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Below is the Billboard top 100 for 1964. To sort by a particular column, click on the header and change the order by clicking on the triangle.
# Title Artist

Top Rank

 Date Highest Rank Top 20 Weeks

 
1 I Want to Hold Your Hand The Beatles 1 1964/02/01 13 *
2 She Loves You The Beatles 1 1964/03/21 12 *
3 Hello Dolly Louis Armstrong 1 1964/05/09 16
4 Oh Pretty Woman Roy Orbison 1 1964/09/26 11
5 I Get Around The Beach Boys 1 1964/07/04 12
6 Everybody Loves Somebody Dean Martin 1 1964/08/15 11
7 My Guy Mary Wells 1 1964/05/16 11
8 We'll Sing in the Sunshine Gayle Garnett 4 1964/10/17 9
9 Last Kiss J. Frank Wilson & the Cavaliers 2 1964/11/07 10
10 Where Did Our Love Go The Supremes 1 1964/08/22 11
11 People Barbara Streisand 5 1964/06/27 9
12 Java Al Hirt 4 1964/02/29 9
13 A Hard Day's Night The Beatles 1 1964/08/01 10 *
14 Love Me Do The Beatles 10 1964/05/30 9 *
15 Do Wah Diddy Diddy Manfred Mann 1 1964/10/17 10 *
16 Please Please Me The Beatles 3 1964/03/14 8 *
17 Dancing in the Street Martha & the Vandellas 2 1964/10/17 8
18 Little Children Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas 7 1964/06/13 9 *
19 Love Me With All Your Heart The Ray Charles Singers 3 1964/06/13 8
20 Under the Boardwalk The Drifters 4 1964/08/22 9
21 Chapel of Love The Dixie Cups 1 1964/06/06 9
22 Suspicion Terry Stafford 3 1964/04/11 9
23 Glad All Over The Dave Clark Five 6 1964/04/25 9 *
24 Rag Doll The Four Seasons 1 1964/07/18 10
25 Dawn The Four Seasons 3 1964/02/22 8
26 Bread & Butter The Newbeats 2 1964/09/19 8
27 It Hurts to Be in Love Gene Pitney 7 1964/10/03 6
28 Dead Man's Curve Jan & Dean 8 1964/05/09 7
29 Come a Little Bit Closer Jay & the Americans 3 1964/11/21 7
30 A World Without Love Peter & Gordon 1 1964/06/27 8 *
31 Have I The Right? The Honeycombs 5 1964/11/14 7 *
32 Don't Let The Rain Come Down(Crooked Little Man) The Serendipity Singers 6 1964/05/02 9
33 Baby Love The Supremes 1 1964/10/31 10
34 Let It Be Me Betty Everett & Jerry Butler 5 1964/11/07 7
35 Wishin' And Hopin' Dusty Springfield 6 1964/08/01 7 *
36 You Don't Own Me Lesley Gore 2 1964/02/01 8
37 Walk On By Dionne Warwick 6 1964/06/13 8
38 The House of the Rising Sun The Animals 1 1964/09/05 9 *
39 G.T.O. Ronny & the Daytonas 16 1964/09/26 8
40 Twist and Shout The Beatles 2 1964/04/04 9 *
41 Memphis Johnny Rivers 2 1964/07/11 8
42 White On White Danny Williams 9 1964/05/16 5
43 Hey Little Cobra The Rip Chords 4 1964/02/08 8
44 The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss) Betty Everett 6 1964/04/11 7
45 Bits and Pieces The Dave Clark Five 4 1964/05/02 7 *
46 My Boy Lollipop Little Millie Small 2 1964/07/04 7
47 Um Um Um Um Um Um Major Lance 5 1964/02/08 8
48 The Little Old Lady (from Pasadena) Jan & Dean 3 1964/08/01 7
49 Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying Gerry & the Pacemakers 4 1964/07/04 7 *
50 A Summer Song Chad & Jeremy 7 1964/10/17 6 *
51 The Girl From Ipanema Stan Getz & Astro Gilberto 5 1964/07/18 8
52 Can't Buy Me Love The Beatles 1 1964/04/04 7 *
53 Remember (Walkin' In the Sand) The Shangri-Las 5 1964/09/26 8
54 C'mon and Swim Bobby Freeman 5 1964/08/29 6
55 Do You Want to Know a Secret The Beatles 2 1964/05/09 8 *
56 Keep On Pushing The Impressions 10 1964/07/18 5
57 Baby I Need Your Loving The Four Tops 11 1964/10/03 5
58 Navy Blue Diane Renay 6 1964/03/14 6
59 Diane The Bachelors 10 1964/06/20 5
60 Out of Limits The Marketts 3 1964/02/01 7
61 Little Honda The Hondells 9 1964/10/31 5
62 Chug A Lug Roger Miller 9 1964/11/07 5
63 See The Funny Little Clown Bobby Goldsboro 9 1964/03/14 5
64 Because The Dave Clark Five 3 1964/09/12 7 *
65 (Just Like) Romeo & Juliet The Reflections 6 1964/05/30 5
66 For You Ricky Nelson 6 1964/02/15 6
67 Today The New Christy Minstrels 17 1964/06/20 3
68 Can't You See That She's Mine The Dave Clark Five 4 1964/07/18 7 *
69 Leader of the Pack The Shangri-las 1 1964/11/28 9
70 Funny Joe Hinton 13 1964/10/10 4
71 The Way You Do the Things You Do The Temptations 11 1964/04/11 6
72 Anyone Who Had A Heart Dionne Warwick 8 1964/02/15 6
73 I Love You More And More Every Day Al Martino 9 1964/03/21 5
74 It's Over Roy Orbison 9 1964/05/23 6
75 Ronnie The Four Seasons 6 1964/05/16 6
76 Surfin' Bird The Trashmen 4 1964/01/25 7
77 What Kind of Fool The Tams 9 1964/02/22 5
78 The Door Is Still Open To My Heart Dean Martin 6 1964/11/14 5
79 You Really Got Me The Kinks 7 1964/12/05 9 *
80 The Shelter Of Your Arms Sammy Davis, Jr 17 1964/03/07 2
81 I'm So Proud The Impressions 14 1964/05/23 4
82 I Wanna Love Him So Bad The Jelly Beans 9 1964/08/08 5
83 Dang Me Roger Miller 7 1964/08/01 6
84 Cotton Candy Al Hirt 15 1964/05/30 2
85 How Glad I Am Nancy Wilson 11 1964/08/15 4
86 Money The Kingsmen 16 1964/05/02 4
87 Don't Throw Your Love Away The Searchers 16 1964/07/11 3
88 Hi Heel Sneakers Tommy Tucker 11 1964/03/21 4
89 How Do You Do It? Gerry & The Pacemakers 9 1964/09/05 5 *
90 Walk Don't Run '64 The Ventures 8 1964/08/22 5
91 Do You Love Me The Dave Clark Five 11 1964/06/06 4 *
92 Shangri-la Robert Maxwell 15 1964/05/02 4
93 Haunted House Gene Simmons 11 1964/09/26 6
94 Steal Away Jimmy Hughes 17 1964/08/15 3
95 I Saw Her Standing There The Beatles 14 1964/03/21 3 *
96 A Fool Never Learns Andy Williams 13 1964/02/15 5
97 Bad to Me Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas 7 1964/06/27 5 *
98 There I've Said It Again Bobby Vinton 1 1964/01/04 10
99 Louie Louie The Kingsmen 2 1963/12/14 10
100 Needles and Pins The Searchers 13 1964/04/11 5 *
Brian Epstein, The Beatles' manager, managed two other bands from Liverpool that each had two entries in the 1964 Billboard year chart. Gerry Marsden (Gerry & The Pacemakers) and Billy J. Kramer (& The Dakotas) both were their group's lead singer and while their sound was considered part of the Merseybeat, their records were somewhat tamer than The Beatles.
According to Billboard, "Hello Dolly" was the third most popular record of 1964. Jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong has the distinction of being the one to knock The Beatles out of the #1 position when "Hello Dolly" ascended to the top of the Billboard chart after The Beatles had occupied it for fourteen consecutive weeks. The 63-year-old Armstrong hadn't had a top ten record for eight years. "Hello Dolly." It's only one of two songs from a Broadway musical to reach #1 during the rock era of music.

