I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND
by BEATLES


English multi-instrumentalist quartet The Beatles hailed from Liverpool and consisted of members Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison. The Beatles scored their third UK Official Singles Chart Number 1 with the self-penned I Want To Hold Your Hand, creating a chart record in the process as the first time an act had replaced themselves at the Number 1 spot, displacing She Loves You in early December 1963.

Released November 29, 1963, I Want To Hold Your Hand entered the chart at 10 and shot to the top a week later for a five-week stint across Christmas 1963, giving the band their first UK Official Singles Chart Christmas Number 1. I Want To Hold Your Hand would go on to become their first chart-topper in America, was their biggest-selling single worldwide, and the UK’s second biggest-selling single of the 1960s clocking up 1.82 million sales. 

I Want To Hold Your Hand - The Beatles

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Chart facts

  • Peak position1
  • LabelPARLOPHONE
  • Catalogue numberR5084
  • First Chart Date

Weeks on chart

  1. 5No1
  2. 10Top 10
  3. 13Top 20
  4. 18Top 40
  5. 22Top 75
  6. 22Top 100

Chart run

= Peak position = This week

21 weeks - 11/12/1963 to 29/04/1964

1 week - 20/05/1964

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