The Biggest No. 1 Rock Songs of the ’60s

As this checklist of the greatest No. 1 rock songs of the decade reveals, the ’60s weren’t at all times as revolutionary as you may assume.

Sure, there was the revolution of the British Invasion, when the Beatles, the Who, the Kinks and the Rolling Stones modified every thing in rock. They’d been impressed by American music from the ’50s, however took it to locations nobody may have imagined. At the similar time, American teams had been setting their very own requirements, from the Beach Boys and Simon and Garfunkel to the Byrds.

The latter half of the decade noticed a second revolution, with this one outlined by free love and psychedelia. The Beatles had been at the vanguard of this one too, together with Jefferson Airplane, the Doors, Jimi Hendrix and others. Along the approach, there have been era-defining moments together with a presidential assassination, the peak of the Civil Rights motion, the Moon touchdown, and Woodstock.

Yet, regardless of all of that, the greatest No. 1 rock songs of the ’60s typically stay doggedly mainstream. For all of its repute as a time of change, the period’s charts had been nonetheless dominated by songs that had been pleased, enjoyable, even (gasp!) secure. (Seriously, guys … Bobby Goldsboro? In 1968??)

See for your self, as Stacker seems to be again at the greatest singles of the decade. To qualify, the monitor needed to prime the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 or extra weeks. The checklist was then filtered by style utilizing the University of Waterloo’s MusicBrainz encyclopedia:

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