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Music History Events: Charts

June 3, 1957 Pat Boone's "Love Letters In The Sand" hits #1 on the US Top 100 and stays for seven weeks. Boone would have two of the Top 5 songs of 1957 ("April Love" is the other), while Elvis has the other three.

June 2, 1957 Johnnie Ray's "Yes Tonight Josephine" hits #1 on the UK singles chart.

April 13, 1957 Elvis Presley lands his seventh #1 hit in America with "All Shook Up." It spends nine weeks at the top of the chart, more than any other song in 1957.

April 6, 1957 Perry Como's "Round And Round" hits #1.

February 16, 1957 Tab Hunter's "Young Love" begins a six-week run at #1 in America.

February 9, 1957 Elvis Presley's "Too Much" hits #1 for the first of three weeks.

January 19, 1957 Fats Domino's "Blueberry Hill" hits #2 on the Hot 100, the highest he ever gets on the tally.

December 8, 1956 Guy Mitchell's "Singing The Blues" hits #1.

November 10, 1956 Billboard magazine's DJ survey reveals that Elvis Presley is the country's number one male artist on both the pop and country charts.

November 7, 1956 Elvis Presley becomes the first artist to chart an Extended Play or EP 45 rpm record when the four-song Love Me EP enters the Billboard charts.

November 3, 1956 "Love Me Tender" replaces "Don't Be Cruel"/"Hound Dog" on the Billboard chart, making Elvis Presley the first artist to knock himself out of the #1 position.

August 4, 1956 The Platters' "My Prayer" hits #1 in America for the first of five weeks.

June 16, 1956 Gogi Grant's "The Wayward Wind" hits #1 in America, where it stays for eight weeks.

April 21, 1956 Elvis Presley's breakout hit "Heartbreak Hotel" goes to #1 in America.

February 18, 1956 Kay Starr's "Rock and Roll Waltz" hits #1 for the first of six weeks.

February 8, 1956 The Teen Queens' "Eddie, My Love" enters the R&B charts.

February 8, 1956 Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers' "Why Do Fools Fall In Love?" enters the R&B charts.

February 4, 1956 Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti" reaches its US chart peak of #17, giving him his first hit. Pat Boone's version of the song outcharts him, making #12 two weeks later.

January 6, 1956 Lonnie Donegan's cover of "Rock Island Line" enters the UK charts, eventually selling over three million copies and kicking off the national skiffle craze.

December 31, 1955 The first version of "Unchained Melody," recorded by Les Baxter, his Chorus and Orchestra, is named the top-selling single of 1955 by Billboard. Baxter's version was featured in the movie Unchained; The Righteous Brothers have a huge hit with the song in 1965.

November 26, 1955 Bill Haley's "Rock Around The Clock" becomes the first rock and roll record to hit #1 in the UK, thanks to its inclusion in the movie Blackboard Jungle.

November 26, 1955 Tennessee Ernie Ford's "Sixteen Tons" hits #1 in America for the first of eight weeks.

November 12, 1955 Billboard begins its "Top 100" chart, with the first #1 listed as "Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing" by the Four Aces. The magazine wouldn't combine all its pop charts into one until 1959.

October 29, 1955 "Autumn Leaves" by Roger Williams hits #1 in America.

October 8, 1955 The Four Aces' "Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing" hits #1.

September 10, 1955 Chuck Berry's first hit, "Maybellene," reaches its peak chart position of #5 in the US.

July 16, 1955 Elvis Presley makes his first appearance on the national charts as "Baby, Let's Play House" enters the Cash Box country charts at #15.

May 28, 1955 "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" has four different versions on the charts, including a #1 hit for Bill Hayes. The other three are by Fess Parker, Walter Schumann and Tennessee Ernie Ford.

April 30, 1955 Perez Prado's "Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White" hits #1 in America, where it stays for 10 weeks.

March 26, 1955 #1 Billboard hit: Bill Hayes' "The Ballad of Davy Crockett"