"Singles Chart from Al Martino's ""Here in My Heart"" on 14 November 1952 to Elvis Presley's ""One Night / I Got Stung"" (Limited Edition Collector's re-issue), 22 January 2005. The 19th edition (2006) was the last in the series. A supposed 20th edition was due to be published in 2007, but apparently the original publishers lost interest in chart reference books after their contract with The Official Charts Company expired, which saw that organisation sell the contract to Virgin. Following the success of the ""Guinness Book of British Hit Singles"" series, the original authors and Guinness quickly turned to other"
"12 hit parade, which was topped by ""Here in My Heart"" by Al Martino. ""NME""s chart was published each week in its eponymous magazine. The sources, in accordance with the official canon of the Official Charts Company, are the ""New Musical Express"" chart from 1952 to 1960; the ""Record Retailer"" chart from 1960 to 1969; and the Official UK Singles Chart from 1969 onwards. The calendar year that has featured the most UK number ones is 2000, which featured 42 singles reaching the top spot; the year with the fewest number ones is 2016, with 10 songs, followed by 1954,"
"August 22, 1952, and lasted 12 weeks on the chart, peaking at No. 4. A cover version by Jo Stafford became the most popular version. Issued by Columbia Records as catalog number 39811, it was Stafford's biggest hit, topping the charts in both the United States and the United Kingdom (the first song by a female singer to top the UK Singles Chart). It first entered the US chart on August 1, 1952 and remained there for 24 weeks. In the UK, it appeared in the first ever UK chart of 14 November 1952 (then a top 12) and reached"
"Lists of UK Albums Chart number ones This is a list of the number one hits in the UK Albums Chart, from its inception in 1956 to the present. The sources are the ""Record Mirror"" chart from 1956 to the end of 1958, the ""Melody Maker"" chart from November 1958 to March 1960, the ""Record Retailer"" chart from March 1960 to March 1972 and the ""Music Week"" chart from then onwards. In January 1989 the compilation album chart started, and compilation albums were excluded from the main chart. The first number one album was Frank Sinatra's ""Songs for Swingin' Lovers""."
"Hit parade A hit parade is a ranked list of the most popular recordings at a given point in time, usually determined by sales and/or airplay. The term originated in the 1930s; ""Billboard"" magazine published its first music hit parade on January 4, 1936. It has also been used by broadcast programs which featured hit (sheet music and record) tunes such as ""Your Hit Parade"", which aired on radio and television in the United States from 1935 through the 1950s. Hit tunes were originally published as sheet music, so many artists were encouraged to introduce or promote a tune in"
"1952 in British music This is a summary of 1952 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. This year was a turning point for music in not only the UK, but all over the world. The first official UK Singles Chart began in November 1952, compiled by the ""NME"". This made the United Kingdom the first country in the world to have an official singles chart and created it in many other countries, with the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 era beginning in 1958 in the U.S. The singles chart quickly became a phenomenon and record"
"compiled its own chart based on an average of the music papers of the time; many songs announced as having reached number one on BBC Radio and ""Top of the Pops"" prior to 1969 are not listed as chart-toppers according to the legacy criteria of the Charts Company. The first number one on the UK Singles Chart was ""Here in My Heart"" by Al Martino for the week ending date 14 November 1952. As of the week ending date 20 December 2018, the UK Singles Chart has had 1347 different number-one hits. The current number-one single is ""Thank U, Next"""
"1952 included Bing Crosby, Guy Mitchell, Mario Lanza, Rosemary Clooney, and Kay Starr, who had hits with ""The Isle of Innisfree"", ""Feet Up"", ""Because You're Mine"", ""Half as Much"", and ""Comes A-Long A-Love"". 1952 in British music This is a summary of 1952 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. This year was a turning point for music in not only the UK, but all over the world. The first official UK Singles Chart began in November 1952, compiled by the ""NME"". This made the United Kingdom the first country in the world to"
"UK Singles Chart in October 1953. It was Laine's second UK chart topper, but unlike his long-lasting ""I Believe"", it only stayed in the chart for eight weeks, after reaching number one in its second week on the chart. That week Laine had three singles in the chart, which at that time consisted only of twelve songs. The following week, Laine's third number one hit in the UK, ""Answer Me"", entered the chart, giving Laine one third of all records on the listing. Moe Bandy and Joe Stampley recorded a new version of the song with the modified title: ""Hey"
"Helen's Hit Parade Helen's Hit Parade is an EP by singer Helen Shapiro. It was released in February 1962 and reached number one in the UK EPs Chart in the week ending 24 March 1962, remaining at the top of the chart for three weeks, and subsequently returning to the top for one further week, ending 26 May 1962. The EP collected the A-sides of Shapiro's three hit singles from 1961, along with the B-side of the first. Martin Slavin was the director of the musical accompaniment, except on ""Walkin' Back to Happiness"" where Norrie Paramor was the musical director."
