Number One Song In 1960

These are the billboard hot 100 number one hits of 1960.

Number one song in 1960. Number one on my birthday. Percy faith and the everly brothers despite having most of their. Brenda lee s i m sorry tops the list at 23 weeks and at the bottom is the beatles penny lane which was on the charts for only 10 weeks. She loves you was the best selling song of the decade and one of fourteen songs believed to have sold over one million copies in the 1960s.

The beatles song she loves you became the best selling single of all time in 1963 a record it held until 1977 when band member paul mccartney s new band wings surpassed it with mull of kintyre. The number one songs of the 1960s which total 204 are listed in the table below in descending order by the total number of weeks they stayed on the billboard pop rock charts. At the start of the year the song at number one was el paso by marty robbins which had been in the top spot since the issue of billboard dated december 21 1959. That year 12 acts achieved their first number ones such as marty robbins johnny preston mark dinning connie francis the hollywood argyles brenda lee brian hyland chubby checker larry verne the drifters ray charles and maurice williams and the zodiacs.