User:Rambo's Revenge/List of Disc number-one singles
Disc is a former British weekly pop music newspaper. From 1958 until 1967, the Disc compiled its own record chart which was used by many national newspapers.[1] It formed as a rival to the existing charts published by NME, Record Mirror, and Melody Maker. Disc's chart, like NME's and Melody Maker's, was based on a telephone poll of record stores—rival chart, Record Mirror, was based on the postal returns.[1][2] On 1 February 1958 Disc compiled its first chart using figures from 20 shops. The first chart-topper was "..." by ...,[citation needed] with the newspaper having compiled a Top Twenty.[1] Throughout the 1950s Disc's sample sizes remained below 40 shops and in the early 1960s the sample size was increased to approximately 50 and compiled by Fred Zebadee; other rival charts had increased their samples to around 100 but this was too expensive for Disc. In the early 1960s Record Mirror could no longer afford to keep compiling the chart and some national newspapers switched to using Melody Maker's chart (the Record Mirror ceased on 24 March 1962).[1] On 23 April 1966 the chart run by Mersey Beat was incorporated into Disc which became Disc and Music Echo.[2] On 26 August 1967, Disc, who was then owned by the same company as Melody Maker, stopped compiling their own chart and started using the Melody Maker chart.[3]
Record charts in the United Kingdom began life on 14 November 1952 when NME imitated an idea started in American Billboard magazine and began compiling a hit parade. Prior to 15 February 1969, when the British Market Research Bureau chart was established, there had been no universally accepted chart. During this time the BBC used aggregated results of charts from the Melody Maker and other sources to compile the Pick of the Pops chart. However, according to The Official Charts Company and Guinness' British Hit Singles & Albums, the NME is considered the canonical source for the British singles chart before 10 March 1960 and Record Retailer after that.[4]
Number-one singles[edit]
- Key
- † – The song did not reach number one on the Record Retailer chart which is considered by The Official Charts Company as the canonical source until 15 February 1969.
- [nb #] – The song spent a week at number one where it shared the top spot with another song.
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Notes[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an The names, singles, dates and duration of the number-ones are from the Disc chart.[5]
- ^ a b Due to a print strike, Disc was not published from 27 June to 8 August 1959; however, the chart details were released retrospectively.[6][2]
- ^ Coryton & Murrells 1990 mistakenly exclude this from their list and checking the total number of weeks reveal that one is accounted for.[3] The missing number-one single is for 28 May 1966 and was The Troggs with "Wild Thing".[7]
References[edit]
- Footnotes
- ^ a b c d Smith, Alan. "50s & 60s UK Charts – The Truth!". Dave McAleer's website. Retrieved 4 November 2010.
- ^ a b c Smith, Alan. "Every No.1 in the 1960s is listed from all the nine diferent magazine charts!". Dave McAleer's website. Retrieved 4 November 2010. Cite error: The named reference "Sixties" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ a b Coryton & Murrells 1990, p. 9.
- ^ "Key Dates in the History of the Official UK Charts". The Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 10 January 2008. Retrieved 16 May 2010.
- ^ http://whirligigtv.yuku.com/topic/1815/t/1959-Newspaper-strike-Disc-charts-found.html
- ^ "Cliff Ended Bobby's Five Week Run". Disc. Charles Buchan's Publications. August 1959.
- ^ Smith, Alan. "Music Paper Bios and their Charts" (Document). p. 47.
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- Sources
- Coryton, Demitri; Murrells, Joseph (1990). Hits of the '60s: the million sellers. London: B.T. Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-5851-8.