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THE ARC WEEKLY TOP 40 ARCHIVES
TOP 100 POP SONGS
OF THE 1970s

	peak	wks		year
1	"You Light Up My Life" from the LP You Light Up My Life Billboard chart run: 35 - 21 - 15 - 3 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 2 - 2 - 6 - 11 - 22 - 22 - 32 off	Debby Boone	1(10)	21	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1977
2	"How Deep Is Your Love" from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack Billboard chart run: 34 - 24 - 20 - 15 - 11 - 9 - 6 - 3 - 3 - 3 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 2 - 2 - 7 - 7 - 10 - 10 - 10 - 10 - 15 - 35 - 33 - 32 - off	Bee Gees	1(3)	26	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1977
3	"I Just Want To Be Your Everything" from the LP Flowing Rivers Billboard chart run: 37 - 32 - 26 - 21 - 15 - 7 - 5 - 4 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 3 - 1 - 6 - 10 - 10 - 10 - 15 - 27 - off	Andy Gibb	1(4)	23	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1977
4	Night Fever from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack Billboard chart run: 32 - 17 - 8 - 5 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 5 - 10 - 16 - 24 - 32 - off	Bee Gees	1(8)	18	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1978
5	Shadow Dancing from the LP Shadow Dancing Billboard chart run: 30 - 22 - 14 - 11 - 6 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 5 - 15 - 30 - 40 - off	Andy Gibb	1(7)	19	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1978
6	Stayin' Alive from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack Billboard chart run: 39 - 39 - 28 - 17 - 10 - 3 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 2 - 6 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 13 - 13 - 26 - 28 - 40 - off	Bee Gees	1(4)	22	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1978
7	Le Freak from the LP C'est Chic Billboard chart run: 37 - 6 - 4 - 1 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 2 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 3 - 7 - 7 - 7 - 11 - 15 - 24 - off	Chic	1(6)	19	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1979
8	Tonight's The Night (Gonna Be Alright) from the LP A Night On The Town Billboard chart run: 35 - 22 - 8 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 3 - 6 - 11 - 22 - 30 - 35 - off	Rod Stewart	1(8)	17	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1976
9	My Sharona from the LP Get The Knack Billboard chart run: 34 - 18 - 6 - 4 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 4 - 5 - 8 - 19 - 26 - off	The Knack	1(6)	16	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1979
10	(Love Is) Thicker Than Water from the LP Flowing Rivers Billboard chart run: 39 - 37 - 32 - 32 - 34 - 20 - 14 - 10 - 5 - 3 - 2 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 5 - 6 - 8 - 8 - 17 - 27 - 27 - 35 - off	Andy Gibb	1(2)	22	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1978
11	Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head from the LP Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head Billboard chart run: 37 - 25 - 13 - 9 - 5 - 3 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 3 - 3 - 3 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 14 - 27 - 30 - off	B.J. Thomas	1(4)	19	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1970
12	Best Of My Love from the LP Rejoice Billboard chart run: 30 - 14 - 12 - 10 - 6 - 3 - 3 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 3 - 1 - 4 - 6 - 17 - 23 - off	Emotions	1(5)	17	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1977
13	Y.M.C.A. from the LP Crusin' Billboard chart run: 31 - 22 - 17 - 15 - 13 - 12 - 8 - 8 - 7 - 7 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 5 - 8 - 9 - 12 - 22 - off	Village People	2	20	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1979
14	I Go Crazy from the LP Singer Of Songs: Teller Of Tales Billboard chart run: 37 - 34 - 31 - 29 - 28 - 25 - 25 - 23 - 23 - 23 - 21 - 21 - 19 - 18 - 16 - 14 - 12 - 11 - 9 - 8 - 7 - 7 - 7 - 28 - 35 - off	Paul Davis	7	25	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1978
15	I Will Survive from the LP Love Tracks Billboard chart run: 35 - 20 - 10 - 7 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 1 - 1 - 2 - 2 - 1 - 2 - 2 - 5 - 13 - 24 - off	Gloria Gaynor	1(3)	17	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1979
16	A Fifth Of Beethoven from the LP A Fifth Of Beethoven Billboard chart run: 40 - 36 - 34 - 32 - 23 - 20 - 14 - 13 - 8 - 7 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 3 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 5 - 19 - 21 - 34 - 36 - off	Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band	1(1)	22	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1976
17	Hot Stuff from the LP Bad Girls Billboard chart run: 29 - 20 - 3 - 2 - 2 - 1 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 3 - 3 - 4 - 9 - 9 - 19 - off	Donna Summer	1(3)	17	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1979
18	Kiss You All Over from the LP Mixed Emotions Billboard chart run: 27 - 18 - 16 - 11 - 7 - 5 - 5 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 6 - 7 - 6 - 7 - 33 - off	Exile	1(4)	17	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1978
