1 hits from 1974 england
This lists songs that hit number one on the charts in the US during 1974. If a song spent nonconsecutive weeks at number one, the number of weeks for each occurrence at the top is shown in parenthesis. « Number One Songs 1975 » Date Artist - Title Weeks at 1 December 23 1973 – January 5 1974 Jim Croce - Time In A Bottle 2 January 6 – 12 1974 Steve Miller Band - The Joker 1 January 13 – 19 1974 Al Wilson - Show and Tell 1 January 20 – 26 1974 Ringo Starr - You're Sixteen 1 January 27 – February 2 1974 Barbra Streisand - The Way We Were 3 (1) February 3 – 9 1974 Love Unlimited Orchestra - Love's Theme 1 February 10 – 23 1974 Barbra Streisand - The Way We Were 3 (2) February 24 – March 16 1974 Terry Jacks - Seasons In The Sun 3 March 17 – 23 1974 Cher - Dark Lady 1 March 24 – 30 1974 John Denver - Sunshine on My Shoulders 1 March 31 – April 6 1974 Blue Swede - Hooked On A Feeling 1 April 7 – 13 1974 Elton John - Bennie And The Jets 1 April 14 – 27 1974 MFSB - TSOP ( The Sound Of Philadelphia) 2 April 28 – May 11 1974 Grand Funk Railroad - The Loco- Motion 2 May 12 – June 1 1974 Ray Stevens - The Streak 3 June 2 – 8 1974 Paul Mc Cartney - Band on the Run 1 June 9 – 22 1974 Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods - Billy Don't Be A Hero 2 June 23 – 29 1974 Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown 1 June 30 – July 6 1974 Hues Corporation - Rock The Boat 1 July 7 – 20 1974 George Mc Crae - Rock Your Baby 2 July 21 – August 3 1974 John Denver - Annie's Song 2 August 4 – 10 1974 Roberta Flack - Feel Like Makin Love 1 August 11 – 17 1974 Paper Lace - The Night Chicago Died 1 August 18 – September 7 1974 Paul Anka with Odia Coates - ( You're) Having My Baby 3 September 8 – 14 1974 Eric Clapton - I Shot the Sheriff 1 September 15 – 21 1974 Barry White - Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe 1 September 22 – 28 1974 Andy Kim - Rock Me Gently 1 September 29 – October 12 1974 Olivia Newton- John - I.
Number Ones The 1970s Week Ending ACT + Links TITLE Weeks TALLY COMMENT Edison Lighthouse Love Grows ( Where My Rosemary Goes) 5 Only No 1 Studio act with lead singer Tony Burrows. He sang on hits for many other groups. Lee Marvin Wandrin' Star 3 Only No 1 Tough-guy actor who growled this song in his film Paint Your Wagon. imon Mull of Kintyre / Girls' School by Wings in 1977 and You're the One That I Want by John Travolta and Olivia Newton- John in 1978. Thirteen records were released that sold over one-million copies within the decade and Mull of Kintyre also became the first ever single to sell over two-million copies. In doing so it became the best-ever selling single beating the benchmark set by The Beatles' song She Loves You in 1963.[3] Mull of Kintyre was also the biggest selling song of the decade.
Search this site with Google The links above will allow you to discover which songs were number one on any date from. Select the year you want, followed by the month within that year (on the next page) then you will be able to see which songs were number one for each day of that month in the various countries covered. The data shown represents all the information we currently have available, if you want number ones from before 1940, or for different countries we recommend that you follow the source data links yourself. The issues with defining which charts to use, which entries fall into each chart and how to treat double- A side records made us feel that listing number ones was not a worthwhile effort, however the number of users who request such data has convinced us to offer this set of pages. We quite often get requests to find out which song was number one on a particular day. There are a number of obvious comments: Number 1 where? And according to who? We have lists of number one records and their dates from the UK, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, France, Canada, Spain, Japan, Europe and the USA. But they all have limited timeframes and some have other, more complete and official charts that overlap. If you want to examine these lists you should track down the original data This site focuses on consolidating charts from round the world, not on tracking the accidental coincidence of a particular song's popularity on a particular date. We are interested in which songs were number 1 in most places but we don't set out to discover, or track, the day to day movements of songs. For most of our data its hard enough working out the right year As you go back in time the charts are less well defined. The USA has the longest running set of chart data, but even there the Billboard Hot 100 chart started in 1958, before that there were a variety of less formal.