To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' American
invasion, we're counting down the Fab Four's biggest Hot 100 smashes, 10 songs
at a time.
It was 50 years ago this week that the
Beatles landed at New York's JFK airport and brought their iconic sound to
living rooms across the America. On Feb. 9, 1964, John, Paul, George and Ringo
made their stateside television debut on "The Ed Sullivan Show," an
event that drew 73 million viewers (an astonishing 40% of the entire U.S.
population), becoming the largest TV audience in history to that point. Since
that momentous evening, the Beatles have continued to exert a massive influence
on music and pop culture, their tunes remaining a consistent, indelible part of
every generation's soundtrack.
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How The Beatles Went Viral in 1964
The Beatles' American Chart Invasion: 12 Record Chart Feats
To celebrate the
anniversary of the Beatles' American invasion, we've delved into Billboard's
chart history to determine the Fab Four's all-time Hot 100 hits; and we've
counted them all down all week culminating with the big reveal of the 10
biggest hits today (Friday, February 7, 2014) -- the 50th anniversary of the
Beatles arrival in New York and the beginning Beatlemania in America.
50 Years Ago: The Beatles First Hot 100 Chart Appearance
The Beatles' 50 Biggest Billboard Hits is
based on actual performance on the weekly Billboard Hot 100 chart. Songs are
ranked based on an inverse point system, with weeks at No. 1 earning the
greatest value and weeks at No. 100 earning the least. To ensure equitable
representation of the biggest hits from each era, certain time frames were
weighted to account for the difference between turnover rates from those years.
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