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Other singles were released under their name that were successful in the United States, but none found success in the UK. Ron Dante, the session vocalist who sings lead on "Sugar Sugar", had two UK Top 10 hits in 1969/70 as the vocalist for The Cuff Links. Lee Marvin. 7 March 1970. "Wand'rin' Star".
John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, who had two number-one singles in 1978 and occupied the top spot for over a quarter of the year. ABBA, who had 7 number-one singles in the 1970s, the most of any musical act during the decade. Rod Stewart, who had 5 number-one singles in the 1970s. Former Beatles member George Harrison had the best-selling ...
The UK Singles Chart is the official record chart in the United Kingdom. Prior to 1969 there was no official singles chart; [1] [2] [3] however, The Official Charts Company and Guinness' British Hit Singles & Albums regard the canonical sources as New Musical Express before 10 March 1960 and Record Retailer from then until 15 February 1969 when Retailer and the BBC jointly commissioned the ...
The Rolling Stones had five of the biggest-selling singles of the decade. American singer Elvis Presley featured in the decade-end singles chart with four songs. Between 1960 and 1969, Cliff Richard released three of the best-selling singles. British comedian Ken Dodd 's 1965 song "Tears" was the third best-selling track of the decade.
The BPI Year Book chart was a list of the biggest-selling singles in the UK for the period 1960-79: although it was published midway through 1979, the list includes the year's two biggest selling singles, "Bright Eyes" by Art Garfunkel and "Heart of Glass" by Blondie. Stripping out the songs from the 1960s, the remaining 16 songs in the list ...
The UK singles chart is a weekly record chart which for most of its history was based on single sales from Sunday to Saturday in the United Kingdom. [1] The chart was founded in 1952 by Percy Dickins of New Musical Express (NME), who telephoned 20 record stores to ask what their top 10 highest-selling singles were.
The UK Singles Chart is a weekly record chart which for most of its history was based on single sales from Sunday to Saturday in the United Kingdom. Since July 2014 it has also incorporated streaming data, and from 10 July 2015 has been based on a Friday to Thursday week. As of 28 December 2023, 1420 singles have reached number one.
The first number one album on the Record Retailer chart. [6] Blind Faith. Blind Faith. Polydor. 20 September 1969. 2. Although the band Blind Faith had one number-one album and nothing else, each member of the supergroup (including Steve Winwood and Eric Clapton) had further album chart success.