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This is a list of Billboard magazine's ranking of the top country singles of 1966. [1] "Swinging Doors" by Merle Haggard ranked as the year's No. 1 single, despite its having peaked at No. 5 on the weekly charts. "Almost Persuaded" by David Houston, which spent a record nine weeks in the No. 1 spot, ranked as the year's No.2 single.
Buck Owens had four number ones in 1966. Hot Country Songs is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. In 1966, 13 different singles topped the chart, which was published at the time under the title Hot Country Singles, in 53 issues of the magazine.
The Mamas & the Papas had two songs on the Year-End Hot 100, including "California Dreamin'", the number one song of 1966. The Beatles had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1966. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1966. [1] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated ...
The single "The Snakes Crawl at Night", by a then-unknown singer named "Country" Charley Pride, is released in the spring but does not chart.After the follow-up single "Before I Met You" also does not chart, a third single, "Just Between You and Me" is released in December and early in 1967 becomes the singer's first major hit, and the first top 10 country hit by an African-American singer in ...
The Lovin' Spoonful scored a #1 hit with "Summer in the City" in 1966. The Four Tops scored a #1 hit with "Reach Out I'll Be There" in 1966. These are the Billboard magazine Hot 100 number one hits of 1966. That year, 16 acts achieved their first number one song, such as Simon & Garfunkel, Lou Christie, Nancy Sinatra, SSgt.
Jon Voight vividly remembers the first time he heard the song “Wild Thing.” “I was so excited!” he recalls. “I thought, ‘Oh, my God!’ And I fell on the floor!” The year was 1965 ...
Four female acts top the chart for the first time, highlighting a resurgence in success for female artists in the country field. [65] 1999: Lonestar spends eight consecutive weeks at number one with "Amazed", the longest unbroken run in the top spot since 1966. [66] 2000: At age 61, Kenny Rogers becomes the oldest artist to achieve a number one ...
List of Billboard Easy Listening number ones of 1966; List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1966; List of Cash Box Top 100 number-one singles of 1966; List of Dutch Top 40 number-one singles of 1966; List of number-one singles of 1966 (France) List of Hot Country Singles number ones of 1966; List of number-one hits of 1966 (Brazil)