Disc (known from 1964 to 1966 as Disc Weekly, and from 1966 until its demise as Disc and Music Echo) is a former British weekly pop music newspaper, published between 1958 and 1975. From its launch until 1967, Disc compiled its own record chart, the third (following New Musical Express, the Record Mirror, and Melody Maker with which it competed). Disc initially compiled its chart from 25 random phone calls to dealers across the United Kingdom, in a manner similar to two of its rivals. The first chart, published in its premiere issue of 8 February 1958, saw "Jailhouse Rock" by Elvis Presley tied with "The Story of My Life" by Michael Holliday for the number-one spot.
At the outset, Discs chart was a Top Twenty, compiled by phone from 25 random dealers' returns all over the UK. The chart expanded to a Top 30 on 6 October 1962; between 23 April 1966 and 25 March 1967, the chart was Top 50 before reverting to a Top 30 chart on 1 April. By 1962, Discs phone sample pool was 50, expanded to 80-100 by 1964 before dropping to a 30-50 pool toward the end of its run as an independently-compiled chart. On 19 August 1967, the paper stopped compiling its own chart (its last number-one single being "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" by Scott McKenzie) and started publishing Melody Makers Top 30 chart.[1]
Record charts in the United Kingdom began life on 14 November 1952 when NME imitated an idea started in American Billboard magazine and began compiling a hit parade. Prior to 15 February 1969, when the British Market Research Bureau chart was established, there had been no universally accepted chart. During this time the BBC used aggregated results of charts from the Mirror and other sources to compile the Pick of the Pops chart. However, according to the Official Charts Company and Guinness' British Hit Singles & Albums, the NME is considered the official British singles chart before 10 March 1960. After that date and until 1969 a chart compiled by Record Retailer is considered the official British singles chart.[2]
The first number-one record on the Disc chart not to have reached the top of the NME chart was "Bird Dog" by The Everly Brothers. From then until the end of Discs independently-compiled chart, they would have an additional eighteen number-ones that are not recognised as number-one by the Official Charts Company, the last of which was Harry Secombe's version of "This Is My Song" in 1967.
| scope=row style="background-color:pink" | The song did not reach number on the NME (1952 - 1960) or Record Retailer (1960 - 1969) charts which are considered by the Official Charts Company as the canonical sources. | ||
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| scope=row style="background-color:lightgreen" | † | The song spent a week at number one where it shared the top spot with another song. |
| scope=col | scope=col | Artist | scope=col | Single | scope=col | Reached number one | scope=col | Weeks at number one | |
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| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | "Jailhouse Rock" | 1 †[3] | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | "" | 3 † | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | "Magic Moments" | 8 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | "Whole Lotta Woman" | 3 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | "Who's Sorry Now" | 6 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | "All I Have to Do Is Dream" | 8 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | "When" | 5 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | "Stupid Cupid" / "Carolina Moon" | 5 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | "Bird Dog" * | 2 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 10 | "Hoots Mon" | 8 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" colspan=6 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 11 | "It's Only Make Believe" | 3 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 12 | "I Got Stung" / "One Night" | 3 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 13 | "As I Love You" | 3 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 14 | "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" | 3 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 15 | "Side Saddle" | 3 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 16 | "It Doesn't Matter Any More" | 4 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 17 | "" / "I Need Your Love Tonight" | 4 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 18 | "Roulette" | 1 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 19 | "Dream Lover" | 5 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 20 | "Living Doll" | 5 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 21 | "Only Sixteen" | 5 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 22 | "Here Comes Summer" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 23 | "Travellin' Light" | 6 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 24 | and The Checkmates | "What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?" | 2 | |||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 25 | "What Do You Want?" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" colspan=6 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | and The Checkmates | "What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?" | 4 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 26 | "Starry Eyed" | 1 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 27 | "Why" | 5 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 28 | "Poor Me" | 1 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 29 | "Running Bear" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 30 | "My Old Man's a Dustman" | 3 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 31 | "Stuck on You" * | 1 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 32 | "Do You Mind?" | 1 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 33 | "Cathy's Clown" | 7 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 34 | "Mama" / "Robot Man" * | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 35 | "Good Timin'" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 36 | "Please Don't Tease" | 4 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 37 | "Apache" | 6 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 38 | "Tell Laura I Love Her" | 3 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 39 | "Only the Lonely (Know How I Feel)" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 40 | "It's Now or Never" | 7 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 41 | "I Love You" | 3 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" colspan=6 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 42 | "Poetry in Motion" | 1 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 43 | "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" | 5 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 44 | "Sailor" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 45 | "Walk Right Back" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 46 | "Wooden Heart" | 3 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 47 | "Are You Sure?" * | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | "Wooden Heart" | 1 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 48 | "Blue Moon" | 3 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 49 | "Surrender" | 3 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 50 | "Runaway" | 4 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 51 | "A Girl Like You" * | 1 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 52 | "Temptation" | 1 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 53 | "Well I Ask You" | 1 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 54 | "You Don't Know" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 55 | "Johnny Remember Me" | 7 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 56 | "Michael (Row the Boat)" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 57 | "Walkin' Back to Happiness" | 3 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 58 | "His Latest Flame" | 4 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 59 | "Tower of Strength" | 5 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" colspan=6 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 60 | "Stranger on the Shore" * | 1 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 61 | "" | 5 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 62 | "Rock-A-Hula Baby" / "Can't Help Falling in Love" | 3 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 63 | "March of the Siamese Children" * | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 64 | "Wonderful Land" | 7 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 65 | "Nut Rocker" | 1 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 66 | "Good Luck Charm" | 7 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 67 | "" * | 1 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 68 | "I Can't Stop Loving You" | 1 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 69 | "I Remember You" | 5 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 70 | "Speedy Gonzales" * | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 71 | "She's Not You" | 4 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 72 | "Telstar" | 5 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 73 | "Lovesick Blues" | 5 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 74 | "Return to Sender" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 75 | "" / "Bachelor Boy" | 5 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" colspan=6 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 76 | "Diamonds" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 77 | "" | 1 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 78 | "Please Please Me" * | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 79 | "Summer Holiday" | 3 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 80 | "Foot Tapper" | 1 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 81 | "How Do You Do It?" | 4 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 82 | "From Me to You" | 5 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 83 | "Do You Want to Know a Secret" * | 1 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 84 | "I Like It" | 5 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 85 | "I'm Confessin'" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 86 | "Sweets for My Sweet" | 3 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 87 | "Bad to Me" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 88 | "She Loves You" | 4 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 89 | "Do You Love Me" | 3 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 90 | "You'll Never Walk Alone" | 5 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | "She Loves You" | 1 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 91 | "I Want to Hold Your Hand" | 5 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" colspan=6 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 92 | "Glad All Over" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 93 | "Hippy Hippy Shake" * | 1 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 94 | "Needles and Pins" | 3 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 95 | "Anyone Who Had a Heart" | 3 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 96 | "Bits and Pieces" * | 1 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 97 | "Little Children" | 1 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 98 | "Can't Buy Me Love" | 3 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 99 | "" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 100 | "Don't Throw Your Love Away" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 101 | "Juliet" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 102 | "You're My World (Il Mio Mondo)" | 3 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 103 | "It's Over" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 104 | "The House of the Rising Sun" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 105 | "" | 4 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 106 | "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 107 | "Have I the Right?" | 3 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 108 | "I'm Into Something Good" | 3 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 109 | "Oh, Pretty Woman" | 3 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 110 | "" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 111 | "Baby Love" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 112 | "Little Red Rooster" | 1 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 113 | "I Feel Fine" | 6 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" colspan=6 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 114 | "Yeh Yeh" | 1 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 115 | "Go Now" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 116 | "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" | 1 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 117 | "Tired of Waiting for You" | 1 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 118 | "I'll Never Find Another You" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 119 | "It's Not Unusual" | 1 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 120 | "" | 4 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 121 | "Concrete and Clay" | 1 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 122 | "Ticket to Ride" | 4 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 123 | "A World of Our Own" * | 1 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 124 | "Where Are You Now (My Love)" | 1 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 125 | "Long Live Love" | 3 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 126 | "Crying in the Chapel" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 127 | "I'm Alive" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 128 | "Mr. Tambourine Man" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 129 | "Help!" | 4 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 130 | "I Got You Babe" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 131 | "" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 132 | "Make It Easy on Yourself" | 1 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 133 | "Tears" | 5 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 134 | "Get Off of My Cloud" | 3 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 135 | "" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 136 | "Day Tripper" / "We Can Work It Out" | 5 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" colspan=6 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 137 | "Keep On Running" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 138 | "Michelle" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 139 | "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" | 1 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 140 | "19th Nervous Breakdown" * | 3 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 141 | "Sha-La-La-La-Lee" * | 1 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 142 | "" | 4 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 143 | "Somebody Help Me" | 1 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 144 | "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 145 | "Pretty Flamingo" | 3 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 146 | "Wild Thing" * | 1 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 147 | "Strangers in the Night" | 3 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 148 | "Paperback Writer" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 149 | "Sunny Afternoon" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 150 | "Out of Time" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 151 | "With a Girl Like You" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 152 | "Yellow Submarine" / "Eleanor Rigby" | 3 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 153 | "All or Nothing" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 154 | "Distant Drums" | 4 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 155 | "Reach Out I'll Be There" | 4 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 156 | "Good Vibrations" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 157 | "Green, Green Grass of Home" | 4 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 158 | "Morningtown Ride" * | 1 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" colspan=6 | |||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | "Green, Green Grass of Home" | 2 | |||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 159 | "I'm a Believer" | 4 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 160 | "This Is My Song" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 161 | "Release Me" | 5 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 162 | "This Is My Song" * | 1 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 163 | "Somethin' Stupid" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 164 | "Puppet on a String" | 3 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 165 | "Silence Is Golden" | 3 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 166 | "" | 6 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 167 | "All You Need Is Love" | 2 | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center;" | 168 | "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" | 3 |