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This is a list of the number one singles on the UK Singles Chart, during the 1970s. The source for this decade is the Record Retailer/Music Week chart (Record Retailer was renamed Music Week).

Continued from List of number-one singles from the 1960s

Contents 1 1970 2 1971 3 1972 4 1973 5 1974 6 1975 7 1976 8 1977 9 1978 10 1979 11 See also

1970

1 Edison Lighthouse - "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)"

1. January 31 for 5 weeks

2 Lee Marvin - "Wand'rin' Star"

1. March 7 for 3 weeks

3 Simon and Garfunkel - "Bridge Over Troubled Water"

1. March 28 for 3 weeks

4 Dana - "All Kinds of Everything"

1. April 18 for 2 weeks

5 Norman Greenbaum - "Spirit in the Sky"

1. May 2 for 2 weeks

6 England World Cup Squad - "Back Home"

1. May 16 for 3 weeks

7 Christie - "Yellow River"

1. June 6 for 1 week

8 Mungo Jerry - "In the Summertime"

1. June 13 for 7 weeks

9 Elvis Presley - "The Wonder of You (Live)"

1. August 1 for 6 weeks

10 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - "The Tears of a Clown"

1. September 12 for 1 week

11 Freda Payne - "Band of Gold"

1. September 19 for 6 weeks

12 Matthews Southern Comfort - "Woodstock"

1. October 31 for 3 weeks

13 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - "Voodoo Child"

1. November 21 for 1 week

14 Dave Edmunds - "I Hear You Knocking"

1. November 28 for 6 weeks

1971

2 Clive Dunn - "Grandad"

1. January 2 for 3 weeks

3 George Harrison - "My Sweet Lord"

1. January 30 for 5 weeks

4 Mungo Jerry - "Baby Jump"

1. March 6 for 2 weeks

5 T. Rex - "Hot Love"

1. March 20 for 6 weeks

6 Dave and Ansil Collins - "Double Barrel"

1. May 1 for 2 weeks

7 Dawn - "Knock Three Times"

1. May 15 for 5 weeks

8 Middle of the Road - "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep"

1. June 19 for 5 weeks

9 T. Rex - "Get It On"

1. July 24 for 4 weeks

10 Diana Ross - "I'm Still Waiting"

1. August 21 for 4 weeks

11 Tams - "Hey Girl Don't Bother Me"

1. September 18 for 3 weeks

12 Rod Stewart - "Maggie May" (actually the B-side; A-side was "Reason to Believe")

1. October 9 for 5 weeks

13 Slade - "Coz I Luv You"

1. November 13 for 4 weeks

14 Benny Hill - "Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West)"

1. December 11 for 4 weeks

1972

1 The New Seekers - "I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing (In Perfect Harmony)"

1. January 8 for 4 weeks

2 T. Rex - "Telegram Sam"

1. February 5 for 2 weeks

3 Chicory Tip - "Son of My Father"

1. February 19 for 3 weeks

4 Harry Nilsson - "Without You"

1. March 11 for 5 weeks

5 The Pipes & Drums & Military Band of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards - "Amazing Grace"

1. April 15 for 5 weeks

6 T. Rex - "Metal Guru"

1. May 20 for 4 weeks

7 Don McLean - "Vincent"

1. June 17 for 2 weeks

8 Slade - "Take Me Bak 'Ome"

1. July 1 for 1 week

9 Donny Osmond - "Puppy Love"

1. July 8 for 5 weeks

10 Alice Cooper - "School's Out!"

1. August 12 for 3 weeks

11 Rod Stewart - "You Wear It Well"

1. September 2 for 1 week

12 Slade - "Mama Weer All Crazee Now"

1. September 9 for 3 weeks

13 David Cassidy - "How Can I Be Sure"

1. September 30 for 2 weeks

14 Lieutenant Pigeon - "Mouldy Old Dough"

1. October 14 for 4 weeks

15 Gilbert O'Sullivan - "Clair"

1. November 11 for 2 weeks

16 Chuck Berry - "My Ding-a-Ling"

1. November 25 for 4 weeks

17 Little Jimmy Osmond - "Long Haired Lover from Liverpool"

1. December 23 for 5 weeks

1973

1 The Sweet - "Blockbuster!"

1. January 27 for 5 weeks

2 Slade - "Cum on Feel the Noize"

1. March 3 for 4 weeks

3 Donny Osmond - "The Twelfth of Never"

1. March 31 for 1 week

4 Gilbert O'Sullivan - "Get Down"

1. April 7 for 2 weeks

5 Dawn featuring Tony Orlando - "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree"

1. April 21 for 4 weeks

6 Wizzard - "See My Baby Jive"

1. May 19 for 4 weeks

7 Suzi Quatro - "Can the Can"

1. June 16 for 1 week

8 10cc - "Rubber Bullets"

