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Year-by-year retrospectives from 1970 through 1979.

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Bar chart of 70s number one hits by weeks at number one: Bee Gees 27, Rod Stewart 17, Andy Gibb 13, Roberta Flack 12, Donna Summer 11
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70s Number One Hits: Every Billboard #1, 1970 to 1979

All 253 70s number one hits on the Billboard Hot 100, from Raindrops to Escape. Sort by weeks at #1, see who ruled the decade, and play each one.

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Bar chart of 70s one hit wonders by year: 1970 had 22, the most of any year in the decade, and 1977 had the fewest with 8
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70s One Hit Wonders: 147 Verified, One Chart Hit Each

147 real 70s one hit wonders, verified against this site's own Billboard data and each act's full career chart history. Sortable, with plays.

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The Bee Gees performing on NBC's The Midnight Special in 1973, six years before Tragedy became their fifth Hot 100 number one of the disco era
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Tragedy Bee Gees: The 1979 Original Behind Steps' Cover

Tragedy Bee Gees blended disco with a country chord change in 1979, then Steps sent it back to number one in 1998 with an even bigger seller.

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The Bee Gees in the late 1970s, around the time Too Much Heaven spent two weeks at number one and raised millions of dollars for UNICEF
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Too Much Heaven: The Bee Gees Ballad That Bumped Le Freak

Too Much Heaven knocked Le Freak off number one twice in January 1979, and the Bee Gees gave every dollar of it to UNICEF. Here's the real story.

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The Bee Gees pictured in 1977, the year they released How Deep Is Your Love as the first Saturday Night Fever single to reach number one
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How Deep Is Your Love: The Bee Gees Ballad Almost Given Away

How Deep Is Your Love was written for Yvonne Elliman, not the Bee Gees themselves. See the real chart run, the Grammy win and the 1983 lawsuit.

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Stevie Wonder recording in the studio in 1973, the year he wrote and recorded Living for the City for the Innervisions album
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Living for the City: Stevie Wonder's Grammy-Winning Hit

Living for the City hit #8, not #45. See Stevie Wonder's real chart peak, the Grammy it won, and the voices behind its spoken-word story.

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The Eagles in a 1974 Asylum Records press photo, five years before the band recorded Heartache Tonight for The Long Run
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Heartache Tonight: The Eagles' Last Trip to Number One

Heartache Tonight gave the Eagles their fifth and final Billboard #1. See how a phone call with Bob Seger built the chorus in minutes.

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Donna Summer in the recording studio in 1977, a year before her MacArthur Park cover reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100
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MacArthur Park Donna Summer: Her First Number One Hit

MacArthur Park Donna Summer turned a 1968 Jimmy Webb ballad into a 17-minute disco suite, and her real first Hot 100 number one, not her third.

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The Bee Gees performing on stage in the mid-1970s, a few years before Night Fever became the biggest single of 1978
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Night Fever: The Bee Gees Song That Renamed a Movie

Night Fever gave Saturday Night Fever its own title. The Bee Gees song spent eight weeks at #1 on the Hot 100 and won a Grammy along the way.

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