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Tony Orlando and Dawn had two songs on the Year-End Hot 100, including "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree", the number one song of 1973. Stevie Wonder had three songs on the Year-End Hot 100. 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 ...
Charlene Marilynn Oliver (née D'Angelo; born June 1, 1950), better known mononymously as Charlene, is an American easy-listening and R&B singer best known for the song "I've Never Been to Me", which, initially being a commercial flop upon its original release in 1977, became a worldwide hit upon a re-release in 1982 and has remained an enduring adult contemporary music staple.
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.
When Love took time off during her pregnancy, Charlene Gibson replaced her, singing lead on the Friends' third hit, "Love or Let Me Be Lonely", which peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 on 2-9 May 1970. The Friends were prolific between 1969 and 1973, releasing six albums, with a seventh in 1976.
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.
List of Billboard Easy Listening number ones of 1973; List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1973; List of Cash Box Top 100 number-one singles of 1973; List of Dutch Top 40 number-one singles of 1973; List of number-one singles of 1973 (France) List of Hot Country Singles number ones of 1973; List of number-one hits of 1973 (Germany)
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 ...
The final number one of the year was "Time in a Bottle" by Jim Croce, which moved into the top spot in the issue of Billboard dated December 30. It was a posthumous chart-topper for the singer, who had died in an airplane crash three months earlier. [5] The song also topped Billboard ' s pop singles chart, the Hot 100. [6]