"I Want to Hold Your Hand"
The Beatles' first number-one song on Billboard Hot 100 chart.
"I Want to Hold Your Hand" became The Beatles' best-selling single worldwide.
Was it the first number one chart topper in the US? yes
"She Loves You" reached number one on it's second release Jan 25, 1964
"Can't Buy Me Love" released on March 16, 1964 shattered all previous sales records with it's first day's sales.
During the week of April 4, 1964 The Beatles occupied the first five slots of the Billboard Hot 100, #1 - "Can't Buy Me Love," #2 - "Twist and Shout," #3 - "She Loves You," #4 - "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and #5 - "Please Please Me," the only group in rock and roll history to achieve this feat. That same week they also had another seven charting records in the Hot 100: "I Saw Her Standing There", 31; "From Me to You", 41; "Do You Want to Know a Secret?", 46; "All My Loving", 58; "You Can't Do That", 65; "Roll Over Beethoven", 68. The Beatles had twelve songs on the charts that week, a feat never matched before or since.
2007-02-20 20:35:32
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