1. June 23 for 1 week

9 Slade - "Skweeze Me Pleeze Me"

1. June 30 for 3 weeks

10 Peters and Lee - "Welcome Home"

1. July 21 for 1 week

11 Gary Glitter - "I'm the Leader of the Gang (I Am)"

1. July 28 for 4 weeks

12 Donny Osmond - "Young love"

1. August 25 for 4 weeks

13 Wizzard - "Angel Fingers"

1. September 22 for 1 week

14 Simon Park Orchestra - "Eye Level (Theme From The Thames TV Series "Van Der Valk")"

1. September 29 for 4 weeks

15 David Cassidy - "Daydreamer"/"The Puppy Song"

1. October 27 for 3 weeks

16 Gary Glitter - "I Love You Love Me Love"

1. November 17 for 4 weeks

17 Slade - "Merry Xmas Everybody"

1. December 15 for 5 weeks

1974

1 The New Seekers - "You Won't Find Another Fool Like Me"

1. January 19 for 1 week

2 Mud - "Tiger Feet"

1. January 26 for 4 weeks

3 Suzi Quatro - "Devil Gate Drive"

1. February 23 for 2 weeks

4 Alvin Stardust - "Jealous Mind"

1. March 9 for 1 week

5 Paper Lace - "Billy Don't Be a Hero"

1. March 16 for 3 weeks

6 Terry Jacks - "Seasons in the Sun"

1. April 6 for 4 weeks

7 ABBA - "Waterloo"

1. May 4 for 2 weeks

8 The Rubettes - "Sugar Baby Love"

1. May 18 for 4 weeks.

9 Ray Stevens - "The Streak"

1. June 15 for 1 week

10 Gary Glitter - "Always Yours"

1. June 22 for 1 week

11 Charles Aznavour - "She"

1. June 29 for 4 weeks

12 George McCrae - "Rock Your Baby"

1. July 27 for 3 weeks

13 The Three Degrees - "When Will I See You Again"

1. August 17 for 2 weeks

14 The Osmonds - "Love Me For A Reason"

1. August 31 for 3 weeks

15 Carl Douglas - "Kung Fu Fighting"

1. September 21 for 3 weeks

16 John Denver - "Annie's Song"

1. October 12 for 1 week

17 Sweet Sensation - "Sad Sweet Dreamer"

1. October 19 for 1 week

18 Ken Boothe - "Everything I Own"

1. October 26 for 3 weeks

19 David Essex - "Gonna Make You a Star"

1. November 16 for 3 weeks

20 Barry White - "You're the First, the Last, My Everything"

1. December 7 for 2 weeks

21 Mud - "Lonely This Christmas"

1. December 21 for 4 weeks

1975

1 Status Quo - "Down Down"

1. January 18 for 1 week

2 The Tymes - "Ms Grace"

1. January 25 for 1 week

3 Pilot - "January"

1. February 1 for 3 weeks

4 Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)"

1. February 22 for 2 weeks

5 Telly Savalas - "If"

1. March 8 for 2 weeks

6 Bay City Rollers - "Bye Bye Baby"

1. March 22 for 6 weeks

7 Mud - "Oh Boy"

1. May 3 for 2 weeks

8 Tammy Wynette - "Stand by Your Man"

1. May 17 for 3 weeks

9 Windsor Davies & Don Estelle - "Whispering Grass"

1. June 7 for 3 weeks

10 10cc - "I'm Not in Love"

