Top 10 British Albums That Changed Music Forever

Top 10 Billboard Chart Topping Rock Songs of the 1960s

Top 10 British Rock Bands

WE LOVE THE BEATLES!

Billboard Magazine

January 18th 2014

Top 10 Concept Albums

1960's Cashbox Year-End Countdown (The Top 3 of Each Year)

Cashbox Year End Top 3 Songs 

1960-1969

(courtesy whiteboy7931)

The 20 Biggest Selling Groups in UK Chart History

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Official Singles Chart in the UK.
Here are the 20 biggest selling groups in chart history with combined sales total and their biggest selling single.

20 - Wham!
(5.9 million combined sales)
Last Christmas/Everything She Wants

19 - Police 
(6.1 million)
Don't Stand So Close To Me

18 - Madness
(6.15 million)
Baggy Trousers

17 - UB40
(6.6 million)
Red Red Wine

16 - Westlife
(6.830 million)
Uptown Girl

15 - Slade 
(6.856 million)
Merry Xmas Everybody

14 - Boney M
(6.859 million)
Rivers of Babylon/Brown Girl in the Ring

13 - Black Eyed Peas
(7.034 million)
I Gotta a Feeling

12 - Blondie 
(7.037 million)
Heart of Glass

11 - Boyzone 
(7.1 million)
No Matter What

10 - Status Quo
(7.2 million)
Rockin' All Over The World

9  -  U2
(7.5 million)
With or Without You

8  -  Bee Gees
(7.6 Million)
How Deep is Your Love

7  -  Spice Girls
(8 million)
Wannabe

6  -  Take That
(9.078 million)
Back for Good

5  -  Oasis
(9.079 million)
Wonderwall


4  -  Rolling Stones
(10.1 million)
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction


3  -  ABBA
(11.3 million)
Dancing Queen


2  -  Queen
(12.8 million)
Bohemian Rhapsody


1  -  Beatles
(22.1 million)
She Loves You

Flashback - 1966 Billboard Top 10 Singles 4/9/1966

1964 Billboard Top 10 Singles - 4/4/1964 - The Beatles Make Music History

1965 Billboard Top 10 Singles - 1/9/1965

The Year in Billboard #1 Hits - 1974

November 16th 1974


Whatever Gets You Through the Night - John Lennon
(1 week at #1)

The Year in #1 UK Hits - 1980

December 20th 1980


Just Like Starting Over - John Lennon
(1 week at #1)

#1 Song of the Week

This week its the legendary Beatles and "Get Back". Spending 5 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in May and June of 1969 and also reaching #1 in the UK.

This is the only Beatles single to list another artist on the record label, it was Billy Preston on the organ/keyboard.

Original vs Remake

Tonight's face off is between a superstar singer and the most successful band in music history.


Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - The Beatles
From the 1967 "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album


Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds - Elton John
A #1 smash for Elton that topped the Billboard Hot 100 the first 2 weeks of 1975.

I've Got a Secret

From 1964, and episode of the game show "I've Got a Secret" had as a contestant with a secret by the name of Pete Best.



Here is Pete Best on the David Letterman Show in 1982

The Beatles

Here is a video medley of the Beatles #1 songs. This was put together to promote the release of the "One" album in 2000.
This had all the Beatles songs that reached the top spot in the US and UK.
Despite being issued on the 30th anniversary of the band's breakup, it was their first compilation available on one Compact Disc. 1 was a critical success, and became a blockbuster phenomenon, the biggest selling album of the 2000s