When Elvis was big, they didn't have Billboard ratings, so he didn't have any #1's, but The Beatles had 27. Those 27 hits are all available on one single album, entitled simply "1," and released in 2000, if you want to look up what the were.
The Beatles have 20#1's in the US, Elvis 21 in the UK but three are counted twice and one is a remix by another artist so in reality the Beatles and Elvis are still tied at 17 in the UK. Overall the Beatles have the most #1's. Actually if you are looking for who has the most #1's ever, any genre, it would be George Strait, who to date has had 57 #1 songs.
Elvis was about ten years ahead of the beatles. Interesting side note. In those days getting to appear on the Ed Sullivan show was a guarantee to launch a career. There was a country singer trying to get national attention that appeared on the Sullivan show the same night Elvis Presley did. Of course Elvis so overshadowed the guy that everyone forgot about him. He kept trying and finally landed a gig on the Sullivan show again. But, as luck would have it, that was the night the Beatles first performed in America. So, once again the guy was out performed and forgotten. I used to know his name but can't remember it anymore.
my guess would be paul mcCartney of the beatles.
The Beatles had the most (20), and Elvis Presley is second (18).
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Most of their songs were never a number one hit. Only 17 were, leaving over 200 to not be.
No Elvis song replaced a Beatles number one.
"Please Please Me" and "Love Me Do".
The Beatles hit international fame in 1962, and officially disbanded in April , 1970.
No, but Beatles John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote "I Wanna Be Your Man" to answer Mick Jagger and Keith Richard's questions about how they came up with songs. They gave the Stones first crack at recording it as a single, and it became their first hit. (The Beatles' own version became an album track, sung by Ringo Starr.)
Band on the run
Yesterday and Hey Jude, both Paul songs.