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The Billboard Hot 100 is the main song chart of the American music industry and is updated every week by the Billboard magazine. During the 1970s the chart was based collectively on each single's weekly physical sales figures and airplay on American radio stations.
With Earth, Wind & Fire's industry influence and presence on the track, sister trio The Emotions was able to create the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper and Grammy-winning song, "Best of My ...
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]
King's album Tapestry became one of the top-selling albums of the decade, and the song "It's Too Late" became one of the 1970s biggest songs. McLean's 1971 song "American Pie", inspired by the death of Buddy Holly, became one of popular music's most-recognized songs of the 20th century, thanks to its abstract and vivid storytelling, which ...
The song, recognized as "the best-selling single of all time", was released before the pop/rock singles-chart era and "was listed as the world's best-selling single in the first-ever Guinness Book of Records (published in 1955) and—remarkably—still retains the title more than 50 years later".
The song initially returned to the charts in 2016 after Bowie's death and for a third time in 2018 after the "Bohemian Rhapsody" film soundtrack bolstered Queen's greatest hits to the top of the ...
The list differs from the 2004 version, with 26 songs added, all of which are songs from the 2000s except "Juicy" by The Notorious B.I.G., released in 1994. The top 25 remained unchanged, but many songs down the list were given different rankings as a result of the inclusion of new songs, causing consecutive shifts among the songs listed in 2004.
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 ...