"in the UK chart. Elvis Presley reached number 2 in the UK chart with ""Heartbreak Hotel"" in 1956 and had nine more singles in the Top 30 that year. His first number 1 was ""All Shook Up"" in 1957 and there would be more chart-toppers for him and for Buddy Holly and the Crickets and Jerry Lee Lewis in the next two years. The initial response of the British music industry was to attempt to produce exact copies of American records. These were often recorded with session musicians and, even if note perfect, lacked the energy and spontaneity that characterised"
"scored a number one hit on the UK Singles chart in 1973. The recording by American country singer Sonny James was released by Capitol Records as catalog number 3602. It first reached the ""Billboard"" chart on January 5, 1957. On the Disk Jockey chart, it peaked at No. 1; on the Best Seller chart, at No. 2; on the Juke Box chart, at No. 4; on the composite chart of the top 100 songs, it reached No. 2. On ""Billboard""'s country music charts, it was a No. 1 hit for nine weeks, and remained the longest-reigning of James' 23 chart-topping"
"Best Seller chart on January 18, 1952, for 2 weeks and peaked at #29. Tiny Hill's version was released by Mercury Records as catalog number 5740. It entered the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart on January 4, 1952 at #30, in its only week on the chart. In the United Kingdom the song was called ""Slow Coach."" The lyric was changed to fit the British title. Pee Wee King also recorded a version with that title. The major British versions recorded by Johnny Brandon and the Ray Ellington Quartet. Yet another recording made by Pee Wee King used the title"
"United States hit parade by Louis Armstrong in 1956, but the song is most closely associated with Bobby Darin, who recorded his version at Fulton Studios on West 40th Street, New York City, on December 19, 1958 (with Tom Dowd engineering the recording). Even though Darin was reluctant to release the song as a single, in 1959 it reached number one on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and number six on the Black Singles chart, and earned him a Grammy Award for Record of the Year. Dick Clark had advised Darin not to record the song because of the perception that,"
"it was the first record to spend ten consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart. Whitfield's version was one of the biggest selling British records in the pre-rock days. It sold more than three and a half million copies worldwide and was a Top 10 hit in America. Authorship of the song was credited to Tulio Trapani (the nom de plume of the song's co-writer and arranger Mantovani) and Lee Lange (Bunny Lewis, Whitfield's producer). Cara Mia ""Cara Mia"" is a popular song published in 1954 that became a UK number 1 and US number 10 hit"
"Adam's Hit Parade Adam's Hit Parade is an EP by Adam Faith, released in December 1960. The EP is a 7-inch vinyl record and released in mono with the catalogue number Parlophone Company, Ltd. GEP 8811. ""Adam""s Hit Parade has the distinction of being the UK's number-one EP Number 1 EP on three different occasions. It first reached the number on spot on December 17, 1960, but was bumped out a week later by Cliff Richard and The Shadows's ""Cliff's Silver Discs."". On January 21, 1961 Faith reclaimed the top spot, only to be evicted a week later by the"
"No. 52, leaping to number 4 the following week and then reaching Number 1 on 1 June 1985. The record also topped the Irish Singles Chart. The single gave Gerry Marsden a 'first' in British recording history, by becoming the first person ever to top the charts with two versions of the same song. The band members included: Bruce Forsyth, Denny Laine, Jim Diamond, Tony Christie, Rick Wakeman, John Conteh, The Barron Knights, Jess Conrad, Kiki Dee, the Foxes, Rolf Harris, Graham Gouldman, Kenny Lynch, Rick Wild of The Overlanders, Keith Chegwin, Tony Hicks, Colin Blunstone, Tim Hinkley, Johnny Logan,"
