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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.
November 15 7 "They Just Can't Stop It (Games People Play)" The Spinners: 5 October 25 4 "Feelings" Morris Albert: 6 October 25 6 October 25 "Island Girl" Elton John: 1 November 1 7 "It Only Takes a Minute" Tavares: 10 October 25 1 November 1 "Heat Wave" Linda Ronstadt: 5 November 15 3 "This Will Be" Natalie Cole: 6 November 22 5 November 8
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. For the sake of continuity, Record World national charts are incorporated into the 1975 and 1976 lists. [ 1 ]
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.
November 6 – The Sex Pistols play their first concert at St. Martin's School of Art in London. November 10 – Lev Leshchenko revives "Den Pobedy", one of the most popular World War II songs in the Soviet Union. November 21 – Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" goes to number one in the U.K., where it remains for five weeks of 1975 and four weeks ...
Another accolade of a successful song was a position on the "Honor Roll of Hits", introduced on March 24, 1945, initially as a 10-song list, [11] later expanded to 30 songs, which ranked the most popular songs by combining record and sheet sales, disk jockey, and jukebox performances as determined by Billboard's weekly nationwide survey. [12]
These are the Billboard magazine Hot Dance Club Play number one hits of 1975.. Note: Billboard magazine's dance/disco chart, which began in 1974 and ranked the popularity of tracks in New York City discothèques, expanded to feature multiple charts each week which highlighted playlists in various cities such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, Boston, Phoenix, Detroit and Houston.
During November and December beginning some time in the 2010s, these songs have regularly appeared on the Hot 100, generally departing from the chart once the holiday season ends in January. More recently, they have reached into the top ten, and in 2019, for only the second time ever on the Hot 100 (the first since 1958), made it to number one.