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Tanya Tucker had her first chart-topper in 1973 at the age of 14. Hot Country Songs is a record chart that ranks the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. In 1973, 36 different singles topped the chart, at the time published under the title Hot Country Singles, in 52 issues of the magazine.
War had three songs on the Year-End Hot 100. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1973. [1] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated December 29, 1973, is based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of November 25, 1972 through November 17, 1973.
The longest running number one single of 1973 is "Killing Me Softly With His Song" by Roberta Flack which stayed at the top spot for five non-consecutive weeks. That year, 14 acts earned their first number one, such as Carly Simon , Elton John , The O'Jays , Vicki Lawrence , The Edgar Winter Group , Wings , Jim Croce , Maureen McGovern ...
There were a total of 105 singles that were in the Top 10 (97 of those peaked in 1973, four had peaked in late 1972, and four would peak in early 1974). Stevie Wonder, Elton John, The Carpenters, Paul McCartney and Wings, Jim Croce, War, and Al Green each had three top-ten hits in 1973, tying them for the most top-ten hits during the year.
Latin music in the United States is defined by both the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Billboard magazine as any release with 51% or more of its content recorded in Spanish. [1] [2] [a] The best performing Latin songs in the United States have been compiled by Billboard since September 1986.
This is a list of songs that have peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and the magazine's national singles charts that preceded it. Introduced in 1958, the Hot 100 is the pre-eminent singles chart in the United States, currently monitoring the most popular singles in terms of popular radio play, single purchases and online streaming.
Country music becomes a staple of Martin's show for the 1973–1974 season — its last on the air, as it turns out. July 4 — Willie Nelson hosts his first Fourth of July picnic. July 14 — Billboard increases the number of positions for its Hot Country Singles chart to 100 (up from 75), which it would keep until January 1990.
Fred Wesley received the featured credit on "Doing It to Death" by James Brown's regular backing band, the J.B.'s.. Billboard published a weekly chart in 1973 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 ...