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thumb|right|200px|[[The Jackson 5 scored four #1 hits with "I Want You Back", "ABC", "The Love You Save" and "I'll Be There" in 1970.]]
thumb|right|200px|[[The Carpenters scored their first #1 hit with "(They Long to Be) Close to You" reaching the top spot for four consecutive weeks in 1970.]]
These are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1970.
That year, 14 acts earned their first number one, such as B. J. Thomas, the Jackson 5, Shocking Blue, the Guess Who, Ray Stevens, Three Dog Night, the Carpenters, Bread, Edwin Starr, Neil Diamond, the Partridge Family, and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. Diana Ross and George Harrison, having already hit number one with the Supremes and the Beatles, respectively, hit number one for the first time as solo acts, Ross being the only single female to reach the top of the charts. The Jackson 5 and the Beatles had more than one song hit number one that year, the Jackson 5 having the most with four, while the Beatles had two.
Chart history
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|style="background-color:#FFFF99"|The yellow background indicates the #1 song on Billboards 1970 Year-End Chart of Pop Singles.
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!Issue date
!Song
!Artist(s)
!Reference
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center rowspan=4|227
|January 3
|align="center" rowspan="4"|"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"
|align="center" rowspan="4"|B. J. Thomas
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|January 10
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|January 17
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|January 24
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center|228
|January 31
|align="center"|"I Want You Back"
|align="center"|The Jackson 5
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center|229
|February 7
|align="center"|"Venus"
|align="center"|Shocking Blue
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center rowspan=2|230
|February 14
|align="center" rowspan="2"|"Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" / "Everybody Is a Star"
|align="center" rowspan="2"|Sly & the Family Stone
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|February 21
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center rowspan=6|231
|February 28
|bgcolor=#FFFF99 align="center" rowspan="6"|"Bridge over Troubled Water"
|align="center" rowspan="6"|Simon & Garfunkel
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|March 7
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|March 14
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|March 21
|align="center"|
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|March 28
|align="center"|
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|April 4
|align="center"|
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center rowspan=2|232
|April 11
|align="center" rowspan="2"|"Let It Be"
|align="center" rowspan="2"|The Beatles
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|April 18
|align="center"|
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center rowspan=2|233
|April 25
|align="center" rowspan="2"|"ABC"
|align="center" rowspan="2"|The Jackson 5
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|May 2
|align="center"|
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center rowspan=3|234
|May 9
|align="center" rowspan="3"|"American Woman" / "No Sugar Tonight"
|align="center" rowspan="3"|The Guess Who
|align="center"|
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|May 16
|align="center"|
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|May 23
|align="center"|
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center rowspan=2|235
|May 30
|align="center" rowspan="2"|"Everything Is Beautiful"
|align="center" rowspan="2"|Ray Stevens
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|June 6
|align="center"|
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center rowspan=2|236
|June 13
| rowspan="2" align="center" |"The Long and Winding Road" / "For You Blue"
|align="center" rowspan="2"|The Beatles
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|June 20
|align="center"|
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center rowspan=2|237
|June 27
<!-- Please do not include "I Found That Girl" in this entry per this source (from the print edition of Billboard on this date) @ https://books.google.com/books?id=eikEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA1&pg=PA64#v=onepage&q&f=false ... The song wasn't officially added in the single's entry until the chart dated August 1 (when the single dropped to #6). -->
|align="center" rowspan="2"|"The Love You Save"
|align="center" rowspan="2"|The Jackson 5
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|July 4
|align="center"|
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center rowspan=2|238
|July 11
|align="center" rowspan="2"|"Mama Told Me (Not to Come)"
|align="center" rowspan="2"|Three Dog Night
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|July 18
|align="center"|
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center rowspan=4|239
|July 25
|align="center" rowspan="4"|"(They Long to Be) Close to You"
|align="center" rowspan="4"|The Carpenters
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|August 1
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|August 8
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|August 15
|align="center"|
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center|240
|August 22
|align="center"|"Make It with You"
|align="center"|Bread
|align="center"|
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center rowspan=3|241
|August 29
|align="center" rowspan="3"|"War"
|align="center" rowspan="3"|Edwin Starr
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|September 5
|align="center"|
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|September 12
|align="center"|
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center rowspan=3|242
|September 19
|align="center" rowspan="3"|"Ain't No Mountain High Enough"
|align="center" rowspan="3"|Diana Ross
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|September 26
|align="center"|
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|October 3
|align="center"|
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center|243
|October 10
|align="center"|"Cracklin' Rosie"
|align="center"|Neil Diamond
|align="center"|
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center rowspan=5|244
|October 17
|align="center" rowspan="5"|"I'll Be There"
|align="center" rowspan="5"|The Jackson 5
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|October 24
|align="center"|
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|October 31
|align="center"|
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|November 7
|align="center"|
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|November 14
|align="center"|
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center rowspan=3|245
|November 21
|align="center" rowspan="3"|"I Think I Love You"
|align="center" rowspan="3"|The Partridge Family
|align="center"|
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|November 28
|align="center"|
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|December 5
|align="center"|
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center rowspan=2|246
|December 12
|align="center" rowspan="2"|"The Tears of a Clown"
|align="center" rowspan="2"|Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
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|December 19
|align="center"|
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| bgcolor=#EDEAE0 align=center|247
|December 26
|align="center"|"My Sweet Lord" / "Isn't It a Pity"
|align="center"|George Harrison
|align="center"|
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Number-one artists
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|+ List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one
! Position
! Artist
! Weeks at No. 1
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| 1
| The Jackson 5
| 10
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| 2
| Simon & Garfunkel
| 6
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| rowspan=3| 3
| B.J. Thomas
| rowspan=3| 4
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| The Beatles
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| The Carpenters
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| rowspan=4| 6
| The Guess Who
| rowspan=4| 3
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| Edwin Starr
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| Diana Ross
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| The Partridge Family
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| rowspan=4| 10
| Sly & the Family Stone
| rowspan=4| 2
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| Ray Stevens
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| Three Dog Night
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| Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
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| rowspan=4| 14
| Shocking Blue
| rowspan=4| 1
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| Bread
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| Neil Diamond
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| George Harrison
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See also
- 1970 in music
- List of Cash Box Top 100 number-one singles of 1970
- List of Billboard number-one singles
- List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of the 1970s
Sources
- Fred Bronson's Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, 5th Edition ()
- Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2008, 12 Edition ()
- Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Seventies ()
- Additional information obtained can be verified within Billboard's online archive services and print editions of the magazine.