| Year |
Total
Releases |
Number
of Top 30 Successes |
%
of releases that were hits |
| 1954 |
117 |
3 |
2.6% |
| 1955 |
106 |
4 |
3.8% |
| 1956 |
139 |
23 |
16.5% |
| 1957 |
175 |
35 |
20% |
| 1958 |
242 |
34 |
14% |
| 1959 |
235 |
42 |
17.9% |
| 1960 |
238 |
30 |
12% |
| 1961 |
224 |
40 |
17.9% |
| 1962 |
165 |
18 |
10.9% |
| 1963 |
178 |
18 |
10.1% |
| 1964 |
111 |
8 |
7.2% |
| 1965 |
73 |
11 |
15.1% |
| 1966 |
88 |
8 |
9.1% |
| 1967 |
74 |
2 |
2.7% |
| 1968 |
60 |
2 |
3.3% |
| 1969 |
60 |
3 |
5% |
| 1970 |
27 |
1 |
3.7% |
Talking
about top 30 success, the following artists had all the hits...
169 (54%) of London's 309 top 30 entries were by 17 artists
The US
labels that were the most
successful with London releases in the Top 30
Jamie was
totally Duane Eddy and Monument was totally
Roy Orbison (Roy also had hits from M-G-M).