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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). #
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]
From October through early November 2006, oldies radio station KQQL in Minneapolis/St. Paul, which is owned by iHeartMedia, ran a series of American Top 40 episodes from the 1970s. Aside from one week, when the station attempted to air a four-hour episode from 1979 in the three-hour time slot (resulting in the show getting cut off at No. 11 and ...
These are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1970. That year, 14 acts earned their first number one, such as B. J. Thomas , the Jackson 5 , Shocking Blue , the Guess Who , Ray Stevens , Three Dog Night , the Carpenters , Bread , Edwin Starr , Neil Diamond , the Partridge Family , and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles .
Kasem's "American Top 40" began on July 4, 1970, in Los Angeles, when the No. 1 song was Three Dog Night's cover of Randy Newman's "Mama Told Me Not to Come." The show expanded to hundreds of ...
The 1970s continued a trend toward a proliferation of No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. 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.
Top ten entry date Single Artist(s) Peak Peak date Weeks in top ten Singles from 1969; December 13 "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" B. J. Thomas: 1 January 3 13 December 27 "I Want You Back" The Jackson 5: 1 January 31 9 "Whole Lotta Love" Led Zeppelin: 4 January 31 7 Singles from 1970 January 3 "Venus" Shocking Blue: 1 February 7 9
This is a list of songs that have peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and the magazine's national singles charts that preceded it. Introduced in 1958, the Hot 100 is the pre-eminent singles chart in the United States, currently monitoring the most popular singles in terms of popular radio play, single purchases and online streaming.