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John Denver was the only act to have more than one song reach number one, with two. 1974 is tied with 1975 for scoring the most Hot 100 number ones, 35 each. The year would have more number ones than 1975, at 36, if including " Time in a Bottle " by Jim Croce , which initially topped the Hot 100 on December 29, 1973, and stayed atop the chart ...
"The Way We Were" by Barbra Streisand was the number one song of 1974.. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 singles of 1974. [1] The Top 100, as revealed in the Talent In Action section of Billboard dated December 28, 1974, is based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of November 24, 1973, through October 26, 1974.
"Annie's Song" John Denver: 1 July 27 7 July 6 "On and On" Gladys Knight & the Pips: 5 July 13 3 "You Won't See Me" Anne Murray: 8 July 13 3 July 13 "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" Elton John: 2 July 27 5 "Rock and Roll Heaven" The Righteous Brothers: 3 July 20 4 "The Air That I Breathe" The Hollies: 6 August 3 4 July 20 "Rikki Don't Lose ...
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. Rod Stewart remained at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 17 weeks during the 1970s. Elton John amassed the second-most number-one hits on the Hot 100 chart during the 1970s (6 songs). #
This is a list of songs that have peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and the magazine's national singles charts that preceded it. Introduced in 1958, the Hot 100 is the pre-eminent singles chart in the United States, currently monitoring the most popular singles in terms of popular radio play, single purchases and online streaming.
Bobby Bare had his only number one single in 1974. Hot Country Songs is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. In 1974, 41 different singles topped the chart, which at the time was published under the title Hot Country Singles, in 52 issues of the magazine, based on ...
Roberta Flack spent five weeks at number one with "Feel Like Makin' Love", which Billboard ranked as the best-performing soul single of the year. Gladys Knight & the Pips (Knight pictured) had three number ones in 1974. "Rock Your Baby" by George McCrae (pictured in later life) topped both the soul chart and the all-genre Hot 100 listing.
The Billboard Year-End chart is a chart published by Billboard which denotes the top song of each year as determined by the publication's charts. Since 1946, Year-End charts have existed for the top songs in pop, R&B, and country, with additional album charts for each genre debuting in 1956, 1966, and 1965, respectively.