Last updated 1/28/2025

The Top 30 Songs of 1962, as charted by Billboard Magazine, will be presented each month during the season.

675 records appeared on the Hot 100 chart in 1962. 191 more were Bubbling Under the Hot 100.

Songs that reached the Top 10 on another chart are marked with EL (Easy Listening),
C (Country), and R&B (Rhythm and Blues).

 
All tracks are stereo 320 kbps mp3 files, converted from higher-resolution digital files.
Some have been converted from mono recordings using the Digitally Extracted Stereo (DES) process.

The source reference for this list is “Joel Whitburn’s Pop Annual 1950-2023.”

The structure of the annual charts is simple: records are rated on the highest position reached on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the number of weeks spent at that position. Ties are broken by the number of weeks spent in the Top 10, Top 40, and Top 100.

If a record charted in more than one year, all of its chart history is treated as if it occurred in the year that the record first hit its peak position, so it will not appear at all in the other year’s listing.