Every Billboard #1 Hit of the 1970s - Statistics

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Answer Stats
Date Artist # of Weeks at # 1 Song % Correct
The Jackson 5 2 ABC
75%
Simon & Garfunkel 6 Bridge Over Troubled Water
67%
October 1972 Michael Jackson 1 Ben
66%
America 3 A Horse with No Name
63%
The Jackson 5 1 I Want You Back
63%
January 1972 Don McLean 4 American Pie
61%
April 1970 The Beatles 2 Let It Be
61%
May 1977 Eagles 1 Hotel California
60%
February 1970 Shocking Blue 1 Venus
58%
George Harrison 4 My Sweet Lord / Isn't It a Pity
57%
February 1973 Elton John 3 Crocodile Rock
55%
Barry Manilow 1 Mandy
54%
Stevie Wonder 1 Superstition
54%
The Rolling Stones 1 Angie
52%
January 1971 Tony Orlando & Dawn 3 Knock Three Times
52%
March 1971 Janis Joplin 2 Me and Bobby McGee
52%
Gladys Knight & The Pips 2 Midnight Train to Georgia
51%
Edwin Starr 3 War
51%
Frankie Valli 2 Grease
49%
February 1978 Bee Gees 4 Stayin' Alive
49%
June 1974 Paul McCartney & Wings 1 Band on the Run
48%
August 1976 Elton John & Kiki Dee 4 Don't Go Breaking My Heart
48%
January 1973 Carly Simon 3 You're So Vain
48%
May 1970 The Guess Who 3 American Woman / No Sugar Tonight
46%
April 1977 ABBA 1 Dancing Queen
46%
October 1971 Rod Stewart 5 Maggie May / Reason To Believe
46%
September 1970 Diana Ross 3 Ain't No Mountain High Enough
45%
March 1972 Neil Young 1 Heart of Gold
45%
Carole King 5 It's Too Late / I Feel the Earth Move
45%
January 1976 Bay City Rollers 1 Saturday Night
45%
March 1974 Terry Jacks 3 Seasons in the Sun
45%
Jim Croce 2 Time in a Bottle
45%
Jim Croce 2 Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
43%
Helen Reddy 1 I Am Woman
43%
December 1974 Carl Douglas 2 Kung Fu Fighting
43%
John Denver 2 Annie's Song
42%
Bill Withers 3 Lean On Me
42%
Chuck Berry 2 My Ding-a-Ling
42%
Melanie 3 Brand New Key
40%
Ohio Players 1 Fire
40%
November 1970 The Partridge Family 3 I Think I Love You
40%
Ringo Starr 1 Photograph
40%
September 1975 Glen Campbell 2 Rhinestone Cowboy
40%
James Taylor 1 You've Got a Friend
40%
April 1974 Blue Swede 1 Hooked on a Feeling
39%
LaBelle 1 Lady Marmalade
39%
February 1971 Al Green 1 Let's Stay Together
39%
April 1975 Minnie Riperton 1 Lovin' You
39%
January 1970 B.J Thomas 4 Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
39%
Three Dog Night 6 Joy To The World
37%
December 1971 Sly and the Family Stone 3 Family Affair
37%
September 1973 Marvin Gaye 2 Let's Get It On
37%
June 1970 The Beatles 2 The Long and Winding Road / For You Blue
37%
Ray Stevens 3 The Streak
37%
December 1970 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles 2 The Tears of a Clown
37%
Nilsson 4 Without You
37%
Captain & Tenille 4 Love Will Keep Us Together
36%
May 1971 The Rolling Stones 2 Brown Sugar
36%
Ray Stevens 2 Everything Is Beautiful
36%
The Jackson 5 5 I'll Be There
36%
Average White Band 1 Pick Up the Pieces
36%
July 1974 The Hues Corporation 1 Rock the Boat
36%
Paper Lace 1 The Night Chicago Died
36%
John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John 1 You're the One That I Want
36%
July 1976 Starland Vocal Band 2 Afternoon Delight
34%
February 1974 Barbara Streisand 3 The Way We Were
34%
Harry Chapin 1 Cat's in the Cradle
34%
Billy Swan 2 I Can Help
34%
November 1972 Johnny Nash 4 I Can See Clearly Now
34%
October 1974 Olivia Newton-John 2 I Honestly Love You
34%
September 1974 Eric Claption 1 I Shot the Sheriff
34%
Bee Gees 8 Night Fever
34%
Wild Cherry 3 Play That Funky Music
34%
Gordon Lightfoot 1 Sundown
34%
Isaac Hayes 2 Theme from Shaft
34%
April 1973 Vicki Lawrence 2 The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
34%
August 1972 Looking Glass 1 Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)
33%
Sammy Davis Jr. 3 Candy Man
33%
Rose Royce 1 Car Wash
33%
Cher 1 Dark Lady
33%
February 1975 Neil Sedaka 1 Laughter in the Rain
33%
March 1973 The O'Jays 1 Love Train
33%
Eagles 1 New Kid in Town
33%
Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony 1 The Hustle
33%
Ringo Starr 1 You're Sixteen
33%
The Doobie Brothers 1 Black Water
31%
April 1972 Roberta Flack 6 The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