1. June 28 for 2 weeks

11 Johnny Nash - "Tears on My Pillow"

1. July 12 for 1 week

12 Bay City Rollers - "Give a Little Love"

1. July 19 for 3 weeks

13 Typically Tropical - "Barbados"

1. August 9 for 1 week

14 The Stylistics - "Can't Give You Anything (But My Love)"

1. August 16 for 3 weeks

15 Rod Stewart - "Sailing"

1. September 6 for 4 weeks

16 David Essex - "Hold Me Close"

1. October 4 for 3 weeks

17 Art Garfunkel - "I Only Have Eyes for You"

1. October 25 for 2 weeks

18 David Bowie - "Space Oddity"

1. November 8 for 2 weeks

19 Billy Connolly - "D.I.V.O.R.C.E."

1. November 22 for 1 week

20 Queen - "Bohemian Rhapsody"

1. November 29 for 9 weeks

1976

1 ABBA - "Mamma Mia"

1. January 31 for 2 weeks

2 Slik - "Forever and Ever"

1. February 14 for 1 week

3 The Four Seasons - "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)"

1. February 21 for 2 weeks

4 Tina Charles - "I Love To Love (But My Baby Loves To Dance)"

1. March 6 for 3 weeks

5 Brotherhood of Man - "Save Your Kisses for Me"

1. March 27 for 6 weeks

6 ABBA - "Fernando"

1. May 8 for 4 weeks

7 J.J. Barrie - "No Charge"

1. June 5 for 1 week

8 The Wurzels - "The Combine Harvester (Brand New Key)"

1. June 12 for 2 weeks

9 The Real Thing - "You to me are Everything"

1. June 26 for 3 weeks

10 Demis Roussos - "The Roussos Phenomenon EP"

1. July 17 for 1 week

11 Elton John & Kiki Dee - "Don't Go Breaking My Heart"

1. July 24 for 6 weeks

12 ABBA - "Dancing Queen"

1. September 4 for 6 weeks

13 Pussycat - "Mississippi"

1. October 11 for 4 weeks

14 Chicago - "If You Leave Me Now"

1. November 13 for 3 weeks

15 Showaddywaddy - "Under the Moon of Love"

1. December 4 for 3 weeks

16 Johnny Mathis - "When a Child Is Born (Soleado)"

1. December 25 for 3 weeks

1977

1 David Soul - "Don't Give Up on Us"

1. January 15 for 4 weeks

2 Julie Covington - "Don't Cry for Me Argentina"

1. February 12 for 1 week

3 Leo Sayer - "When I Need You"

1. February 19 for 3 weeks

4 The Manhattan Transfer - "Chanson D'Amour"

1. March 12 for 3 weeks

5 ABBA - "Knowing Me, Knowing You"

1. April 2 for 5 weeks

6 Deniece Williams - "Free"

1. May 7 for 2 weeks

7 Rod Stewart - "I Don't Want to Talk About It /The First Cut is the Deepest"

1. May 21 for 4 weeks

8 Kenny Rogers - "Lucille"

1. June 18 for 1 week

9 The Jacksons - "Show You the Way to Go"

1. June 25 for 1 week

10 Hot Chocolate - "So You Win Again"

1. July 2 for 3 weeks

11 Donna Summer - "I Feel Love"

1. July 23 for 4 weeks

12 Brotherhood of Man - "Angelo"

1. August 20 for 1 week

13 The Floaters - "Float On"

1. August 27 for 1 week

14 Elvis Presley - "Way Down"

1. September 3 for 5 weeks

15 David Soul - "Silver Lady"

1. October 8 for 3 weeks

16 Baccara - "Yes Sir, I Can Boogie"

1. October 29 for 1 week

17 ABBA - "The Name Of The Game"

1. November 5 for 4 weeks

18 Wings - "Mull of Kintyre / Girls' School"

1. December 3 for 9 weeks

1978

1 Althia & Donna - "Uptown Top Ranking"

1. February 4 for 1 week

2 Brotherhood of Man - "Figaro"

1. February 11 for 1 week

3 ABBA - "Take A Chance On Me"

1. February 18 for 3 weeks

4 Kate Bush - "Wuthering Heights"

1. March 11 for 4 weeks

5 Brian and Michael - "Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs (Lowry's Song)"

1. April 8 for 3 weeks

6 The Bee Gees - "Night Fever"

1. April 29 for 2 weeks

7 Boney M - "Rivers of Babylon"

1. May 13 for 5 weeks

8 John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John - "You're the One That I Want"

1. June 17 for 9 weeks

9 The Commodores - "Three Times A Lady"

1. August 19 for 5 weeks

10 10cc - "Dreadlock Holiday"

1. September 23 for 1 week

11 John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John - "Summer Nights"

1. September 30 for 7 weeks

12 The Boomtown Rats - "Rat Trap"

1. November 18 for 2 weeks

13 Rod Stewart - "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?"

1. December 2 for 1 week

14 Boney M - "Mary's Boy Child / Oh My Lord"

1. December 9 for 4 weeks

1979

1 The Village People - "Y.M.C.A."

1. January 6 for 3 weeks

2 Ian Dury & The Blockheads - "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick"

1. January 27 for 1 week

3 Blondie - "Heart of Glass"

1. February 3 for 4 weeks

4 The Bee Gees - "Tragedy"

1. March 3 for 2 weeks

5 Gloria Gaynor - "I Will Survive"

1. March 17 for 4 weeks

6 Art Garfunkel - "Bright Eyes"

1. April 14 for 6 weeks

7 Blondie - "Sunday Girl"

1. May 26 for 3 weeks

8 Anita Ward - "Ring My Bell"

1. June 16 for 2 weeks

9 Tubeway Army - "Are "Friends" Electric?"

1. June 30 for 4 weeks

10 The Boomtown Rats - "I Don't Like Mondays"

1. July 28 for 4 weeks

11 Cliff Richard - "We Don't Talk Anymore"

1. August 25 for 4 weeks

12 Gary Numan - "Cars"

1. September 22 for 1 week

13 The Police - "Message In A Bottle"

1. September 29 for 3 weeks

14 The Buggles - "Video Killed the Radio Star"

1. October 20 for 1 week

15 Lena Martell - "One Day At A Time"

1. October 27 for 3 weeks

16 Dr Hook - "When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman"

1. November 17 for 3 weeks

17 The Police - "Walking on the Moon"

1. December 8 for 1 week

18 Pink Floyd - "Another Brick in the Wall"

1. December 15 for 5 weeks

List corrected with reference to the "Guinness book of British Hit Singles"

Continues to List of number-one singles from the 1980s

See also

• List of Number 1 singles (UK)
• UK Singles Chart
• The official UK charts http://www.theofficialcharts.com