Songs · UK Singles Chart

I Want To Hold Your Hand

The Beatles

Entered Dec 5, 1963 · peaked at #1 on Dec 12, 1963 · 22 weeks on the chart, last seen May 14, 1964

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UK Singles Chart · #1, 22 wkBillboard Hot 100 · #1, 15 wk
Record Power
48.6
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
5
weeks on top
Top-ten weeks
10
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
22
December 1963 – May 1964

Ranked by Record Power, part of the ChartReign Power model — not a chart published by anyone else. How it works →

The run

Position by week; a gap is a spell off the chart.

What it earned each artist

Record Power is the song's own figure. Power contributed is what the song earned each artist's Career Power: a featured credit takes its reduced share, and a week where the artist had other songs charting is split between them.

ArtistCreditCredit sharePower contributed
The Beatlesprimary100%46.8

The top ten the week it peaked

See Dec 12, 1963 on the timeline →
  1. #1I Want To Hold Your HandThe Beatles
  2. #2She Loves YouThe Beatles
  3. #3You Were Made For MeFreddie And The Dreamers
  4. #4Secret LoveKathy Kirby
  5. #5Maria ElenaLos Indios Tabajaras
  6. #6Don't Talk to HimCliff Richard
  7. #7I Only Want To Be With YouDusty Springfield
  8. #8You'll Never Walk AloneGerry And The Pacemakers
  9. #9Glad All OverThe Dave Clark Five
  10. #10DominiqueThe Singing Nun

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