List of songs by British artists which reached number-one on the Hot 100 (USA)

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This is a list of number-one hits by British artists in the United States on the Billboard Hot 100 (existent since August 3, 1958). Older number ones are listed with their rating (e.g. "Best Seller in Stores"). In total 163 songs by British artists have reached number one on the Hot 100, however only 33% of these managed the same success in the home nation. Also 54% managed to reach the top 3 on the UK Singles Chart and 80%, the top 10.

Date	Song	Artist(s)	Position in UK Charts
July 26, 1952	Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart ("Best Seller in Stores")	Vera Lynn	10
April 14, 1958	He's Got the Whole World in His Hands ("Most Played by Jockeys")	Laurie London	12
May 26, 1962	Stranger on the Shore	Mr. Acker Bilk	N/A
December 22	Telstar	The Tornados	1
February 1, 1964	I Want to Hold Your Hand	The Beatles	1
March 21	She Loves You	The Beatles	1
April 4	Can't Buy Me Love	The Beatles	1
May 30	Love Me Do	The Beatles	4
June 27	A World Without Love	Peter & Gordon	1
August 1	A Hard Day's Night	The Beatles	1
September 5	The House of the Rising Sun	The Animals	1
October 17	Do Wah Diddy Diddy	Manfred Mann	1
December 26	I Feel Fine	The Beatles	1
January 23, 1965	Downtown	Petula Clark	2
March 13	Eight Days a Week	The Beatles	N/A
April 10	I'm Telling You Now	Freddie & the Dreamers	2
April 24	Game of Love	Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders	2
May 1	Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter	Herman's Hermits	N/A
May 22	Ticket to Ride	The Beatles	1
July 10	(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction	Rolling Stones	1
August 7	I'm Henry VIII, I Am	Herman's Hermits	N/A
September 4	Help!	The Beatles	1
October 9	Yesterday	The Beatles	8
November 6	Get off of My Cloud	Rolling Stones	1
December 25	Over and Over	The Dave Clark Five	N/A
January 8, 1966	We Can Work It Out	The Beatles	1
February 5	My Love	Petula Clark	4
June 11	Paint It, Black	The Rolling Stones	1
June 25	Paperback Writer	The Beatles	1
July 30	Wild Thing	The Troggs	2
September 3	Sunshine Superman	Donovan	2
December 3	Winchester Cathedral	The New Vaudeville Band	4
March 4, 1967	Ruby Tuesday	The Rolling Stones	3
March 18	Penny Lane	The Beatles	2
August 19	All You Need Is Love	The Beatles	1
October 21	To Sir, with Love	Lulu	N/A
December 30	Hello, Goodbye	The Beatles	1
September 28, 1968	Hey Jude	The Beatles	1
May 24, 1969	Get Back	The Beatles with Billy Preston	1^[1]
August 23	Honky Tonk Women	The Rolling Stones	1
November 29	Come Together / Something	The Beatles	4
April 11, 1970	Let It Be	The Beatles	2
June 13	The Long and Winding Road / For You Blue	The Beatles	N/A
December 26	My Sweet Lord / Isn't It a Pity	George Harrison	1
May 29, 1971	Brown Sugar	The Rolling Stones	2
August 7	How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?	Bee Gees	N/A^[2]
September 4	Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey	Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney	N/A^[3]
October 2	Maggie May / Reason To Believe	Rod Stewart	1
February 3, 1973	Crocodile Rock	Elton John	5
June 2	My Love	Paul McCartney and Wings	9
June 30	Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)	George Harrison	8
October 20	Angie	The Rolling Stones	5
November 24	Photograph	Ringo Starr	8
January 26, 1974	You're Sixteen	Ringo Starr	N/A
April 13	Bennie and the Jets	Elton John	37
June 8	Band on the Run	Paul McCartney and Wings	3
August 17	The Night Chicago Died	Paper Lace	3
September 14	I Shot The Sheriff	Eric Clapton	9
November 16	Whatever Gets You Thru the Night	John Lennon	36
January 4, 1975	Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds	Elton John	10
February 22	Pick Up the Pieces	The Average White Band	6
April 12	Philadelphia Freedom	The Elton John Band	12
July 19	Listen to What the Man Said	Paul McCartney and Wings	6
August 9	Jive Talkin'	Bee Gees	5
September 20	Fame	David Bowie	17
November 1	Island Girl	Elton John	14
January 3, 1976	Saturday Night	Bay City Rollers	N/A
May 22	Silly Love Songs	Wings	2
August 7	Don't Go Breaking My Heart	Elton John and Kiki Dee	1
September 4	You Should Be Dancing	Bee Gees	5
November 13	Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)	Rod Stewart	5
January 15, 1977	You Make Me Feel Like Dancing	Leo Sayer	2
February 19	Blinded by the Light	Manfred Mann's Earth Band	6
May 14	When I Need You	Leo Sayer	1
June 18	Dreams	Fleetwood Mac	24
July 30	I Just Want To Be Your Everything	Andy Gibb	26^[4]
September 17	I Just Want To Be Your Everything	Andy Gibb	26
December 24	How Deep Is Your Love	Bee Gees	3
February 4, 1978	Stayin' Alive	Bee Gees	1
March 4	(Love Is) Thicker Than Water	Andy Gibb	N/A
March 18	Night Fever	Bee Gees	1
June 17	Shadow Dancing	Andy Gibb	N/A
August 5	Miss You	The Rolling Stones	3
January 6, 1979	Too Much Heaven	Bee Gees	3
February 10	Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?	Rod Stewart	1
March 24	Tragedy	Bee Gees	1
June 9	Love You Inside Out	Bee Gees	13
February 23, 1980	Crazy Little Thing Called Love	Queen	2
March 22	Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)	Pink Floyd	1
June 28	Coming Up (Live At Glasgow)	Paul McCartney and Wings	2
October 4	Another One Bites the Dust	Queen	7
December 27	(Just Like) Starting Over	John Lennon	1
May 2, 1981	Morning Train (Nine to Five)	Sheena Easton	3
July 25	The One That You Love	Air Supply	N/A ^[5]
May 15, 1982	Ebony and Ivory	Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder	1 ^[6]
July 3	Don't You Want Me	The Human League	1
November 6	Up Where We Belong	Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes	7 ^[7]
April 23, 1983	Come On Eileen	Dexys Midnight Runners	1
May 21	Let's Dance	David Bowie	1
July 9	Every Breath You Take	The Police	1 ^[8]
September 3	Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)	Eurythmics	2
October 1	Total Eclipse of the Heart	Bonnie Tyler	1
December 10	Say Say Say	Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson	2 ^[9]
January 21, 1984	Owner of a Lonely Heart	Yes	9
February 4	Karma Chameleon	Culture Club	1
April 21	Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)	Phil Collins	2
June 23	The Reflex	Duran Duran	1
September 22	Missing You	John Waite	9
November 17	Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go	Wham!	1
February 16, 1985	Careless Whisper	George Michael	1
March 30	One More Night	Phil Collins	4
May 18	Don't You (Forget About Me)	Simple Minds	7
June 8	Everybody Wants to Rule the World	Tears for Fears	2
July 6	Sussudio	Phil Collins	12
July 13	A View to a Kill	Duran Duran	2
July 27	Everytime You Go Away	Paul Young	4
August 3	Shout	Tears for Fears	4
September 7	St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)	John Parr	6
September 21	Money for Nothing	Dire Straits	4
November 30	Separate Lives	Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin	4 ^[10]
January 18, 1986	That's What Friends Are For	Dionne and Friends	16^[11]
May 3	Addicted to Love	Robert Palmer	5
May 10	West End Girls	Pet Shop Boys	1
July 12	Holding Back the Years	Simply Red	2
July 19	Invisible Touch	Genesis	15
July 26	Sledgehammer	Peter Gabriel	4
August 30	Higher Love	Steve Winwood	13
September 6	Venus	Bananarama	8
November 22	Human	Human League	8
April 18, 1987	I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)	Aretha Franklin and George Michael	1^[12]
May 2	(I Just) Died In Your Arms	Cutting Crew	4
June 6	You Keep Me Hangin' On	Kim Wilde	2
November 21	Mony Mony "Live"	Billy Idol	1
December 12	Faith	George Michael	2
January 16, 1988	Got My Mind Set on You	George Harrison	2
February 27	Father Figure	George Michael	11
March 12	Never Gonna Give You Up	Rick Astley	1
May 28	One More Try	George Michael	8
June 18	Together Forever	Rick Astley	1
August 27	Monkey	George Michael	13
October 8	Love Bites	Def Leppard	11
October 15	Red Red Wine	UB40	1
October 22	Groovy Kind of Love	Phil Collins	1
January 21, 1989	Two Hearts	Phil Collins	6
March 25	The Living Years	Mike + The Mechanics	2
April 15	She Drives Me Crazy	Fine Young Cannibals	5
July 8	Good Thing	Fine Young Cannibals	7
July 15	If You Don't Know Me By Now	Simply Red	2
December 23	Another Day In Paradise	Phil Collins	4
October 6, 1990	Close to You	Maxi Priest	7
October 13	Praying for Time	George Michael	6
July 20, 1991	Unbelievable	EMF	3
February 1, 1992	Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me	George Michael and Elton John	1
February 8	I'm Too Sexy	Right Said Fred	2
July 24, 1993	Can't Help Falling in Love	UB40	1
January 22, 1994	All For Love	Bryan Adams / Rod Stewart / Sting	2 ^[13]
August 26, 1995	Kiss From a Rose	Seal	4
February 22, 1997	Wannabe	Spice Girls	1
October 11	Candle In The Wind 1997 / Something About the Way You Look Tonight	Elton John	1
March 11, 2006	You're Beautiful	James Blunt	1
March 27, 2008	Bleeding Love	Leona Lewis	1