19	Joy To The World from the LP Naturally Billboard chart run: 34 - 11 - 3 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 2 - 2 - 5 - 8 - 12 - 31 - off	Three Dog Night	1(6)	15	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1971
20	The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face from the LP First Take Billboard chart run: 17 - 10 - 3 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 3 - 3 - 7 - 11 - 18 - 36 - off	Roberta Flack	1(6)	15	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1972
21	Love Theme From A Star Is Born from the A Star Is Born soundtrack Billboard chart run: 40 - 35 - 20 - 9 - 7 - 5 - 4 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 2 - 5 - 9 - 8 - 7 - 17 - 31 - off	Barbra Streisand	1(3)	18	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1977
22	Baby Come Back from the LP Player	Player	1(3)	16	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1978
23	Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree from the LP Tuneweaving	Dawn featuring Tony Orlando	1(4)	17	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1973
24	Do Ya Think I'm Sexy? from the LP Blondes Have More Fun	Rod Stewart	1(4)	18	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1979
25	Boogie Oogie Oogie from the LP A Taste Of Honey	A Taste Of Honey	1(3)	17	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1978
26	Hot Child In The City from the LP City Nights	Nick Gilder	1(1)	18	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1978
27	Bad Girls from the LP Bad Girls Billboard chart run: 28 - 11 - 5 - 3 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 4 - 5 - 11 - 21 - 31 - off	Donna Summer	1(5)	15	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1979
28	American Pie from the LP American Pie	Don McLean	1(4)	17	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1972
29	I'll Be There from the LP Third Album	Jackson 5	1(5)	16	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1970
30	Maggie May / Reason To Believe from the LP Every Picture Tells A Story	Rod Stewart	1(5)	15	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1971
31	Play That Funky Music from the LP Wild Cherry	Wild Cherry	1(3)	18	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1976
32	Let's Get It On from the LP Let's Get It On	Marvin Gaye	1(2)	17	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1973
33	Alone Again (Naturally) from the LP Himself	Gilbert O'Sullivan	1(6)	15	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1972
34	I Think I Love You from the LP The Partridge Family Album	Partridge Family	1(3)	16	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1970
35	Rhinestone Cowboy from the LP Rhinestone Cowboy	Glen Campbell	1(2)	18	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1975
36	Sad Eyes from the LP Robert John	Robert John	1(1)	19	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1979
37	Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue from the LP We Must Believe In Magic	Crystal Gayle	2	18	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1977
38	Silly Love Songs from the LP Wings At The Speed Of Sound	Wings	1(5)	15	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1976
39	It's Too Late / I Feel The Earth Move from the LP Tapestry	Carole King	1(5)	15	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1971
40	Knock Three Times from the LP Candida	Dawn	1(3)	16	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1971
41	Three Times A Lady from the LP Natural High	The Commodores	1(2)	16	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1978
42	The Way We Were from the LP The Way We Were	Barbra Streisand	1(3)	17	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1974
43	Reunited from the LP 2 Hot	Peaches & Herb	1(4)	15	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1979
44	Bridge Over Troubled Water from the LP Bridge Over Troubled Water	Simon & Garfunkel	1(6)	13	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1970
45	Emotion from the LP Emotion	Samantha Sang	3	17	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1978
46	You Don't Have To Be A Star (To Be In My Show) from the LP I Hope We Get To Love In Time	Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis, Jr.	1(1)	18	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1976
47	Lay Down Sally from the LP Slowhand	Eric Clapton	3	17	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1978
48	Boogie Nights from the LP Too Hot To Handle	Heatwave	2	17	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1977
49	Pop Muzik from the LP New York London Paris Munich	M	1(1)	20	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1979
50	Disco Duck (Part 1) from the LP The Original Disco Duck	Rick Dees & His Cast Of Idiots	1(1)	16		1976
51	You're The One That I Want from the Grease soundtrack	John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John	1(1)	16	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1978
52	Philadelphia Freedom from the LP Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy	Elton John	1(2)	17	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1975
