List of UK top-ten singles in 1964

1960s in music in the UK
Events
For the second successive year, The Beatles (photographed with Ed Sullivan) had the biggest-selling single of the year with "Can't Buy Me Love", which spent three weeks at number-one and finished as the fourth best-selling single of the 1960s. The group had four other top 10 entries in 1964, all of which topped the chart.
Irish group The Bachelors achieved five UK top 10 hits this year, the highest-charting of which was "Diane", which reached number-one for one week in February.
The Rolling Stones entered the top 10 for the first time in 1964, with three singles making the countdown, including the number-one hits "It's All Over Now" and "Little Red Rooster".

The UK Singles Chart is one of many music charts compiled by the Official Charts Company that calculates the best-selling singles of the week in the United Kingdom.[1] Before 2004, the chart was only based on the sales of physical singles.[2][3] This list shows singles that peaked in the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart during 1964, as well as singles which peaked in 1963 and 1965 but were in the top 10 in 1964. The entry date is when the single appeared in the top 10 for the first time (week ending, as published by the Official Charts Company, which is six days after the chart is announced).

One-hundred and twelve singles were in the top ten in 1964. Ten singles from 1963 remained in the top 10 for several weeks at the beginning of the year, while "I Could Easily Fall (In Love With You)" by Cliff Richard and The Shadows, and "Somewhere" by P. J. Proby were both released in 1964 but did not reach their peak until 1965. "Dominique" by The Singing Nun, "Glad All Over" by The Dave Clark Five, "I Only Want to Be with You" by Dusty Springfield and "Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa" by Gene Pitney were the singles from 1963 to reach their peak in 1964. Twenty-eight artists scored multiple entries in the top 10 in 1964. The Beach Boys, Cilla Black, The Hollies, The Kinks and The Rolling Stones were among the many artists who achieved their first UK charting top 10 single in 1964.

The 1963 Christmas number-one, "I Want To Hold Your Hand" by The Beatles, remained at number one for the first two weeks of 1964. The first new number-one single of the year was "Glad All Over" by The Dave Clark Five. Overall, twenty-three different singles peaked at number-one in 1964, with The Beatles (3) having the most singles hit that position.

  1. ^ "The Official UK Charts Company". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  2. ^ Roberts, David (2005). Guinness World Records: British Hit Singles and Albums (18th edition). Guinness World Records Limited. p. 14. ISBN 1-904994-00-8.
  3. ^ "New singles formats to save the charts". BBC News. 16 October 2003. Retrieved 21 February 2010.