31%
C.W. McCall 1 Convoy
31%
October 1970 Neil Diamond 1 Cracklin' Rosie
31%
Helen Reddy 1 Delta Dawn
31%
Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots 1 Disco Duck
31%
David Bowie 2 Fame
31%
Barry Manilow 1 I Write the Songs
31%
The Knack 6 My Sharona
31%
The Carpenters 1 Please Mr. Postman
31%
Helen Reddy 1 Angie Baby
30%
March 1975 Eagles 1 Best of My Love
30%
August 1977 The Emotions 5 Best of My Love
30%
Wings 5 Silly Love Songs
30%
October 1973 Cher 2 Half-Breed
30%
March 1979 Gloria Gaynor 3 I Will Survive
30%
Bee Gees 2 Jive Talkin'
30%
January 1975 Elton John 2 Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
30%
July 1970 Three Dog Night 2 Mama Told Me (Not To Come)
30%
Frankie Valli 1 My Eyes Adored You
30%
February 1971 The Osmonds 5 One Bad Apple
30%
Andy Kim 1 Rock Me Gently
30%
Stevie Wonder 3 Sir Duke
30%
July 1972 Niel Diamond 1 Song Sung Blue
30%
August 1973 Maureen McGovern 2 The Morning After
30%
Charlie Rich 2 The Most Beautiful Girl
30%
The Carpenters 4 (They Long to Be) Close To You
30%
Linda Ronstadt 1 You're No Good
30%
Gilbert O'Sullivan 6 Alone Again (Naturally)
28%
Silver Convention 3 Fly, Robin, Fly
28%
June 1972 The Staple Singers 1 I'll Take You There
28%
November 1973 Eddie Kendricks 2 Keep On Truckin
28%
Billy Paul 3 Me and Mrs. Jones
28%
Elton John 2 Philadelphia Freedom
28%
George McCrae 2 Rock Your Baby
28%
January 1974 Steve Miller Band 1 The Joker
28%
May 1974 Grand Funk 2 The Loco-Motion
28%
September 1971 Paul McCartney & Linda McCartney 1 Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey
28%
February 1976 Paul Simon 3 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
27%
Mac Davis 3 Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me
27%
Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods 2 Billy Don't Be a Hero
27%
Andy Gibb 7 Shadow Dancing
27%
Diana Ross 2 Love Hangover
27%
Love Unlimited Orchestra 1 Love's Theme
27%
Billy Preston 1 Nothing from Nothing
27%
May 1972 The Chi-Lites 1 Oh Girl
27%
Dionne Warwick and The Spinners 1 Then Came You
27%
Grand Funk 1 We're an American Band
27%
Bachman-Turner Overdrive 1 You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
27%
September 1972 Three Dog Night 1 Black and White
25%
Stories 2 Brother Louie
25%
The Four Seasons 3 December 1963 (Oh, What a Night)
25%
Blondie 1 Heart of Glass
25%
Chic 6 Le Freak
25%
May 1976 The Bellamy Brothers 1 Let Your Love Flow
25%
KC and the Sunshine Band 2 That's the Way (I Like It)
25%
The Jackson 5 2 The Love You Save
25%
December 1973 The Carpenters 2 Top of the World
25%
Bee Gees 2 Tragedy
25%
MFSB and The Third Degrees 2 TSOP
25%
John Sebastian 1 Welcome Back
25%
July 1973 Billy Preston 2 Will It Go Round in Circles
25%
Debby Boone 10 You Light Up My Life
25%
Paul Anka and Odia Coates 3 (You're) Having My Baby
25%
October 1975 Neil Sedaka 3 Bad Blood
24%
Freddy Fender 1 Before the Next Teardrop Falls
24%
Fleetwood Mac 1 Dreams
24%
Olivia Newton-John 1 Have You Never Been Mellow
24%
Roberta Flack 5 Killing Me Softly with His Song
24%
August 1970 Bread 1 Make It With You
24%
August 1978 The Rolling Stones 1 Miss You
24%
April 1976 Johnnie Taylor 4 Disco Lady
22%
May 1978 Yvonne Elliman 1 If I Can't Have You
22%
Chicago 2 If You Leave Me Now
22%
John Denver 1 I'm Sorry
22%
Al Wilson 1 Show and Tell
22%
Glen Campbell 1 Southern Nights
22%
Rhythm Heritage 1 Theme From S.W.A.T
22%
January 1979 Bee Gees 2 Too Much Heaven
22%
Manfred Mann's Earth Band 1 Blinded by the Light
21%
Barry White 1 Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe
21%
Thelma Houston 1 Don't Leave Me This Way
21%
Hamilton, Joe, Franklin & Reynolds 1 Fallin' in Love
21%
December 1975 The Staple Singers 1 Let's Do It Again
21%
Ohio Players 1 Love Rollercoaster
21%
August 1975 Eagles 1 One of These Nights
21%
America 1 Sister Golden Hair
21%
June 1975 John Denver 1 Thank God I'm a Country Boy
21%
June 1971 The Honey Cone 1 Want Ads
21%
October 1976 Walter Murphy and the Big Apple Band 1 A Fifth of Beethoven
19%
Donny Osmond 3 Go Away Little Girl
19%
May 1975 Tony Orlando and Dawn 3 He Don't Love You (Like I Love You)
