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The Jackson 5 reached number one for the first time in January and by the end of the year had accumulated four chart-toppers.. Billboard published a weekly chart in 1970 ranking the top-performing singles in the United States in soul music and related African American-oriented music genres; the chart has undergone various name changes over the decades to reflect the evolution of such genres ...
The artists of the 1970s produced so many chart-topping hits we compiled a list. It includes bands and singers such as Stevie Wonder, ABBA, and Redbone.
It is part of Sony's Playlist album series, which covers 1972 through to 1978, when the O'Jays (and Gamble & Huff) were at the peak of the Charts. Every song on the album has placed somewhere within the Top 20 of the R&B chart , and many of them went to the top of the chart including " Back Stabbers ," " Love Train ," "For the Love of Money ...
Sounds of the Seventies was a 40-volume series issued by Time-Life during the late 1980s and early-to-mid 1990s, spotlighting pop music of the 1970s.. Much like Time-Life's other series chronicling popular music, volumes in the "Sounds of the Seventies" series covered a specific time period, including individual years in some volumes, and different parts of the decade (for instance, the early ...
Billboard Hot Soul Hits is a series of compilation albums released by Rhino Records in 1995, compiling 50 hit soul music recordings, which were popular in the 1970s. Five albums were released, containing ten songs from a specific year from 1970 through 1974. This series follows Rhino's Billboard Top R&B Hits series which covers the years 1955 ...
The Pointer Sisters gained their first number one with "How Long (Betcha' Got a Chick on the Side)".. Billboard published a weekly chart in 1975 ranking the top-performing singles in the United States in soul music and related African American-oriented genres; the chart has undergone various name changes over the decades to reflect the evolution of black music and since 2005 has been published ...
Roberta Flack spent five weeks at number one with "Feel Like Makin' Love", which Billboard ranked as the best-performing soul single of the year. Gladys Knight & the Pips (Knight pictured) had three number ones in 1974. "Rock Your Baby" by George McCrae (pictured in later life) topped both the soul chart and the all-genre Hot 100 listing.
The Best of The Stylistics is a compilation album released by the American soul group The Stylistics. Released in 1975, the album became a big success in the UK when it reached No.1. Hitting the pinnacle three times during the year, the album remained at No.1 for 9 weeks in total. [ 4 ]