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The Bee Gees scored the most number-one hits (9 songs) and had the longest cumulative run atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart (27 weeks) during the 1970s. Rod Stewart remained at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 17 weeks during the 1970s. Elton John amassed the second-most number-one hits on the Hot 100 chart during the 1970s (6 songs). #
Wilson has been a member of Heart since the early 1970s; her younger sister, Nancy Wilson, is also a member of the band. One of the first hard rock bands fronted by women, [ 2 ] Heart released numerous albums between 1975 and 2016; the early Heart albums Dreamboat Annie (1975) and Little Queen (1977) generated classic hard rock singles such as ...
Simon Dupree and The Big Sound; The Singing Nun; Sir Douglas Quintet; Skeeter Davis; The Skyliners; Slim Harpo; Sly & The Family Stone; Small Faces; Smith; Soft Machine; Solomon Burke; The Sonics; Sonny & Cher; Sonny Stitt; Sopwith Camel; Spanky & Our Gang; The Spencer Davis Group; Spiral Starecase; Spirit; Spooky Tooth; The Springfields; The ...
Presley—whose top 1970s hit was "Burning Love" in 1972— ranked among the top artists of the rock era, while Crosby was among the most successful pre-rock era artists. The early seventies also marked the deaths of rock legends Jim Morrison , Janis Joplin , and Jimi Hendrix as well as the plane crash in 1977 in which three members of Lynyrd ...
Roy Orbison was one of rock's famous artists who wrote ballads of lost love. In the early part of the decade, Elvis Presley continued to score hits. For most of the 60s, Presley mostly released films. Presley decided to get away from films by 1969; his last #1 song on the charts was Suspicious Minds which was released in 1969.
The Inglewood resident was one of very few Black men to have success in country music in the 1970s, and one of two known Black male artists from California who performed at a nationally-charting ...
In 1970, there were 23 songs that reached the top spot on the chart, but by the mid-1970s, more than 40 titles rotated in and out of the top spot for the first time in history. The trend temporarily reversed itself by the late 1970s, when about 30 to 35 songs reached the pinnacle position of the chart annually.
Heart has sold over 35 million records worldwide, had 20 top-forty singles and seven top-ten albums, [115] and earned four Grammy nominations. [116] The band charted singles and top-ten albums on the Billboard charts in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2010s: [ 32 ] a four-decade span of top-ten albums that is a record for a female-fronted band.