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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 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.
Along with disco, funk was one of the most popular genres of music in the 1970s. Primarily an African-American genre, it was characterized by the heavy use of bass and "wah-wah" pedals. Rhythm was emphasized over melody. Artists such as James Brown, The Meters, Parliament-Funkadelic and Sly and the Family Stone pioneered the genre.
See if you know the answers to these easy and hard music trivia questions, spanning different decades (80s and 90s) and genres (pop and rock).
Gladys Knight & the Pips topped the chart with "If I Were Your Woman".. Billboard published a weekly chart in 1971 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 and since 2005 has been published as Hot R&B/Hip-Hop ...
George Harrison became the first post-Beatles solo act to hit #1 with "My Sweet Lord" / "Isn't It a Pity" in 1970 and 1971. 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 ...
This is a list of singles that have peaked in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 during 1971. The Carpenters, Three Dog Night, Donny Osmond, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, and The Partridge Family each had three top-ten hits in 1971, tying them for the most top-ten hits during the year.