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The Carpenters had three songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1971. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 singles of 1971. [1] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated December 25, 1971, is based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of January 2 through November 27, 1971.
The Billboard Year-End chart is a chart published by Billboard which denotes the top song of each year as determined by the publication's charts. Since 1946, Year-End charts have existed for the top songs in pop, R&B, and country, with additional album charts for each genre debuting in 1956, 1966, and 1965, respectively.
The record peaked at number 5 on the Hot 100 in April 1971. [4] [5] [6] On the Cash Box Top 100 chart, which listed sides separately, "Oh Woman, Oh Why" peaked at number 55. [7] The song has been praised for McCartney's impressive range of vocal pitch. [8] Record World called it "an intense raving side literally packed with dynamite." [9]
Was 1971 the best single year for recorded popular music, ever? Or merely the year in which it reached peak cultural significance? Maybe, just maybe, the answer could be: both. You’ll certainly ...
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). #
Brenda Lee also holds the record span between first and most recent No. 1 on the Hot 100 over the longest period of time: 63 years, five months, two weeks, and five days dating to her first week at No. 1 on the chart dated July 18, 1960, with "I'm Sorry" to her most recent No. 1, "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", which was most recently at ...
These are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1971. That year, 16 acts hit number one for the first time, such as Dawn, the Osmonds, Janis Joplin, Honey Cone, Carole King, the Raiders, James Taylor, the Bee Gees, Linda McCartney, Donny Osmond, Rod Stewart, Isaac Hayes, and Melanie. Janis Joplin became the second artist to earn a number ...
It was the first chart-topping album for Hart, who had signed his first recording contract in 1953 and entered the country singles chart for the first time in 1959, but had achieved no significant success until the song "Easy Loving" went to number one in September 1971. He achieved a run of consistent success until 1975, when his chart ...