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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.
Sounds of the Seventies was a 40-volume series issued by Time-Life during the late 1980s and early-to-mid 1990s, spotlighting pop music of the 1970s.. Much like Time-Life's other series chronicling popular music, volumes in the "Sounds of the Seventies" series covered a specific time period, including individual years in some volumes, and different parts of the decade (for instance, the early ...
70 "No Time" The Guess Who: 71 "Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)" The Delfonics: 72 "The Wonder of You" Elvis Presley: 73 "Up Around the Bend" Creedence Clearwater Revival: 74 "(If You Let Me Make Love To You Then) Why Can't I Touch You?" Ronnie Dyson: 75 "I Just Can't Help Believing" B.J. Thomas: 76 "It's a Shame" The Spinners: 77 "For the ...
Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music, broadly characterized as classic rock and pop rock, from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as well as for a radio format playing this music.
"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" by Roberta Flack was the number one song of 1972. Al Green had three songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1972.. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1972. [1]
Classic rock is a radio format that developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s. [2] In the United States, it comprises rock music ranging generally from the mid-1960s through the mid-1990s, [3] [a] primarily focusing on commercially successful blues rock and hard rock popularized in the 1970s AOR format. [2]
Debby Boone song "You Light Up My Life" had the most weeks at number one. In an essay published in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau wrote:
The Classic Countdown focused on the 20 biggest hits of the current month from a particular year in the past. The year range during the mid-2010s was 1970-1987. As with American Gold's countdowns of past years, Bartley would announce headlines, pop culture trends (such as styles, popular movies and TV shows, etc.) from that particular month.