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Key. ♪ – Number-one single of the year. Contents. ← 1958 to 1969. 1970. 1971. 1972. 1973. 1974. 1975. 1976. 1977. 1978. 1979. 1980s →. 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.
List of Hot R&B Sides number ones of 1960. In 1960, Billboard published the Hot R&B Sides chart ranking the top-performing songs in the United States in rhythm and blues (R&B) 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 ...
Page 1 - 50 51 - 100 >> Based on data taken from Billboard Magazine's R&B/Soul Singles charts. Along with the artists themselves, I've listed three songs apiece that I feel best represent their recorded '60s output.
- Kool & The Gang
- The Temptations
- Commodores
- The Jackson 5
- The Isley Brothers
- Gladys Knight & The Pips
- Earth Wind & Fire
Before their 1980s explosion with R&B-pop hits “Celebrate,” “Get Down on It,” and “Cherish,” Kool & The Gang already hit the R&B chart with this 1970 instrumental self-titled debut and their self-produced 1972 follow-up, Music Is the Message, which reached No. 25 on the R&B chart. By 1973, Kool & The Gang was tapping into more funk with their Wild ...
Throughout he 1960s, The Temptations were already helping define R&B with Motown Records’ hits “My Girl” in 1964 and the 1966 single “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg.” By the 1970s, The Temptations entered the new decade with just the right R&B croon—their No. 1 hit “Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)” and the Norman Whitfield- and Barrett Strong-pe...
By the late 70s, The Commodores were leaving behind some of their biggest hits, including the soulful Lionel Richie-penned “Easy”—later becoming a hit for Faith No More, who covered the song in 1992— the funked up “Brick House” in 1977, the 1978 hits “Three Times a Lady” and “Natural High” and the group’s final single featuring Richie as lead singe...
Before Michael Jackson had a bigger breakthrough with his Quincy Jones-produced Off the Wall in 1979, and wining a Grammy for Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male for “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough,” he and The Jackson 5 were releasing hit albums like the 1970 releases ABC and the follow-up, Third Album, which reached No. 1 on the R&B charts with sing...
Already conquering funk and soul in’60s, by 1973, 3 + 3, gave the Isley Brothers Top 10 R&B-pop hits “That Lady” and their cover of the Seals and Crofts’ “Summer Breeze.” The Isley Brothers continued releasing platinum albums, including Harvest for the World in 1976, Go for Your Guns (1977), and the 1978 release Showdown, with more Top 40, pop, and...
Reaching commercial success after signing to Motown Records in 1966, Gladys Knight & The Pips continued their streak into the 1970s with hits “If I Were Your Woman,” “I Don’t Want to Do Wrong” and the Grammy-winning “Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye).” After moving to Buddha Records, the group continued releasing more soulful...
Masters of mixing soul, funk, jazz, disco, and Afro-pop beats, Earth, Wind & Fire kicked off the 1970s by hitting the Billboard R&B Albums chart with their score for the soundtrack of the 1971 Melvin Van Peebles blaxploitation film, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song. The group’s funkier 1975 hit, “Shining Star,” earned them a Grammy Award for Best ...
I put this list together based on data from the Billboard R&B singles chart. To determine the rankings, I came up with a point system based on a song's peak position and weeks on the chart. NOTE: The R&B charts of the late '50s and early '60s were rather odd in that they contained a number of decidedly non-R&B recordings.
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40 Tracks. Created by TIDAL. In the 1970s, the potentially misleading label “rhythm & blues” was used as a generic term to group the soul, funk and disco styles that characterize the decade. Nondescript as the name may be - covering everyone from Curtis Mayfield and Marvin Gaye, to Prince and Smokey Robinson, to Michael Jackson - it may ...
