Global Charts
National Charts
 

Global Single Chart
60 years ago
the most popular tracks worldwide
according to the national single charts
dated to February 29, 1964
compiled and provided by

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week 12
I Want To Hold Your Hand - Beatles
Parlophone / Capitol - 10 weeks at No.1
2 / 2
week 16
She Loves You - Beatles
Parlophone / Swan
4 / -
week 2
Dawn (Go Away) - The 4 Seasons
Philips
5 / 4
week 14
Dominique - Soeur Sourire (Singing Nun)
Philips
7 / -
week 2
Java - Al Hirt
RCA
new.JPG (991 bytes) Please Please Me - Beatles
Parlophone / Vee-Jay
3 / 3
week 5
You Don't Own Me - Lesley Gore
Mercury
new.JPG (991 bytes) California Sun - Rivieras
Riviera
new.JPG (991 bytes) I Only Want To Be With You - Dusty Springfield
Philips
new.JPG (991 bytes) Glad All Over - Dave Clark Five
Epic / Columbia
 

"I Want To Hold Your Hand" catapulted the Beatles at the rock-olymp, initialized their worldwide break-through and started the British Invasion of the American music industry. The rousing smash reminiscent of Tin Pan Alley and Brill Building techniques and an example of modified 32-bar form. "I Want To Hold Your Hand" is writtten on a two-bridge model, with only an intervening verse to connect them. The song has no real lead singer, as Lennon and McCartney sing alternately in unison and in harmony with each other. With advance orders exceeding one million copies in United Kingdom alone it started after the release on November 29, 1963, easily atop the weekly Global Chart and reached short time later also no.1 in almost all countries around the world and finally even the pole position on the Year-End Chart 1964. The song was nominated for the 1964 Grammy Award for Record Of The Year, but the award went to Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz for "The Girl From Ipanema".

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