Mersey Beat is a former British weekly pop music newspaper.
In 1963 it began compiling a Top 20 chart based on around 10 stores and became a national paper.
[1] On 6 March 1965 the paper was rebranded Music Echo and by 16 April 1966 the chart was no longer published—on 23 April 1966 the newspaper was incorporated into Disc which became Disc and Music Echo.
The first record chart in the United Kingdom was published in November 1952 by NME.
[4][5] Charts compiled by Mersey Beat had thirteen number-one singles that did not reach top spot in the Record Retailer chart; this included two singles from each of The Who and The Hollies.