This is a list of singles that have spent time in the top ten of the
''Billboard'' Hot 100 during 1960, presented chronologically from the year's first top-ten list from the issue dated January 4, 1960, to each song's entry date through the final published issue of the year.
Connie Francis
Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero (born December 12, 1937),
known professionally as Connie Francis, is an American pop singer, actress, and top-charting female vocalist of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Called the “First Lady of Rock & Roll” ...
scored five top ten hits during the year with "
Mama", "
Everybody's Somebody's Fool
"Everybody's Somebody's Fool" is a song written by Jack Keller and Howard Greenfield that was a No. 1 hit for Connie Francis in 1960. A polka-style version in German, "Die Liebe ist ein seltsames Spiel", was the first German single recorded and ...
", "
My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own
"My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own" is a song written by Howard Greenfield and Jack Keller which was a No. 1 hit for Connie Francis in 1960.
Connie Francis recording
Francis recorded "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own" at Radio Recorders studio in Ho ...
", "
Many Tears Ago", and "
Among My Souvenirs
"Among My Souvenirs" is a 1927 song with words by Edgar Leslie and music by Horatio Nicholls (pseudonym of British composer Frederick Lawrence Wright).
Original version
The earliest known version of "Among My Souvenirs" was recorded by The Kit ...
", the most among all other artists.
Top-ten singles
1959 peaks
1961 peaks
See also
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1960 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1960.
Specific locations
*1960 in British music
* 1960 in Norwegian music
Specific genres
* 1960 in country music
*1960 in jazz
Events
*January – Stuart Sutcliffe joins ...
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List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 1960 (U.S.)
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Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1960
This is a list of ''Billboard'' magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1960.
See also
*1960 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1960.
Specific locations
* 1960 in British music
* 1960 in Norwegian music ...
References
General sources
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Whitburn, Joel. ''The Billboard Pop Charts, 1955–1959'' ()
*''Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Sixties'' ()
*Additional information obtained can be verified within ''Billboard's'
online business archive servicesand print editions of the magazine.
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1960
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
Events
January
* Jan ...
United States Hot 100 Top 10