"Just about everyone is tired of the Beatles. Disk jockeys are tired of playing the hit group," the story continued. (Cleverly headlined "Chart Crawls With Beatles," the item was written by Jack Maher and Tom Noonan, the latter of whom launched the Hot 100 in 1958.) "The writers of trade and consumer publication articles are tired of writing about them and the manufacturers of product other than the Beatles are tired of hearing about them."
Billboard, of course, noted one key exception.
"Everyone's tired of the Beatles – except the listening and buying public."
With a 27-1 second-week blast to the top for "Can't Buy Me Love," the Fab Four locked up the Hot 100's entire top five:
No. 1, "Can't Buy Me Love"
No. 2, "Twist and Shout"
No. 3, "She Loves You"
No. 4, "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
No. 5, "Please Please Me"
Two artists have come closest to the Beatles' airtight top five mark: 50 Cent and Justin Bieber, each of whom has charted three top five titles simultaneously. 50 Cent placed "Candy Shop," the Game's "How We Go" (on which he's featured) and "Disco Inferno" in the top five for two weeks in 2005, while Bieber (the only artist other than the Beatles with three concurrent top five hits all as a lead act) tripled up for five weeks December 2015 and January 2016 with "Sorry," "Love Yourself" and "What Do You Mean?"