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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 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]
See chart performance entry "All Day Music" War: July 1971: 35: n/a: 35 (United States) 18 (U.S. Billboard Best Selling Soul Singles) "All I Ever Need Is You" Sonny & Cher: October 1971: 7: 8: 5 (Canada) See chart performance entry "American Pie" Don McLean: October 1971: 1: 2: 1 (Australia, Canada, United States, New Zealand) See chart ...
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 year's final soul number one was "Family Affair" by Sly and the Family Stone, which reached number one in the issue of Billboard dated December 4 and stayed there for the remainder of the year. It also topped the all-genre [12] Hot 100 chart, as did "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)" by the Temptations and Honey Cone's "Want Ads ...
The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history.
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[6] [7] The final chart-topping album of 1971 was Easy Loving by Freddie Hart, which spent the last nine weeks of the year atop the chart. 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 ...