April 4, 1964 – Beatles have Top Five Songs in USA

It is a feat that will never again be accomplished in music. On this day in 1964 The Beatles had the Top 5 Songs on the Billboard Top 100 Singles of the week. The closest any other artist ever got was 3 songs in the Top 10. But there they were- Can’t Buy Me Love, Twist and Shout,  She Loves You, I Want To Hold Your Hand, Please Please Me, sitting at the top, along with 7 other Beatles songs in the Top 100 the same week. Beatlemania kept growing in the months following their first Ed Sullivan appearances. Some critics predicted they would be forgotten by the summer. Boy were they wrong! When summer arrived, so did A Hard Day’s Night Film. The critics LOVED it. Roger Ebert called it one of the greatest movies ever! That was some year.

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