List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1964

The Beatles had six number-one singles in 1964. "I Want to Hold Your Hand", one of those number ones, became the number-one single of the year.

These are the Billboard magazine Hot 100 number one hits of 1964.

That year, 11 acts achieved their first number one song, such as The Beatles, Louis Armstrong, Mary Wells, The Dixie Cups, Peter and Gordon, The Beach Boys, The Supremes, The Animals, Manfred Mann, The Shangri-Las, and Lorne Greene. Dean Martin, despite already having a song hit number one prior to the creation of the Hot 100, earns his first number one song on the chart. Bobby Vinton, The Beatles, and The Supremes were the only acts to have more than one song hit number one that year, which The Beatles had the most with six.

Chart history

Key

The yellow background indicates the #1 song on Billboard's 1964 Year-End Chart of Pop Singles.

Template:Abbr	Issue date	Song	Artist(s)	Reference
103	January 4	"There! I've Said It Again"	Bobby Vinton	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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104	February 1	"I Want to Hold Your Hand"	The Beatles	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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105	March 21	"She Loves You"		<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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106	April 4	"Can't Buy Me Love"		<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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107	May 9	"Hello, Dolly!"	Louis Armstrong	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
108	May 16	"My Guy"	Mary Wells	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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109	May 30	"Love Me Do"	The Beatles	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
110	June 6	"Chapel of Love"	The Dixie Cups	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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111	June 27	"A World Without Love"	Peter and Gordon	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
112	July 4	"I Get Around"	The Beach Boys	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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113	July 18	"Rag Doll"	The Four Seasons	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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114	August 1	"A Hard Day's Night"	The Beatles	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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115	August 15	"Everybody Loves Somebody"	Dean Martin	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
116	August 22	"Where Did Our Love Go"	The Supremes	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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117	September 5	"The House of the Rising Sun"	The Animals	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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118	September 26	"Oh, Pretty Woman"	Roy Orbison	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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119	October 17	"Do Wah Diddy Diddy"	Manfred Mann	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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120	October 31	"Baby Love"	The Supremes	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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121	November 28	"Leader of the Pack"	The Shangri-Las	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
122	December 5	"Ringo"	Lorne Greene	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
123	December 12	"Mr. Lonely"	Bobby Vinton	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
124	December 19	"Come See About Me"	The Supremes	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
125	December 26	"I Feel Fine"	The Beatles	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Number-one artists

List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one

Position	Artist	Weeks at No. 1
1	The Beatles	18
2	The Supremes	7
3	Bobby Vinton	5
4	The Dixie Cups	3
	The Animals
	Roy Orbison
7	Mary Wells	2
	The Beach Boys
	The Four Seasons
	Manfred Mann
9	Louis Armstrong	1
	Peter and Gordon
	Dean Martin
	The Shangri-Las
	Lorne Greene

See also

• 1964 in music
• List of Billboard number-one singles
• List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1964
• List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles from 1958 to 1969

Sources

• Fred Bronson's Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, 5th Edition (Template:ISBN)
• Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2008, 12 Edition (Template:ISBN)
• Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Sixties (Template:ISBN)
• Additional information obtained can be verified within Billboard's online archive services and print editions of the magazine.