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The Carpenters had three songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1971. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 singles of 1971. [1] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated December 25, 1971, is based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of January 2 through November 27, 1971.
Was 1971 the best single year for recorded popular music, ever? Or merely the year in which it reached peak cultural significance? Maybe, just maybe, the answer could be: both. You’ll certainly ...
The Billboard Year-End chart is a chart published by Billboard which denotes the top song of each year as determined by the publication's charts. Since 1946, Year-End charts have existed for the top songs in pop, R&B, and country, with additional album charts for each genre debuting in 1956, 1966, and 1965, respectively.
George Harrison became the first post-Beatles solo act to hit #1 with "My Sweet Lord" / "Isn't It a Pity" in 1970 and 1971. These are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1971. That year, 16 acts hit number one for the first time, such as Dawn , the Osmonds , Janis Joplin , Honey Cone , Carole King , the Raiders , James Taylor , the Bee ...
1 April 10 "Joy to the World" Three Dog Night: 1 April 17 11 "One Toke Over the Line" Brewer & Shipley: 10 April 10 2 April 17 "Put Your Hand in the Hand" Ocean: 2 May 1 7 April 24 "Never Can Say Goodbye" The Jackson 5: 2 May 8 7 "I Am... I Said" Neil Diamond: 4 May 8 4 "If" Bread: 4 May 15 5 "Stay Awhile" The Bells: 7 May 1 4 May 1
Brenda Lee also holds the record span between first and most recent No. 1 on the Hot 100 over the longest period of time: 63 years, five months, two weeks, and five days dating to her first week at No. 1 on the chart dated July 18, 1960, with "I'm Sorry" to her most recent No. 1, "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", which was most recently at ...
Prior to incorporating chart data from Nielsen SoundScan (from 1991), year-end charts were calculated by an inverse-point system based solely on a title's performance (for example a single appearing on the Billboard Hot 100 would be given one point for a week spent at position 100, two points for a week spent at position ninety-nine, and so forth, up to 100 points for each week spent at number ...
US BB 1 – May 1971, Canada 1 – May 1971, Netherlands 1 – May 1971, Switzerland 1 – May 1971, UK 2 – Apr 1971, US BB 3 of 1971, POP 3 of 1971, Norway 4 – May 1971, Germany 5 – May 1971, Australia Goset 5 – Jun 1971, DDD 8 of 1971, France 9 – Apr 1971, RYM 11 of 1971, Virgin 21, US CashBox 38 of 1971, TheQ 82, Scrobulate 89 of ...