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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). #
These are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1970. That year, 14 acts earned their first number one, such as B. J. Thomas , the Jackson 5 , Shocking Blue , the Guess Who , Ray Stevens , Three Dog Night , the Carpenters , Bread , Edwin Starr , Neil Diamond , the Partridge Family , and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles .
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]
The artists of the 1970s produced so many chart-topping hits we compiled a list. ... Breaking records as the first song by an all-Native American and Mexican-American band to enter the Billboard ...
The 1970s continued a trend toward a proliferation of No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. In 1970, there were 23 songs that reached the top spot on the chart, but by the mid-1970s, more than 40 titles rotated in and out of the top spot for the first time in history.
Billboard Decade-End is a series of music charts reflecting the most popular artists, albums, and songs in the United States throughout a decade. [1] Billboard first published their first decade-end rankings in December 1970, listing the artists with the most number ones of the 1960s.
In 1975, the Isley Brothers released their 13th album, "The Heat Is On," which became their first album to top the Billboard 200 chart (they didn't record another #1 album until 2003's "Body Kiss").
Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Sixties (ISBN 0-89820-074-1) Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Seventies (ISBN 0-89820-076-8) Additional information obtained can be verified within Billboard's online archive services and print editions of the magazine.