19%
December 1977 Bee Gees 3 How Deep Is Your Love
19%
May 1973 Stevie Wonder 1 You Are the Sunshine of My Life
19%
David Soul 1 Don't Give Up on Us
18%
August 1974 Roberta Flack 1 Feel Like Makin' Love
18%
The Edgar Winter Group 1 Frankenstein
18%
August 1971 The Bee Gees 4 How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
18%
Andy Gibb 4 I Just Want to Be Your Everything
18%
The Manhattans 2 Kiss and Say Goodbye
18%
March 1976 The Miracles 1 Love Machine
18%
December 1972 The Temptations 1 Papa Was A Rollin' Stone
18%
Diana Ross 1 Touch Me in the Morning
18%
The Sylvers 1 Boogie Fever
16%
Michael Jackson 1 Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough
16%
George Harrison 1 Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)
16%
November 1971 Cher 2 Gypsys, Tramps, & Thieves
16%
June 1979 Donna Summer 3 Hot Stuff
16%
November 1975 Elton John 3 Island Girl
16%
Earth, Wind & Fire 1 Shining Star
16%
December 1978 Barbara Streisand and Neil Diamond 2 You Don't Bring Me Flowers
16%
Tony Orlando & Dawn 4 Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree
15%
KC and the Sunshine Band 1 Get Down Tonight
15%
July 1975 Paul McCartney & Wings 1 Listen to What the Man Said
15%
November 1979 M 1 Pop Muzik
15%
Daryl Hall and John Oates 2 Rich Girl
15%
Anita Ward 2 Ring My Bell
15%
February 1977 Mary MacGregor 2 Torn Between Two Lovers
15%
Leo Sayer 1 You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
15%
Elton John 1 Bennie and the Jets
13%
Rupert Holmes 3 Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
13%
Exile 4 Kiss You All Over
13%
Amii Stewart 1 Knock on Wood
13%
June 1973 Paul McCartney & Wings 4 My Love
13%
May 1979 Peaches & Herb 4 Reunited
13%
December 1979 Styx 2 Babe
12%
October 1977 Meco 2 Star Wars Theme / Cantina Band
12%
April 1979 The Doobie Brothers 1 What a Fool Believes
12%
September 1978 A Taste of Honey 3 Boogie Oogie Oogie
10%
October 1978 Nick Gilder 1 Hot Child in the City
10%
October 1979 Robert John 1 Sad Eyes
10%
Commodores 1 Still
10%
June 1978 Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams 1 Too Much, Too Little, Too Late
10%
November 1974 Stevie Wonder 1 You Haven't Done Nothin'
10%
September 1976 Bee Gees 1 You Should Be Dancing
10%
January 1978 Player 3 Baby Come Back
9%
August 1979 Chic 1 Good Times
9%
June 1977 KC and The Sunshine Band 1 I'm Your Boogie Man
9%
Donna Summer 3 MacArthur Park
9%
Herb Alpert 2 Rise
9%
Alan O'Day 1 Undercover Angel
9%
Eagles 1 Heartache Tonight
7%
Stevie Wonder 1 I Wish
7%
Commodores 2 Three Times a Lady
7%
John Lennon 1 Whatever Gets You Thru the Night
7%
November 1978 Anne Murray 1 You Needed Me
7%
February 1979 Rod Stewart 4 Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?
6%
B.J. Thomas 1 (Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song
6%
Barbara Streisand and Donna Summer 2 No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)
6%
Leo Sayer 1 When I Need You
6%
Wings 2 With a Little Luck
6%
July 1979 Donna Summer 5 Bad Girls
4%
John Denver 1 Sunshine on My Shoulders
4%
Diana Ross 1 Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)
4%
January 1977 Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr. 1 You Don't Have to Be a Star (To Be in my Show)
4%
Rod Stewart 6 Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)
3%
Shaun Cassidy 1 Da Doo Ron Ron
3%
July 1971 Paul Revere & the Raiders 1 Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian)
3%
April 1971 The Temptations 2 Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)
3%
Barry Manilow 1 Looks Like We Made It
3%
November 1976 Steve Miller Band 1 Rock'n Me
3%
Sly & The Family Stone 2 Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again / Everybody Is A Star)
3%
July 1977 Bill Conti 1 Gonna Fly Now (Theme From Rocky)
1%
March 1978 Andy Gibb 2 (Love Is) Thicker Than Water
1%
March 1977 Barbara Streisand 3 Love Theme From A Star Is Born (Evergreen)
1%
Bee Gees 1 Love You Inside Out
1%
KC and The Sunshine Band 1 (Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty
1%
Marvin Gaye 1 Got to Give It Up (Part 1)
0%
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