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Singles are a type of music release that typically have fewer tracks than an extended play or an album. Throughout the 1970s the UK Singles Chart was compiled by the British Market Research Bureau (BMRB) [1] from the sales data of a representative panel of record shops across the country, starting with about 250 shops at the beginning of the decade and increasing to around 450 stores by 1979.
John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, who had two number-one singles in 1978 and occupied the top spot for over a quarter of the year. ABBA, who had 7 number-one singles in the 1970s, the most of any musical act during the decade. Rod Stewart, who had 5 number-one singles in the 1970s. Former Beatles member George Harrison had the best-selling ...
Chicago, Deep Purple, Hot Chocolate, The Jackson 5 and Neil Diamond were among the many artists who achieved their first UK charting top 10 single in 1970. The 1969 Christmas number-one, "Two Little Boys" by Rolf Harris, remained at number-one for the first four weeks of 1970. The first new number-one single of the year was "Love Grows (Where ...
Many of these Jamaican-influenced UK bands (such as UB40) adopted pop styles to appeal to mainstream audiences, but some UK reggae bands (such as Steel Pulse) played songs with more confrontational socio-political lyrics. [47] The 1970s also saw the rise of dub poetry, exemplified by Linton Kwesi Johnson, Sister Netifa and Benjamin Zephaniah.
The biggest-selling album of the 1970s in the UK was Bridge over Troubled Water by American duo Simon & Garfunkel. Released on 6 February 1970, [3] it spent a total of 33 weeks at number one, and was the best-selling album of both 1970 and 1971. Originally it was credited with 41 weeks at number one, [4] but this figure includes eight weeks in ...
Number-one singles. Paul McCartney (performing with wife Linda in 1976) had two NME number ones in the 1970s – one solo, one with his band Wings – that did not make the top of the Official Charts. The only chart on which the Sex Pistols ' infamous "God Save the Queen" made number one was NME. The song did not reach number one on the BMRB ...
Best-selling singles (covering 17 Jan to 19 December 1970) "In the Summertime" – Mungo Jerry. "The Wonder of You" – Elvis Presley. "Band of Gold" – Freda Payne. "Spirit in the Sky" – Norman Greenbaum. "Bridge Over Troubled Water" – Simon and Garfunkel. "Back Home" – England World Cup Squad. "All Right Now" – Free.
Elvis Presley performed the best-selling song in three years (1958, 1960, 1961). This is a list of the best-selling singles on the UK Singles Chart for each year. Note that the Number sold section denotes the number sold within the year, not in total, as very often the single continues to sell more in later years (and sometimes other singles released within a particular year will go on to ...
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