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Marvin Gaye had three songs on the Year-End Hot 100. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1969. [1] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated December 27, 1969, is based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of January 4 through December 13, 1969.
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In 1971, Solomon Burke covered the song on Electronic Magnetism; Lonnie Smith included a instrumental version on his 1971 album Mama Wailer. The Jackson 5 covered the song on their debut album, Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5, with it also being the opening song from their first and second tours. It was later released on Goin' Back to Indiana
These are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1969. That year, 8 acts hit number one for the first time, such as Sly & the Family Stone , The 5th Dimension , Billy Preston , Henry Mancini , Zager and Evans , The Archies , Steam , and Peter, Paul and Mary .
"Wonderful World, Beautiful People" was released by Trojan Records on October 24, 1969. [1] The song was composed by Jimmy Cliff and produced by Leslie Kong. The song is about what the world could be. Politicians Harold Wilson and Richard Nixon are mentioned in the song. [2] It was a first hit for the Trojan label.
The song peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 on 20 December 1969. The flip side, "Fortunate Son", reached No. 14 on the United States charts on 22 November 1969, the week before Billboard changed its methodology on double-sided hits. [4] In Canada, the single reached No. 4 in December 1969, [5] and No. 5 in New Zealand. [6]
The song reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the week ending August 16, 1969, [8] and was certified gold by the RIAA on August 18, 1969, for sales of one million singles. [9] " Sweet Caroline" was also the first of Diamond's 58 entries on the US Easy Listening chart, peaking at No. 3.
"Sugar, Sugar" is a song written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim, produced by Barry and recorded by The Archies, a fictional bubblegum pop band from Archie Comics. It was released as the group's third single on the Calendar Records label on May 24, 1969, rereleased on the Kirshner Records label in July 1969, and included on their second album ...