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Gladys Knight & the Pips topped the chart with "If I Were Your Woman".. Billboard published a weekly chart in 1971 ranking the top-performing singles in the United States in soul music and related African American-oriented music genres; the chart has undergone various name changes over the decades to reflect the evolution of such genres and since 2005 has been published as Hot R&B/Hip-Hop ...
The Carpenters had three songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1971. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 singles of 1971. [1] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated December 25, 1971, is based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of January 2 through November 27, 1971.
Brook Benton had his first number one in ten years with "Rainy Night in Georgia". The Moments topped the chart for the first time with "Love on a Two-Way Street". Aretha Franklin had two number ones in 1970. Key. †. Indicates number 1 on Billboard ' s year-end soul chart of 1970 [11] Chart history. Issue date.
Mr. Big Stuff. " Mr. Big Stuff " is a song by American singer Jean Knight. The song was released in 1971 on the Stax label as a single from Knight's debut album of the same title, and became a big hit in the US, reaching No. 2 on Billboard Hot 100. The song was certified double platinum and was the No. 1 Soul Single of the year.
"Want Ads" was released as the first single from Soulful Tapestry in the United States in the spring of 1971 (see 1971 in music). It reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for one week and topped the R&B singles chart for three weeks in the United States, becoming the group's most successful single and their only No.1 placement on the pop charts.
The Dramatics are an American soul music vocal group, formed in Detroit, Michigan, in 1964.They are best known for their 1970s hit songs "In the Rain" and "Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get", both of which were Top 10 Pop hits, [1] as well as their later 1993 collaboration "Doggy Dogg World" with Snoop Dogg, a top 20 hit on the Billboard Rhythmic Top 40.
By 1972, the Delfonics racked up twelve top-20 hits on Billboard ' s R&B/Soul Single Chart. [8] Randy Cain left the group in 1971 after completing their fourth album, [4] and in 1973 had a hand in forming Blue Magic. Cain was replaced by Major Harris; by then, however, Thom Bell had moved on to produce The Stylistics and later, The Spinners. [4]
"Family Affair" is a 1971 number-one hit single recorded by Sly and the Family Stone for the Epic Records label. Their first new material since the double A-sided single "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)"/ "Everybody Is a Star" nearly two years prior, "Family Affair" became the third and final number-one pop single for the band.