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N/A represents a single that wasn't released in the UK, or failed to chart

^ Billy Preston was American.
^ The Bee Gees were born on the Isle of Man, a Crown dependency that is not part of the UK, and moved to the UK proper in their early childhood, but moved to Australia later in their childhood and resided there for about ten years before moving back to the UK.
^ Linda McCartney was an American. It is unknown whether she chose to become British national too.
^ Andy Gibb is the brother of the Bee Gees. He was born in the UK proper, but moved with the rest of his family to Australia as an infant, grew up mainly in Australia, and lived in the US for most of his recording career.
^ Graham Russell of Air Supply is British, Russell Hitchcock is Australian.
^ Paul McCartney is British, Stevie Wonder is American
^ Joe Cocker is British, Jennifer Warnes is American
^ The Police were Britons Sting and Andy Summers, and American Stewart Copeland.
^ Paul McCartney is British, Michael Jackson is American.
^ Phil Colins is British, Marilyn Martin is American.
^ Dionne and Friends are Americans Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight and Briton Elton John.
^ George Michael is British, Aretha Franklin is American.
^ Rod Stewart and Sting are British, Bryan Adams is Canadian.

Olivia Newton-John, who has five US chart toppers, was born in the United Kingdom but moved to Australia at the age of five. Despite moving back to the UK, and later the US, she still considers herself very much Australian.

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