[quote by=The_End link=Blah.pl?b=conversations,m=1082392820,s=18 date=1082423995]One thing that REALLY bugs the crap outa me is the fact that all of a sudden EMI/Apple have decided that Please Please Me DIDN'T get to number one afterall! The Music Week charts used by Guinness in their "Hit Singles" book are NOT the charts everyone used in 1963 - the "official" chart was the one in the New Musical Express (NME)!
Throughout the sleeve-notes on the Please Please Me LP it mentions the Beatles chart-topper, and in Anthology, The Beatles themselves believe their second single was number one. But the track is missing from their "1" CD compilation! Why now has Please Please Me been relegated to number 2?
And so the argument has gone for over 40 years!
And one other thing... just because the publishers chose to use a different chart for that period, we now have to live with the fact that Elvis has had one more number one than The Beatles!
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr [/quote]
i have a book over all top 40 hits and in there it says PPM was a #1. Everywere i read and hear it says it was a #1, except album 1. I've noticed that and it terks me too.