"1952, earning Martino a gold disc, and later in the year, also reached the top of the UK charts. It was number one in the first UK Singles chart, published by the ""New Musical Express"" on November 14, 1952, putting him into the ""Guinness Book of World Records"". ""Here in My Heart"" remained in the top position for nine weeks in the UK, a record for the longest consecutive run at number one, that has only since been beaten by five other songs. The record's success led to a deal with Capitol Records, and he released three more singles: ""Take"
"in 1955, reaching number one for 10 weeks on the ""Billboard"" chart. It became a gold record. Perez had first recorded this title for the movie ""Underwater!"" (1955), where Jane Russell can be seen dancing to the song. ""Billboard"" ranked this version as the No. 1 song of 1955. The most popular vocal version in the U.S. was by Alan Dale, reaching No. 14 on the chart in 1955. In the United Kingdom, two versions of the song went to number one in 1955. The first was the version by Perez Prado, which reached number one for two weeks. Less"
"Side A Side B Helen's Hit Parade Helen's Hit Parade is an EP by singer Helen Shapiro. It was released in February 1962 and reached number one in the UK EPs Chart in the week ending 24 March 1962, remaining at the top of the chart for three weeks, and subsequently returning to the top for one further week, ending 26 May 1962. The EP collected the A-sides of Shapiro's three hit singles from 1961, along with the B-side of the first. Martin Slavin was the director of the musical accompaniment, except on ""Walkin' Back to Happiness"" where Norrie Paramor"
"Lists of UK Singles Chart number ones The UK Singles Chart is a weekly record chart which for most of its history was based on single sales from Sunday to Saturday in the United Kingdom. Since July 2014 it has also incorporated streaming data, and from 10 July 2015 has been based on a Friday to Thursday week. , 1319 singles have reached number one. The chart was founded in 1952 by Percy Dickins of ""New Musical Express"" (""NME""), who telephoned 20 record stores to ask what their top 10 highest-selling singles were. Dickins aggregated the results into a top"
"UK on 19 February 1971. It was a commercial success and was the band's breakthrough album, selling around 60,000 copies upon release and reaching number 4 in the UK. and number 40 in the US. It has been certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for selling over one million copies. Squire later said a key reason for the success was that there was a postal strike which prevented chart returns being sent, and reducing the available ones to a few retailers in London. Yes had the largest fanbase in these stores, and that allowed a good chart"
"of the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in December, and became their first number one in Britain. That month, the record was their first single certified gold by the RIAA. It came to be widely acclaimed as one of the greatest masterpieces of rock music. In December 1966, the Beach Boys were voted the number-one band in the world in an annual readers' poll conducted by ""NME"", ahead of the Beatles, the Walker Brothers, the Rolling Stones, and the Four Tops. ""Billboard"" said that this result was probably influenced by the success of ""Good Vibrations"" when the votes were cast, together with"
"Complete UK Hit Singles 1952–2006 The Complete UK Hit Singles is a book that lists every single to have made it into the UK Singles Chart since its inception in 1952. As well as providing chart data on each of the hits, the book also provides a brief biography on each hit maker, together with facts and trivia about each hit, such as whether it qualified for a BPI sales award, was featured in a film or contains a sample of another track. The book was written by Graham Betts and is the companion volume to Complete UK Hit Albums."
"Complete UK Hit Singles 1952–2006 The Complete UK Hit Singles is a book that lists every single to have made it into the UK Singles Chart since its inception in 1952. As well as providing chart data on each of the hits, the book also provides a brief biography on each hit maker, together with facts and trivia about each hit, such as whether it qualified for a BPI sales award, was featured in a film or contains a sample of another track. The book was written by Graham Betts and is the companion volume to Complete UK Hit Albums."
