The Four Seasons Made Billboard History with Three Consecutive No. 1 Hits in 1963
The Four Seasons Made Billboard History with Three Consecutive No. 1 Hits in 1963
Andrea ReiherSat, March 7, 2026 at 1:51 PM UTC
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Sixty-three years ago this week, one of the biggest pop groups of the early 1960s made Billboard history.
On March 2, 1963, The Four Seasons hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Walk Like a Man," completing a run of three consecutive chart-topping singles.
The streak followed the group's earlier hits "Sherry" and "Big Girls Don't Cry," making The Four Seasons the first rock band in Hot 100 history to score three straight No. 1 singles.
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According to music historian Fred Bronson in "The Billboard Book of No. 1 Hits: The Inside Story Behind the Top of the Charts," the achievement made The Four Seasons the first group in Hot 100 history to score three straight No. 1 singles. The run followed “Sherry” and “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” cementing the Frankie Valli-fronted group as one of the dominant pop acts of the early 1960s.
Bronson notes that during their peak 27-week stretch beginning in September 1962, the group occupied the No. 1 position for 13 weeks—an extraordinary run for the pre-Beatles era.
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More than a decade later, the group would add another remarkable Beatles-era distinction. When “December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)” topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1976, The Four Seasons became the only artist ever to score No. 1 hits before, during and after The Beatles’ chart dominance—a rare achievement that traces back to their early-1960s streak with “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” and “Walk Like a Man.”
"Walk Like a Man" also ranks No. 1034 on Bronson’s Top 3000 Songs of the Rock Era list in Billboard’s Hottest Hot 100 Hits and is included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll," reflecting its sustained chart performance.
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In the third edition of "The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll," the group’s early-’60s run is described as a defining moment of American pop before the British Invasion reshaped the charts. The Four Seasons would go on to score additional hits throughout the decade, including “Candy Girl,” “Dawn (Go Away),” and later the 1975 comeback smash “Who Loves You.”
More than six decades later, “Walk Like a Man” remains one of the signature songs of the group’s initial hot streak—and the record-setting hit that made chart history.
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