They never hit the top 100, at least through 1999.
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A song is a single if it is played on iHeart radio or any other radio station.
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The Beatles very first hit anywhere was "Love Me Do" b/w "P.S. I Love You" in the UK in October 1962. It reached #17 - but only for one week, then vanished from the charts.In America their first hit was "I Want to Hold Your Hand". It reached #1.Depends on the definition of a hit. Their first single, Love Me Do, reached #17,Please Please Me (second single) is known never to have reached #1, but it was #1 fow fow 2 weeks in Musical Express.From Me to You (third single) is the first single to reach #1 in several charts.
The Radio 1 Charts listings can be found online at the BBC's website. The Radio 1 Charts is a list of the top 40 songs on the radio that week in the United Kingdom.
The UK charts are based only on sales and not radio play unlike most other countries. The record lable builds a hype in the UK by radio play and live performances. The first week of release normally pushes the single into peak position in the UK charts.
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Patsy Cline's first hit was "Walkin' After Midnight" in 1956. She performed it live on the televised program Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts and won that night's competition. Immediately thereafter, radio stations were flooded with calls to play the song, so she released it as a single. It reached #2 on the country charts and #16 on the pop charts.
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The Top 40 Single Chart is released on Sunday afternoons by BBC Radio 1 before the full Official Singles Chart Top 1 is posted. The Single Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company.
It depends on how you define hit single. Paramore's first single was "Pressure" in 2005, but their first song to get any significant play on radio or TV was "Misery Business" in 2007
A song is a single when it is on the radio and played regularly.
One can listen to the Radio 1 Charts on youtube. Many users have posted videos of these popular songs, so they should be easy to find. They are also free to view, and are legal.
Todays Charts are Researched and published by the Official UK Charts Company, and broadcast on BBC Radio 1 every sunday.Before this most major music Industry publications ran their own version of the charts, done by telephoning around the top 20 music retailers to colllate sales reports and produce the chart listings,The first British Chart (a grand total of 15) was published in the National Music Express (NME) in November 1952, with Here in My Heart by Al Martino at number one.
Songs can enter the charts based on airplay (or the radio/TV etc) even if they haven't yet been released