List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1961

This is a list of number-one hits on the Billboard charts as determined by the U.S. ( Hot 100 ) in 1961. This year there were 22 number-one singles and eleven number-one albums.

  • Elvis Presley: Are You Lonesome Tonight? Six weeks (November 28, 1960 - January 8, 1961 )
  • 3 weeks ( 9 January to 29 January )
  • 2 weeks ( 30 January to 12 February )
  • 2 weeks ( February 13 to February 26 )
  • 3 weeks ( February 27-March 19 )
  • 2 weeks ( March 20-April 2 )
  • 3 weeks ( April 3 to April 23 )
  • 4 weeks ( April 24 to May 21 )
  • 2 weeks ( 26 June-9 July )
  • 7 weeks ( July 10 to August 27 )
  • 2 weeks ( September 4 to September 17 )
  • 3 weeks ( 18 September to 8 October )
  • 2 weeks ( October 9 to October 22 )
  • 2 weeks ( 23 October to 5 November )
  • 5 weeks ( 6 November to 10 December )
  • Three weeks (December 18, 1961 - January 12, 1962 )
  • Elvis Presley - G.I. blues 8 weeks ( total 10 weeks)
  • 4 weeks ( a total of 5 weeks)
  • 7 weeks ( total 14 weeks)
  • 8 weeks ( total 11 weeks)
  • 9 weeks
  • 3 weeks
  • 7 weeks
  • 20 weeks (December 7, 1963 - February 14, 1964 )

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  • Number - one hits on the country
  • Music 1961
The Shirelles Lawrence Welk Chubby Checker The Marcels Blue Moon (song) Del Shannon Runaway (Del Shannon song) Ernie K-Doe Pat Boone Joe Dowell Wooden Heart The Highwaymen (folk band) Bobby Vee Hit the Road Jack Jimmy Dean The Tokens Bob Newhart Exodus (1960 film) Judy at Carnegie Hall Enoch Light List of Billboard number-one singles List of Billboard number-one singles of 1940 List of Billboard number-one singles of 1941 List of Billboard number-one singles of 1942 List of Billboard number-one singles of 1943 List of Billboard number-one singles of 1944 List of Billboard number-one singles of 1945 List of Billboard number-one singles of 1946 List of Billboard number-one singles of 1947 List of Billboard number-one singles of 1948 List of Billboard number-one singles of 1949 List of Billboard number-one singles of 1950 List of Billboard number-one singles of 1951 List of Billboard number-one singles of 1952 List of Billboard number-one singles of 1953 List of Billboard number-one singles of 1954 List of Billboard number-one singles of 1955 List of Billboard number-one singles of 1956 List of Billboard number-one singles of 1957 List of Billboard number-one singles of 1958 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1959 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1960 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1962 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1963 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1964 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1965 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1966 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1967 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1968 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1969 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1970 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1971 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1972 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1973 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1974 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1975 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1976 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1977 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1978 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1979 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1980 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1981 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1982 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1983 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1984 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1985 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1986 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1987 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1988 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1989 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1990 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1991 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1992 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1993 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1994 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1995 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1996 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1997 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1998 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1999 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2000 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2001 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2002 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2003 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2004 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2005 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2006 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2007 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2008 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2009 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2010 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2011 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2012 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2013 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2014
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