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"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]
Michael Jackson had the highest number of top hits at the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (9 songs). In addition, Jackson remained the longest at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (27 weeks).
As the decade progressed, a growing trend in the music industry was to promote songs to radio without the release of a commercially available singles in an attempt by record companies to boost albums sales. Because such a release was required to chart on the Hot 100, many popular songs that were hits on top 40 radio never made it onto the chart.
The longest gap between No. 1 hits on the Hot 100 for an artist is 63 years, 46 days by Brenda Lee. Her single "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" hit No. 1 on December 9, 2023, her first time on top since "I Want to Be Wanted" on October 24, 1960. [243]
Greatest Hits Live by Earth, Wind & Fire (1996) Greatest Hits by Earth, Wind & Fire (1998) Evolution (1999) and When All Is Said (2006) by Edge of Sanity; Olé ELO, the first compilation album by the Electric Light Orchestra (1976) ELO's Greatest Hits by Electric Light Orchestra (1979) Curtain Call: The Hits by Eminem (2005) Curtain Call 2 by ...
The Best That I Could Do 1978–1988 is the first greatest hits compilation album by American singer-songwriter John Mellencamp, released by Mercury Records in 1997 (see 1997 in music).
Wings Greatest is a compilation album by the British–American rock band Wings, released in the UK on 1 December 1978. [6] It was the band's last release through Capitol in the US. The album is notable as being the first official retrospective release from Paul McCartney's post- Beatles career.
A greatest hits album or best-of album is a type of compilation album that collects popular and commercially successful songs by a particular artist or band. [1] While greatest hits albums are typically supported by the artist, they can also be created by record companies without express approval from the original artist as a means to generate sales. [2]