![]() ![]() The longest unbroken run at number one on the Easy Listening/Middle-Road chart in 1962 was achieved by Acker Bilk, who spent seven consecutive weeks atop the listing with the instrumental " Stranger on the Shore". "I Can't Stop Loving You" was one of a number of Easy Listening/Middle-Road number ones of 1962 to go all the way to number one on the Hot 100, and it also reached the top of Billboard 's R&B chart. " I Can't Stop Loving You" and " You Don't Know Me" spent a total of eight weeks in the top spot, the most for any artist. He reached the top with two tracks from his album Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, which is considered to have been a ground-breaking record. Ray Charles was the only artist with more than one number one in 1962. The chart was published under the title Easy Listening through the issue of Billboard dated October 27, after which it was renamed Middle-Road Singles. ![]() In 1962, 15 different songs topped the chart in 52 issues of the magazine. First published in 1961, the listing was compiled until 1965 by simply extracting from the magazine's all-genre chart, the Hot 100, those songs which were deemed of an appropriate style and ranking them according to their placings on the Hot 100. Ray Charles had two number ones in 1962, both taken from his album Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music.Īdult Contemporary is a chart published by Billboard ranking the top-performing songs in the United States in the adult contemporary music (AC) market. ![]()
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