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The Jackson 5 reached number one for the first time in January and by the end of the year had accumulated four chart-toppers.. Billboard published a weekly chart in 1970 ranking the top-performing singles in the United States in soul music and related African American-oriented music genres; the chart has undergone various name changes over the decades to reflect the evolution of such genres ...
September 12 September 19 September 26: Diana Ross: Diana Ross: October 3 October 10: Third Album: The Jackson 5 October 17 October 24 October 31 November 7 November 14 November 21 November 28 December 5 December 12 December 19: Greatest Hits: Sly and the Family Stone: December 26...To Be Continued: Isaac Hayes
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). #
Flack's "Feel Like Makin' Love" topped the chart for five consecutive weeks, the year's longest unbroken run at number one, and was ranked by Billboard as the year's best-performing soul single. [4] Two of 1974's Hot Soul Singles number ones showcased the emerging disco genre, which would go on to dominate American popular music in the latter ...
Barry White spent five weeks at number one with "It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next to Me".. Billboard published a weekly chart in 1977 ranking the top-performing singles in the United States in soul music and related African American-oriented genres; the chart has undergone various name changes over the decades to reflect the evolution of black music and since 2005 has been published as Hot ...
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 Pointer Sisters gained their first number one with "How Long (Betcha' Got a Chick on the Side)".. Billboard published a weekly chart in 1975 ranking the top-performing singles in the United States in soul music and related African American-oriented genres; the chart has undergone various name changes over the decades to reflect the evolution of black music and since 2005 has been published ...
The song was covered by John Williams for Steven Spielberg's 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Spielberg himself called Williams's work "When You Wish Upon a Star meets science fiction". [citation needed] The song was covered by Kiss bassist Gene Simmons on his self-titled 1978 solo album. "It spoke to me," he declared.