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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.
- 1958 to 1969
The Beatles earned the most number-one hits (18 songs) and...
- 1980S
The Billboard Hot 100 is the main song chart of the American...
- I Want You Back
"I Want You Back" is the first national single by the...
- Wings
Paul McCartney and Wings, often billed simply as Wings, were...
- Silly Love Songs
The song includes a build-up of multiple vocal parts sung in...
- Black Water
"Black Water" is a song recorded by the American music group...
- VENUS
Composition and recording Shocking Blue in 1970. The song...
- A Horse With No Name
"A Horse with No Name" is a song by American folk rock trio...
- Everything Is Beautiful
"Everything Is Beautiful" is a song written, composed, and...
- American Woman
American singer-songwriter Lenny Kravitz covered "American...
- 1958 to 1969
Pages in category "1970 songs". The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 848 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . (previous page) ( next page)
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Number ones. The Bee Gees had the highest number of top hits at the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1970s (9 songs). In addition, The Bee Gees also remained the longest at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1970s (27 weeks).
These are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1970. That year, 14 acts earned their first number one, such as B. J. Thomas , the Jackson 5 , Shocking Blue , the Guess Who , Ray Stevens , Three Dog Night , the Carpenters , Bread , Edwin Starr , Neil Diamond , the Partridge Family , and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles .
- Disco, R&B and Urban
- Soft Rock and Pop
- Punk Rock
- Hard Rock, Arena Rock and Heavy Metal
- Progressive Rock
- New Wave
- Blues Rock
- Country
- Other Developments
The Bee Gees were one of, if not the 1970s biggest musical act dominating album sales, singles sales and music charts of many countries including the U.S. and UK. Most notably, they spearheaded and led the disco and pop music scenes of the 1970s at one point they had 5 songs in the top 10 and 3 songs in the top 5 of the U.S. Billboard charts accord...
Some of the more notable pop/soft rock groups during the 1970s were the Carpenters, the Jackson 5, Seals & Crofts, the Bee Gees, the Doobie Brothers, Hall & Oates, Bread, Captain & Tennille, Tony Orlando and Dawn, Bay City Rollers, and the Osmonds. Male soloists who characterized the pop music of the era included Barry Manilow, Andy Gibb, Elvis Pre...
The mid-1970s saw the rise of punk music from its protopunk-garage band roots in the 1960s and early 1970s. The Ramones, Patti Smith, and Blondie were some of the earliest American punk rock acts to make it big in both the United Kingdom and the United States. Punk music has also been heavily associated with a certain punk fashionand absurdist humo...
The 1970s saw the emergence of hard rock as one of the most prominent subgenres of rock music. During the first half of the decade, British acts such as Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Uriah Heep and Black Sabbath were at the height of their international fame, particularly in the United States. By the second half of the decade, many other acts had also...
The American brand of prog rock varied from the eclectic and innovative Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Blood, Sweat and Tears, and Rush, to more pop rock oriented bands like Boston, Foreigner, Journey, Kansas, and Styx. These, beside British bands Supertramp and Electric Light Orchestra, all demonstrated a prog rock influence and while ranking amo...
Successful American new wave bands in the late seventies included Talking Heads, the Cars, the Knack, the B-52's, and Devo. Some of the Canadian new wave groups included Rough Trade, the Payolas, and Martha and the Muffins. After the success of British synthpop acts in the U.S. such as Gary Numan and the Buggles, a number of American bands also beg...
Blues rock remains popular, with Eric Clapton, ZZ Top, and George Thorogood seeing the greatest success. Freddie Kingstarted moving from straight blues to blues rock since the genre was now mostly popular among white audiences. Stress from nonstop touring resulted in his death at the age of 42 in 1976.
A number of styles defined country music during the 1970s decade. At the beginning of the decade, the countrypolitan — an offshoot of the earlier "Nashville Sound" of the late 1950s and early 1960s — and the honky-tonk fused Bakersfield Soundwere some of the more popular styles. The countrypolitan sound — a polished, streamlined sound featuring str...
The decade saw commercial success for blue-eyed soul artists, such as David Bowie who released the successful albums Young Americans (1975), which included the number one hit "Fame", and Station to Station(1976). In the second half of the decade, a 1950s nostalgia movement prompted the Rockabilly Revival fad. The Stray Cats led the revival into the...
Jun 6, 2023 · The 1970s was a fantastic decade for music, with so many different genres setting the charts alight. We may have mourned the demise of The Beatles in 1970, but the decade also brought glam rock, disco, punk, new wave, funk and more. The 100 greatest songs of the 1980s, ranked.
Charnin first approached Meehan to write the book of a musical about Little Orphan Annie in 1972. Meehan researched by rereading prints of the comic strip, but was unable to find any satisfactory material for a musical other than the characters of Annie, Oliver Warbucks, and Sandy, so he decided to write his own story.
