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This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1977. [1] [2] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated December 24, 1977, is based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of November 6, 1976 through October 29, 1977.
The yellow background indicates the #1 song on Billboard's 1977 Year-End Chart of Pop Singles. An asterisk (*) by a date indicates an unpublished, "frozen" week, due to the special double issues that Billboard published in print at the end of the year for their year-end charts.
The chart, which in 1977 was entitled Easy Listening, has undergone various name changes and has been published under the title Adult Contemporary since 1996. [1] In 1977, 20 songs topped the chart based on playlists submitted by radio stations. [1] The three longest-running chart-toppers of the year were all taken from film soundtracks.
Billboard published a weekly chart in 1977 ranking the top-performing singles in the United States in soul music and related African American-oriented genres; the chart has undergone various name changes over the decades to reflect the evolution of black music and since 2005 has been published as Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. [1] In 1977, it was ...
Hot Country Songs is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. In 1977, 31 different singles topped the chart, which was at the time published under the title Hot Country Singles, based on playlists submitted by country music radio stations and sales reports submitted by ...
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. Elton John amassed the second-most number-one hits on the Hot 100 chart during the 1970s (6 songs). #
1 April 30 8 "Hotel California" Eagles: 1 May 7 8 "I've Got Love on My Mind" Natalie Cole: 5 April 30 6 "Maybe I'm Amazed" Wings: 10 April 2 1 April 9 "So in to You" Atlanta Rhythm Section: 7 April 30 6 April 23 "When I Need You" Leo Sayer: 1 May 14 7 "Right Time of the Night" Jennifer Warnes: 6 May 7 4 April 30 "Sir Duke" Stevie Wonder: 1 May 21 8
The eight weeks which the songs spent at number also made Chic the act with the highest total number of weeks in the top spot during 1977, one week ahead of Village People. The only act with more than one number one during the year was Donna Summer, known as the "Queen of Disco". [5]