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Elton John had three songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1975. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1975. [1] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated December 27, 1975, is based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of November 2, 1974 through November 1, 1975. [1]
During this time, Billboard rival publication Record World was the first to compile a dance chart which incorporated club play on a national level. Noted Billboard statistician Joel Whitburn has since "adopted" Record World chart data from the weeks between March 29, 1975, and August 21, 1976, into Billboards club play history.
The completed Billboard year-end list for 1975 is composed of records that entered the Billboard Hot 100 between November 1974 and December 1975. Records with chart runs that started in 1974 and ended in 1975, or started in 1975 and ended in 1976, made this chart if the majority of their chart weeks were in 1975. If not, they were ranked in the ...
Both 1974 and 1975 hold the Hot 100 record for the year with the most No. 1 hits with 35 songs reaching the No. 1 spot. Additionally, the period beginning January 11 and ending April 12 constitutes the longest run of a different No. 1 song every week (14 weeks) in Billboard history. Coincidentally, it both begins and ends with songs by Elton John.
Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Seventies (ISBN 0-89820-076-8) Additional information obtained can be verified within Billboard's online archive services and print editions of the magazine.
A small fraction of all No. 1 hits have managed to rule the Billboard Hot 100 for double-digit weeks. Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" and Shaboozey's "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" are tied for the all-time record.
From Beyoncé and Taylor Swift to Adele and classics like Etta James and Otis Redding, Insider ranked the best romantic songs across the decades.
List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 1975; List of Billboard Easy Listening number ones of 1975; List of Cash Box Top 100 number-one singles of 1975; List of Dutch Top 40 number-one singles of 1975; List of number-one singles of 1975 (France) List of Hot Country Singles number ones of 1975; List of number-one dance singles of 1975 (U.S.)