"Need You" is a 1967 single by

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. The single went to number one on the ''

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chart where it spent two weeks at the top. "Need You" spent a total of seventeen weeks on the chart. "Need You" is known as the song that began a string of 16 consecutive single releases that reached No. 1 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles chart without a miss. The string would continue into 1971, capped by the song "

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," the string finally being broken in 1972 with "

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." The string of 16 consecutive (non-holiday) single releases would be surpassed in 1985 by the country supergroup

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; the band would go on to have 21 No. 1 songs in a row, and to date is the only act to match James' record.

Chart performance

References

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