AUG 29
1963 - The Beatles single 'She Loves You' charted. It had record breaking advance orders of 310,000.
AUG 30
1941 - The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra held the Top3 rungs on the US best sellers with 'Green Eyes', 'Yours' and 'Maria Elena'.
AUG 31
1996 - A record breaking four singles entered the UK chart in the Top 5. Only the Spice Girls' debut 'Wannabe' managed to retain a place from the previous week.
SEP 1
2001 – Janet Jackson scored her 28th US Top 10 entry with ‘Someone To Call My Lover’ thus passing the tally of 27 achieved by her brother Michael!
SEP 2
1995 – Capitol Records in the USA pressed two million copies of The Beatles’ Anthology 1 album pre-release – a record for recordings of that age.
SEP 3
1977 – Two weeks after his death, Elvis Presley had a record nine different singles simultaneously on the UK chart.
SEP 4
1948 – Four versions of the song ‘It’s Magic’, from Doris Day’s first movie, ‘Romance On The High Seas’, were simultaneously in the US Top 20. Acts involved were Dick Haymes, Tony Martin, Gordon MacRae and Doris herself, who led the pack.
SEP 5
1998 – ‘I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing’ by Aerosmith became the first single by a rock act to enter the US Hot 100 at No. 1.
SEP 6
1997 – Just 17 days after its release, Oasis’ album ‘Be Here Now’ broke the record for the quickest million selling album in the UK, a record previous held by Robson & Jerome.
SEP 7
1996 – REM signed a deal with Warner Brothers Records for a reported record $80 million.
SEP 8
1945 – Joe Liggins’ recording of ‘The Honeydripper’ (whose title inspired the Led Zeppelin offshoot group of that name) topped the US R&B charts for the first of a record 18 weeks. It is regarded as the first R&B recording to also sell in vast quantities to white record buyers.
SEP 9
1978 - When 70 year old Hylda Baker and her toy boy, 64 year old Arthur Mullard, charted with ‘You’re The One That I Want’ they became the oldest duo to have a hit.
SEP 10
1960 – ‘Down Drury Lane To Memory Lane’ by the 101 Strings became the first instrumental album to top the UK album charts.
SEP 11
1954 – Hank Ballard & The Midnighters (the act that started “The Twist”) had three controversial singles in the US R&B Top 5; ‘Sexy Ways’, ‘Work With Me Annie’ and ‘Annie Had A Baby’.
SEP 12
1998 – ‘The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill’ became the first ever album by a female to sell over 400,000 in its first week of release in the USA.
SEP 13
1997 – Led Zeppelin made their UK single chart debut with ‘Whole Lotta Love’ – a record 28 years and 5 months after they first entered the album chart.
SEP 14
2002 – The Dixie Chicks’ ‘Home’ topped the US album chart – it was their second No. 1 - a tally no girl group in history can better.
SEP 15
1945 – Perry Como had three singles in the US Top 10 Best Sellers: ‘Till The End Of Time’, ‘If I Loved You’ and ‘I’m Gonna Love That Gal’.
SEP 16
1957 – For the first time 2 hours of music could be heard on one album – thanks to the new 16 2/3rd speed records.
SEP 17
1994 – With an average age of 52, The Three Tenors became the oldest group to top the UK charts, replacing the Rolling Stones who held the record for only two months.
SEP 18
1999 – The Dixie Chicks ‘Fly’ became the first album by a female group and the first by a country group to enter the US pop chart at No. 1.
SEP 19
1998 – Leann Rimes ‘How Do I Live’ spent a record breaking 66th week on the US Hot 100 singles chart.
SEP 20
1997 – Elton John’s ‘Candle In The Wind 1997’ entered the UK chart. It went on to become the biggest selling single in the UK and the world.
SEP 21
1956 – Bill Haley & The Comets had a record breaking five singles in the UK Top 30. The biggest being ‘Rockin’ Thru The Rye’ at No.3 (which was only a b-side in their homeland).
SEP 22
1997 – Savage Garden, who had a record 13 nominations, picked up a record breaking 10 ARIA awards (The Aussie version of the Brits).
SEP 23
1961 – When The Shadows eponymous album topped the chart they became the first act to complete the “treble”, i.e. heading the UK singles, EP and LP charts.
SEP 24
1989 – ‘Drama’ by Erasure broke the then record for biggest UK singles chart jump by leaping form 182nd to 6th.
SEP 25
1943 – A record five of the US Top 10 singles were a cappella (that is voice only – no instruments) – the reason being a musician’s strike.
SEP 26
1956 – RCA Records announced that Elvis Presley had sold a record breaking 10 million records in the USA in his first nine months with the label.
SEP 27
1962 – Billy Fury’s backing band, The Tornados, debuted in the Top 10 with ‘Telstar’ – the first record ever by a UK act to top both the UK and US charts.
SEP 28
2002 – Pink equaled a record for US female singers set by Britney Spears, when her seventh hit, ‘Just Like A Pill’ followed the previous half dozen into the Top 10.
SEP 29
1951 - Tony Bennett held the Top 2 places on the US singles chart with ‘Because Of You’ and ‘Cold Cold Heart’ – these two singles hogged those positions until December 1.
SEP 30
1960 – ‘(Meet) The Flintstones’ was first heard in the USA when the cartoon show debuted. It took a record 33 years and 8 months before a version of it charted (by the B-52s).