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  1. Bobby Rydell had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100. Brenda Lee had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100. Connie Francis had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100. The Everly Brothers had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1960.

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    January – Stuart Sutcliffe joins the Liverpool band Johnny and the Moondogs and suggests they change their name to the Beatals; after several variations this settles on The Beatlesin August.
    January 14 – Elvis Presley is promoted to Sergeant in the United States Army.
    January 25 – The National Association of Broadcasters in the United States reacts to the payola scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeysaccepting money for playing particular records.
    February 6 – Songwriter Jesse Belvin dies in an automobile accident in Los Angeles; he is co-author of "Earth Angel", The Penguins' classic from 1954.
    A Date with the Everly Brothers – The Everly Brothers
    A Portrait of Duke Ellington – Dizzy Gillespie
    At Last! – Etta James
    At Newport 1960 – Muddy Waters
    "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?" – words: Sammy Cahn, music: Jimmy Van Heusen
    "Alley-Oop" – words and music: Dallas Frazier
    "Apache" – m. Jerry Lordan
    "As Long as He Needs Me" – w.m. Lionel Bart from the musical Oliver!
    "Al Watan Al Akbar" – w.m. Mohammed Abdel Wahab
    "Dance of the Yi People" (instrumental) by Wang Huiran
    "Et maintenant" – w. Pierre Delanoë m. Gilbert Bécaud
    "Nous les amoureux" – w. Maurice Vidalin m. Jacques Datin

    Compositions

    1. William Alwyn– Piano Concerto No. 2 2. Malcolm Arnold – Symphony No. 4 3. Henk Badings – Symphonic Variations 4. Luciano Berio 4.1. Circlesfor female voice, harp and two percussionists 4.2. Momentifor tape 5. Benjamin Britten– Cello Sonata in C major 6. Elliott Carter – String Quartet No. 2 7. Mario Davidovsky – Contrastes No. 1for string orchestra and electronic sounds 8. Lukas Foss 8.1. Concerto, for five improvising instruments 8.2. Time Cycle, for soprano and orchestra 9. Alberto Ginas...

    Benjamin Britten – A Midsummer Night's Dream (premiered on June 11 at the Aldeburgh Festival; the rôle of Oberon is sung by the countertenor Alfred Dellerfor whom it is written)
    Lukas Foss – Introductions and Goodbyes (a nine-minute opera, libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, composed 1959, premiered on May 5, 1960)
    Beg, Borrow or Steal (Bud Freeman) and (Leon Pober) – Broadway production opened at the Martin Beck Theatreon February 10 and ran for 5 performances.
    Bye Bye Birdie (Lee Adams and Charles Strouse) – Broadway production opened at the Martin Beck Theatreon April 14 and ran for 607 performances
    Camelot (Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe) – Broadway production opened at the Majestic Theatreon December 3 and ran for 873 performances
    Christine – Broadway production opened at the 46th Street Theatreon April 28 and ran for 12 performances
    Barsaat Ki Raat Bollywood films starring Madhubala
    Bells Are Ringing (Vincente Minnelli)starring Judy Holliday, Dean Martin and Eddie Foy Jr.
    Can-Can (Walter Lang) starring Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan and Juliet Prowse
    Cinderfella (Frank Tashlin) starring Jerry Lewis
  2. 1960. 1961. 1962. 1963. 1964. 1965. 1966. 1967. 1968. 1969. 1970s →. The Beatles earned the most number-one hits (18 songs) and remained the longest at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart (55 weeks) during 1958–1969. Elvis Presley remained at the top of the Billboard number-one singles chart for 22 weeks during 1958–1969.

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  4. From a classical point of view, the 1960s were also an important decade as they saw the development of electronic, experimental, jazz and contemporary classical music, notably minimalism and free improvisation. [9] In Asia, various trends marked the popular music of the 1960s. In Japan, the decade saw the rise in popularity of several Western ...

  5. These are the number-one albums in the United States per Billboard magazine during the year 1960. From May 5, 1959, until August 1963, separate charts existed for albums in mono and stereo formats. During 1960, those charts were named Mono Action Albums and Stereo Action Albums .

  6. U. List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles from 1958 to 1969. List of Billboard number-one R&B albums of the 1960s. Categories: Record charts by decade. 1960s in music. 1960s-related lists. Hidden category:

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