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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]
Between 1970 and 1979, fourteen different singles sold more than one million copies each in the UK. The biggest-selling single of the decade was "Mull of Kintyre" by the British band Wings. Released in November 1977, the song became Christmas number one and the first single ever to sell more than two million copies in the UK. [5]
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.
In 1970, it was published under the title Best Selling Soul Singles, [2] and 17 different singles topped the chart. In the issue of Billboard dated January 3, Diana Ross & the Supremes were at number one with " Someday We'll Be Together ", the song's fourth and final week in the top spot. [ 3 ]
The song, recognized as "the best-selling single of all time", was released before the pop/rock singles-chart era and "was listed as the world's best-selling single in the first-ever Guinness Book of Records (published in 1955) and—remarkably—still retains the title more than 50 years later".
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 .
Ray Dorset (pictured in 2016) and his band Mungo Jerry had the best-selling single of 1970 with "In the Summertime", which spent seven weeks at number-one. Elvis Presley secured four top 10 singles this year, including "The Wonder of You", which topped the chart for six weeks and became the second best selling single of the year.