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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]
Arguably the biggest rock band of the '70s, the Eagles' two albums from that era—"Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975)" and "Hotel California"—are among the bestselling records of all time.
List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one Position Artist Weeks at No. 1 1 The Jackson 5 10 2 Simon & Garfunkel 6 3 B.J. Thomas 4 The Beatles The Carpenters 6 The Guess Who 3 Edwin Starr Diana Ross The Partridge Family 10 Sly & the Family Stone 2 Ray Stevens Three Dog Night Smokey Robinson & the Miracles 14 Shocking Blue 1 Bread
According to Christgau, the decade also saw greater fragmentation along stylistic lines because of the rise of semipopular music: "It goes back to whenever arty types began to find 'the best' rock worthy of attention in the '60s, but in the '60s tolerance was the rule; it was easier to name rough substyles—say British invasion, folk-rock ...
Few multi-platinum artists of the 1970s feel so distinctly of their time as Ted Nugent.Although cock rock has flourished in many decades, only in the ‘70s could a guy in a loincloth calling ...
Fair Weather (band) Fanny Adams (band) Fatback Band; Figures of Light; The First National Band; A Foot in Coldwater; Formula 4 (band) Fotheringay; Fraternity (band) Frecuencia Mod; Fresh Maggots; Fruko y sus Tesos; Frumpy; Fuchsia (band) Fuzzy Duck (band)
Three of the 100 are in this picture! The Rolling Stones, in 1964, from left to right: Bill Wyman, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Brian Jones. The problem with lists like this is ...