User:Rambo's Revenge/List of Disc number-one singles

Disc is a former British weekly pop music newspaper. From 1958 until 1967, the Disc compiled its own record chart which was used by many national newspapers. It formed as a rival to the existing charts published by NME, Record Mirror, and Melody Maker. Discs chart, like NMEs and Melody Maker's, was based on a telephone poll of record stores&mdash;rival chart, Record Mirror, was based on the postal returns. On 1 February 1958 Disc compiled its first chart using figures from 20 shops. The first chart-topper was "..." by ..., with the newspaper having compiled a Top Twenty. Throughout the 1950s Disc's sample sizes remained below 40 shops and in the early 1960s the sample size was increased to approximately 50 and compiled by Fred Zebadee; other rival charts had increased their samples to around 100 but this was too expensive for Disc. In the early 1960s Record Mirror could no longer afford to keep compiling the chart and some national newspapers switched to using Melody Maker's chart (the Record Mirror ceased on 24 March 1962). On 23 April 1966 the chart run by Mersey Beat was incorporated into Disc which became Disc and Music Echo. On 26 August 1967, Disc, who was then owned by the same company as Melody Maker, stopped compiling their own chart and started using the Melody Maker chart.

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 Melody Maker 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 canonical source for the British singles chart before 10 March 1960 and Record Retailer after that.

Number-one singles

 * Key
 * – The song did not reach number one on the Record Retailer chart which is considered by The Official Charts Company as the canonical source until 15 February 1969.
 * – The song spent a week at number one where it shared the top spot with another song.