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- Songs In The Key of Life became Motown’s most successful album release of the past 60 years, with 14 weeks at the summit and 18 months on the charts.
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“Please Mr. Postman” by the Marvelettes was Motown Records’ first Number One on the Hot 100, but it was only there for one week. The ten Number One singles listed below spent between 14 and 4 weeks at the top.
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- THE MARVELETTES, “Please Mr. Postman” (Tamla 54046) 11/12/1961 (1) “When Georgia [Dobbins] brought the song to us, we learned the words that she and [William] Garrett had written.
- LITTLE STEVIE WONDER, “Fingertips – Pt. 2” (Tamla 54080) 10/8/1963 (3) “It was through Dr. Bowles that I saw my first play in life. We were performing in Columbus, Ohio, and he took me to see West Side Story.
- MARY WELLS, “My Guy” (Motown 1056) 16/5/1964 (2) “I can look at a lot of things from a woman’s point of view. I grew up with women after all, my mom, my two sisters, my nieces, and I’m a life observer.
- THE SUPREMES, “Where Did Our Love Go” (Motown 1060) 22/8/1964 (2) “When the [Dick Clark] tour began, we were the opening act. The more popular and successful the group, the later on in the evening it appeared, so the name acts were the closers.
Songs In The Key of Life became Motown’s most successful album release of the past 60 years, with 14 weeks at the summit and 18 months on the charts. Meanwhile, Motown queen Diana Ross is represented both as a member of the Supremes – their 1967 two-LP set, Greatest Hits , spent 24 weeks in the Top 10 – and as a solo star, with the ...
- ENDLESS LOVE, Diana Ross & Lionel Richie. Hot 100 peak: 1 (9 weeks, 1981) Chart weeks: 27. Lionel Richie (producer: Lionel Richie)
- I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE, Marvin Gaye. Hot 100 peak: 1 (7 weeks, 1968-69) Chart weeks: 15. Norman Whitfield/Barrett Strong (producer: Norman Whitfield)
- I’LL BE THERE, Jackson 5. Hot 100 peak: 1 (5 weeks, 1970) Chart weeks: 16. Berry Gordy/Bob West/Willie Hutch/Hal Davis (producer: Hal Davis)
- ALL NIGHT LONG (ALL NIGHT), Lionel Richie. Hot 100 peak: 1 (4 weeks, 1983) Chart weeks: 24. Lionel Richie (producers: Lionel Richie/James Anthony Carmichael)
Stevie Wonder’s two triumphs in this Top 10 are both from his third decade of success, but he is also Motown’s all-time R&B chart champ: his records spent a total 67 weeks at the summit during this survey period. His first Number One was 1963’s “Fingertips – Pt. 2,” which reigned for six weeks.
Jun 21, 2022 · Songs released by the Motown Records label or its subsidiaries between 1960 and 1979 were ranked based on a custom scoring wherein a week at No. 1 on the Hot 100 is worth 100 points, a week at No. 2 with 99 points, and so on, up to a week at No. 100 worth one point.
Motown was the most successful soul music label, with a net worth of $61 million. During the 1960s, Motown achieved 79 records in the top-ten of the Billboard Hot 100 between 1960 and 1969.
