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25 Biggest Songs of the 1960s

Top 25 Songs of the 1960s: Billboard Hits, Beatles Anthems, Soul Classics, Easy Listening, Teen Pop, and Pop-Culture Memory The Top 25 songs of the 1960s show a decade in transition. The early sixties still carried 1950s pop, teen idols, instrumental hits, easy listening, and dance crazes. By the end of the decade, The Beatles,

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The Billboard Number One Hits Of 1968

1968 Billboard Number One Hits: Every Hot 100 Chart-TopperThe 1968 Billboard Number One Hits list captured a year of pop contrasts: British rock, blue-eyed soul, bubblegum psychedelia, instrumental pop, Motown, country crossover, Broadway-connected songs, and some of the most famous records of the decade. The Beatles opened the year with Hello, Goodbye, Otis Redding made

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The Billboard Number One Hits Of 1963

1963 Billboard Number One Hits: Every Hot 100 Chart-TopperThe 1963 Billboard Number One Hits list captured the final full pre-Beatles year on the American pop chart. Folk-pop, girl groups, surf music, teen idols, early soul, instrumentals, novelty-leaning pop, and smooth ballads all reached No. 1 before the British Invasion changed the rules in 1964. The

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The Billboard Number One Hits Of 1962

1962 Billboard Number One Hits: Every Hot 100 Chart-TopperThe 1962 Billboard Number One Hits list captured American pop just before the British Invasion, with dance crazes, teen idols, soul, girl groups, country-pop, instrumentals, early Motown energy, and novelty records all reaching No. 1. The Tokens opened the year with The Lion Sleeps Tonight, Chubby Checker

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The Billboard Number One Hits Of 1961

1961 Billboard Number One Hits: Every Hot 100 Chart-TopperThe 1961 Billboard Number One Hits list captured early-1960s pop before the British Invasion, when teen idols, vocal groups, instrumentals, dance records, country crossover, early Motown, R&B, and story songs all reached No. 1. Elvis Presley opened the year with Are You Lonesome Tonight?, Bobby Lewis ruled

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The Billboard Number One Hits Of 1960

1960 Billboard Number One Hits: Every Hot 100 Chart-TopperThe 1960 Billboard Number One Hits list captured early-1960s pop just before Motown, surf music, girl groups, and the British Invasion reshaped the chart. Country story songs, teen tragedy records, instrumentals, Elvis Presley, dance records, novelty songs, R&B crossovers, and romantic ballads all reached No. 1. Marty

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The Billboard Number One Hits Of 1959

1959 Billboard Number One Hits: Every Hot 100 Chart-TopperThe 1959 Billboard Number One Hits list captured early rock and roll, vocal-group pop, teen idols, country crossover, novelty records, instrumentals, and the last big pre-1960s sounds before the next pop wave arrived. The Chipmunks opened the year with The Chipmunk Song, Johnny Horton delivered Billboard’s year-end

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25 Biggest Songs of the Late 1950s

Top 25 Songs of 1955–1959: Early Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley, Doo-Wop, Pop Ballads, Novelty Hits, and the Birth of the Modern Teen Sound The Top 25 songs of 1955–1959 show the moment when American popular music changed direction. The early 1950s still belonged largely to crooners, vocal groups, orchestras, country-pop, and polished adult pop.

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The Billboard Number One Hits Of 1956

1956 Billboard Number One Hits: Pre-Hot 100 Chart-ToppersThe 1956 Billboard Number One Hits list captures the year Elvis Presley became a national pop-culture force. The year began with Tennessee Ernie Ford’s Sixteen Tons, moved through traditional pop, instrumentals, vocal ballads, and novelty-leaning records, then exploded with Elvis’ Heartbreak Hotel, Don’t Be Cruel, Hound Dog, and

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The Billboard Number One Hits Of 1955

1955 Billboard Number One Hits: Pre-Hot 100 Chart-ToppersThe 1955 Billboard Number One Hits list captures one of the biggest turning-point years in American pop history. Traditional vocal pop, orchestral instrumentals, television-driven songs, movie themes, and harmony groups still had major chart power, but Bill Haley & His Comets pushed rock and roll into the mainstream

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The Billboard Number One Hits Of 1954

1954 Billboard Number One Hits: Pre-Hot 100 Chart-ToppersThe 1954 Billboard Number One Hits list captures American pop just before rock and roll fully broke into the mainstream. Traditional pop singers, vocal groups, movie songs, Broadway-connected ballads, novelty-leaning records, and early R&B crossover sounds all shared the top of Billboard’s pre-Hot 100 charts. Tony Bennett opened

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The Billboard Number One Hits Of 1953

1953 Billboard Number One Hits: Pre-Hot 100 Chart-ToppersThe 1953 Billboard Number One Hits list captures American pop before rock and roll took over the conversation. Traditional pop singers, novelty records, movie themes, sentimental ballads, vocal groups, comedy records, and early studio-era stars all shared the top of Billboard’s pre-Hot 100 charts. Jimmy Boyd opened the

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The Billboard Number One Hits Of 1952

1952 Billboard Number One Hits: Pre-Hot 100 Chart-ToppersThe 1952 Billboard Number One Hits list captures American pop before rock and roll, before the Hot 100, and before youth culture became the main engine of the singles chart. Traditional pop singers, orchestral instrumentals, sentimental ballads, British vocal pop, comedy records, and holiday songs all reached the

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The Billboard Number One Hits Of 1951

1951 Billboard Number One Hits: Pre-Hot 100 Chart-ToppersThe 1951 Billboard Number One Hits list captures American pop before rock and roll, before the Hot 100, and before youth culture became the main driver of the singles chart. Traditional pop singers, movie-star voices, country crossover songs, studio innovators, and emotional ballads all reached the top of

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