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Simon & Garfunkel had two songs on the Year-End Hot 100, including "Bridge Over Troubled Water" The Jackson 5 had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1970. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of the year 1970. [1] It covers from January 3 to November 28, 1970. [2]
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). #
Arguably one of the best decades of music, the 1970s saw the rise of disco, long shaggy hair, the continuation of the free love movement, and, of course, Rock and Roll at its height of fame ...
Diana Ross and George Harrison, having already hit number one with the Supremes and the Beatles, respectively, hit number one for the first time as solo acts, Ross being the only single female to reach the top of the charts. The Jackson 5 and the Beatles had more than one song hit number one that year, the Jackson 5 having the most with four ...
US Billboard 1970 #1, Hot100 #1 for 6 weeks, 14 total weeks, Grammy Hall of Fame 1998, National Recording Registry 2012, 264 points 2: B. J. Thomas "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" Scepter 12265: June 1969: October 1969: 6: 3.00: US Billboard 1970 #2, Hot100 #1 for 4 weeks, 22 total weeks, Grammy Hall of Fame 2014 (CashBox ranking is 1969 ...
Cinema in the 1970s was marked by experimentation. The Post's Ann Hornaday revisits the decade through the lens of "Love Story," a surprise No. 1 film, 50 years later.
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.
1970 [3] "Lookin' for a Reason" John Fogerty Mardi Gras: 1972 [8] "Lookin' Out My Back Door" John Fogerty Cosmo's Factory: 1970 [3] " The Midnight Special" Traditional arr. John Fogerty † Willy and the Poor Boys: 1969 [7] "Molina" John Fogerty Pendulum: 1970 [5] "My Baby Left Me" Arthur Crudup † Cosmo's Factory: 1970 [3] "Need Someone to ...