"first record by a British group to reach number one in the US Hot 100. British rock and roll declined sharply in the face of the new beat music after 1962. While some of the most successful acts, most notably Cliff Richard, were able to hang on to positions in the chart, British rock and roll virtually disappeared from the chart, as beat and then R&B based groups began to dominate. Many British rock and rollers continued their careers, and occasional bands specialised in the form, but mainstream success for the genre was rare. There have been periodic revivals of"
"Hit Parader Hit Parader was an American music magazine that operated between 1942 and 2008. A monthly publication, it was a general popular music title until the 1980s, when its focus turned to the genres of hard rock and heavy metal.<ref name=""RBP/HP""></ref> The magazine reached its peak during the 1980s as heavy metal music achieved high levels of popularity and commercial success. ""Hit Parader"" was launched in 1942 by Charlton Publications, based in Derby, Connecticut. Along with ""Billboard"", ""Down Beat"" and ""Song Hits"", it was among the first and longest-lasting American music magazines. Consistent with its title – which referred"
"results were then aggregated into a Top 12 chart published in ""NME"" on 14 November 1952, with Al Martino's ""Here in My Heart"" awarded the number-one position. The chart became a successful feature of the periodical; it expanded into a Top 20 format on 1 October 1954, and rival publications began compiling their own charts in 1955. ""Record Mirror"" compiled its own Top 10 chart for 22 January 1955; it was based on postal returns from record stores (which were financed by the newspaper). The ""NME"" chart was based on a telephone poll. Both charts expanded in size, with ""Mirror""s"
"with 11 songs topping the chart, just ahead of 1956, 1962 and 1992, with 12. The act that has achieved the most number ones is American entertainer Elvis Presley, who has topped the chart 21 times – Presley's second number one, ""Jailhouse Rock"" was the first single ever to debut at the top of the chart. The most successful band are The Beatles, who have achieved 17 number ones on the chart. The Beatles' first chart-topper, ""From Me to You"", reached number one in May 1963. In the 1970s the required number of sales needed to top the chart was"
"changed the horns, got different horn players to play on it. But then the tapes got mixed up and Atlantic put out their original version. So that's the hit."" Released by Atlantic Records in April 1966, Sledge's recording reached number one on both the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and R&B singles charts, becoming the first number 1 hit recorded in Muscle Shoals. It is also one of seven number 1 hits to debut on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 at number 100. The single was also a top ten hit in the UK reaching number four on its initial release and ultimately"
"A UK number one for five weeks in December 1972, it was the Christmas number one that year, and has since sold over a million copies in the UK. It also reached #2 on the Australian Singles Chart (Kent Music Report) and #38 on the US, Billboard Hot 100. The song was first recorded by the writer and released in 1969. Kingsley's recording was an unsuccessful single although it was played by a popular MOR station, KMPC, in Los Angeles. However, Kingsley's record was distributed by MGM, the record label the Osmonds recorded for, and that was how Jimmy's mother"
"Hit Parade in the United States in 1939. It sold over one million copies by 1943, and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA. After World War II he was known as the ""Polka King"" in the U.S., and did both big band and folk music arrangements with his orchestra. His ""Liechtensteiner Polka"" was also a hit in the U.S., hitting #16 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in 1957. The follow-up single ""Sweet Elizabeth"" (1958) appeared in all major U.S. charts, nearing the top 40 in Cashbox and Music Vendor. He composed The Cuckoo Waltz in 1969, and the"
"the Billboard magazine charts on March 17, 1950 and lasted six weeks on the chart, peaking at #21. A British version was recorded by Dame Gracie Fields in 1950, and was used on a British television advertising campaign for Rightmove in 2007. Another version was recorded by Betty Harris and a choir, with Art Mooney's Orchestra. The recording was made on February 15, 1950 and released by MGM Records as catalogue number 10660. Bing Crosby and Bob Hope recorded a version together that expanded on the standard lyrics to include verses about making a meal and preparing a goose. In"