The Dave Clark Five had the second most records listed in the year end top 100 for 1964. None of their records reached #1, "Because" came closest at #3. Many assume that Dave Clark was the lead singer, but he was actually the drummer. Mike Smith was the lead vocalist. The group was elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008.
Dionne Warwick was an American artist who survived the British Invasion. Her first chart record came in 1962 with "Don't Make Me Over" (#21) and in 1964 she had a top ten hits with "Anyone Who Had a Heart" (#8) and "Walk On By" (#6), all written by Burt Bacharach. She would continue to successfully record into the 1980's.
With two top ten records in 1964, The Shangri-Las were one of the continuing line of girl groups. But their records were different, being described as teenage melodramas. Their first release, "Remember (Walkin' In the Sand)" reached #5, and their second has become a rock and roll classic and made it to #1 -- "Leader of the Pack."
Dean Martin was another unlikely American artist to stand up to the British Invasion, but he placed two records in Billboards top 100. Martin's teenage son, Ricci, was obsessed with The Beatles. Dean boasted to his son that "I'm gonna knock your pallies off the charts." He did just that on August 15th when he replaced "A Hard Day's Night" as #1. "Everybody Loves Somebody" was Martin's second #1, the first coming in 1956 with "Memories are Made of This."
Barry Gordy's Motown was one of the strongest American sounds to resist the British Invasion. Mary Wells had been making hit records since 1962 and would have her biggest hit in 1964 with "My Guy," a song written and produced by Smokey Robinson.