' "My Guy" hits #1 for the first of two weeks.

May 2, 1964 The Beatles Second Album, a collection of B-sides and sundry tracks yet to find a home in the States, goes to #1 in America, replacing their first album, Meet the Beatles!More

March 21, 1964 With Beatlemania rising, The Beatles land their second #1 hit in America with "She Loves You" supplanting their first chart-topper, "I Want To Hold Your Hand."

January 11, 1964 Billboard publishes its first Country and Western Albums chart. Johnny Cash gets the first #1 with Ring of Fire.

January 4, 1964 Bobby Vinton's "There! I've Said It Again" hits #1 in the US for the first of four weeks.

December 18, 1963 "I Want To Hold Your Hand" replaces "She Loves You" at #1 on the UK singles chart.

November 2, 1963 Folk music is in the air as Peter, Paul and Mary's album In The Wind hits #1 in America.

October 25, 1963 Peter, Paul and Mary's self-titled LP hits #1.