List of Billboard Middle-Road Singles number ones of 1963

Adult Contemporary is a chart published by Billboard ranking the top-performing songs in the United States in the adult contemporary music (AC) genre. 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.[1] In 1963, during which the chart was published under the title Middle-Road Singles, 14 different songs topped the chart in 52 issues of the magazine.

Peter, Paul and Mary had two Middle-Road number ones in 1963, the only act to do so.

At the start of the year, Steve Lawrence held the number one position with "Go Away Little Girl", which stayed in the top spot through the issue of Billboard dated January 19 before it was replaced by "Walk Right In" by The Rooftop Singers. Only one act had more than one number one hit during the year: folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary spent two weeks at the top of the chart in May with "Puff, the Magic Dragon" and a further five weeks at number one in August with "Blowin' in the Wind". The latter song was replaced in the top spot by the longest-running Middle Road chart-topper of the year, "Blue Velvet" by Bobby Vinton, which spent eight consecutive weeks at number one. Vinton thus also had the highest total number of weeks at number one by any artist.

A number of acts who topped the Middle Road chart in 1963 never reached number one on the Hot 100, including The Cascades,[2] Skeeter Davis,[3] Rolf Harris,[4] and The Village Stompers.[5] Neither Al Martino or Andy Williams ever topped the Hot 100,[6][7] but both reached number one on the Most Played by Jockeys chart, one of the multiple all-genres charts which Billboard published prior to the creation of the Hot 100 in 1958.[8][9] The success of the Cascades was short-lived,[10] and the group achieved the unusual feat of topping the Middle-Road chart with the only one of their songs ever to appear on the listing.[2] This feat was also achieved by Belgian vocalist The Singing Nun, who had the final Middle-Road number one of 1963 with "Dominique". Although it also topped the Hot 100, it was the only song which The Singing Nun, also known as Soeur Sourire (Sister Smile), placed on any Billboard chart during her brief commercial career.[11][12]

Chart history
Japanese singer Kyu Sakamoto spent five weeks at number one with his song "Sukiyaki".
Bobby Vinton's "Blue Velvet" was the longest-running number one of the year.
Skeeter Davis topped the chart with "The End of the World".
Issue date Title Artist(s) Ref.
January 5 "Go Away Little Girl" Steve Lawrence [13]
January 12 [14]
January 19 [15]
January 26 "Walk Right In" The Rooftop Singers [16]
February 2 [17]
February 9 [18]
February 16 [19]
February 23 [20]
March 2 "Rhythm of the Rain" The Cascades [21]
March 9 [22]
March 16 "The End of the World" Skeeter Davis [23]
March 23 [24]
March 30 [25]
April 6 [26]
April 13 "Can't Get Used to Losing You" Andy Williams [27]
April 20 [28]
April 27 [29]
May 4 [30]
May 11 "Puff, the Magic Dragon" Peter, Paul and Mary [31]
May 18 [32]
May 25 "I Love You Because" Al Martino [33]
June 1 [34]
June 8 "Sukiyaki" Kyu Sakamoto [35]
June 15 [36]
June 22 [37]
June 29 [38]
July 6 [39]
July 13 "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport" Rolf Harris [40]
July 20 [41]
July 27 [42]
August 3 "Blowin' in the Wind" Peter, Paul and Mary [43]
August 10 [44]
August 17 [45]
August 24 [46]
August 31 [47]
September 7 "Blue Velvet" Bobby Vinton [48]
September 14 [49]
September 21 [50]
September 28 [51]
October 5 [52]
October 12 [53]
October 19 [54]
October 26 [55]
November 2 "Washington Square" The Village Stompers [56]
November 9 [57]
November 16 [58]
November 23 "I'm Leaving It Up to You" Dale and Grace [59]
November 30 [60]
December 7 "Dominique" The Singing Nun [61]
December 14 [62]
December 21 [63]
December 28 [64]

References
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