53	(They Long To Be) Close To You from the LP Close To You	The Carpenters	1(4)	15	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1970
54	I Love The Night Life from the LP Alicia Bridges	Alicia Bridges	5	19	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1978
55	Love Machine Pt. 1 from the LP City Of Angels	Miracles	1(1)	19	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1976
56	Love Will Keep Us Together from the LP Love Will Keep Us Together	Captain & Tennille	1(4)	16	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1975
57	I Like Dreamin' from the LP Kenny Nolan	Kenny Nolan	3	20	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1977
58	You Needed Me from the LP Let's Keep It That Way	Anne Murray	1(1)	17	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1978
59	Kiss And Say Goodbye from the LP The Manhattans	The Manhattans	1(2)	17	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1976
60	Ring My Bell from the LP Songs Of Love	Anita Ward	1(2)	15	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1979
61	Still from the LP Midnight Magic Billboard chart run / ARC chart run: 38 - 10 - 8 - 5 - 3 - 1 - 3 - 3 - 3 - 2 - 5 - 19 / 33 - off	The Commodores	1(1)	15	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1979
62	Please Don't Go from the LP Do You Wanna Go Party Billboard chart run / ARC chart run: 39 - 37 - 28 - 16 - 13 - 11 - 10 - 9 - 6 - 4 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 2 / 12 - 21 - off	KC & The Sunshine Band	2	16	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1979
63	Love Is Alive from the LP Dream Weaver	Gary Wright	2	18	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1976
64	Rise from the LP Rise	Herb Alpert	1(2)	15	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1979
65	Don't Leave Me This Way from the LP Any Way You Like It	Thelma Houston	1(1)	17	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1977
66	You Make Me Feel Like Dancing from the LP Endless Flight	Leo Sayer	1(1)	17	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1977
67	I Write The Songs from the LP Tryin' To Get The Feeling	Barry Manilow	1(1)	16	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1976
68	You're So Vain from the LP No Secrets	Carly Simon	1(3)	14	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1973
69	(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher And Higher from the LP Anytime... Anywhere	Rita Coolidge	2	17	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1977
70	Too Much Heaven from the LP Spirits Having Flown	Bee Gees	1(2)	17	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1979
71	I Gotcha from the LP I Gotcha	Joe Tex	2	16	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1972
72	Bad, Bad Leroy Brown from the LP Life And Times	Jim Croce	1(2)	16	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1973
73	MacArthur Park from the LP Live And More Billboard chart run: 25 - 21 - 11 - 8 - 4 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 2 - 2 - 10 - 15 - 15 - 38 - off	Donna Summer	1(3)	15	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1978
74	December 1963 (Oh What A Night) from the LP Who Loves You Billboard chart run: 40 - 28 - 18 - 12 - 5 - 3 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 8 - 14 - 14 - 14 - 16 - 25 - off	The Four Seasons	1(3)	15	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1976
75	Indian Reservation (The Lament Of The Cherokee) from the LP Indian Reservation	Paul Revere & The Raiders	1(1)	15	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1971
76	A Little More Love from the LP Totally Hot	Olivia Newton-John	3	17	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1979
77	Undercover Angel from the LP Appetizers	Alan O'Day	1(1)	17	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1977
78	Keep On Truckin' from the LP Eddie Kendricks	Eddie Kendricks	1(2)	16	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1973
79	My Love from the LP Red Rose Speedway	Paul McCartney & Wings	1(4)	15	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1973
80	I'd Really Love To See You Tonight from the LP Nights Are Forever	England Dan & John Ford Coley	2	17	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1976
81	Brand New Key from the LP Gather Me	Melanie	1(3)	14	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1972
82	Just The Way You Are from the LP The Stranger	Billy Joel	3	18	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1978
83	Babe from the LP Cornerstone	STYX	1(2)	14	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1979
84	If I Can't Have You from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack	Yvonne Elliman	1(1)	16	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1978
85	(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty from the LP Part 3	KC & The Sunshine Band	1(1)	16	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1976
86	Without You from the LP Nilsson Schmilsson	Nilsson	1(4)	14	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1972
87	Grease from the Grease soundtrack	Frankie Valli	12)	15	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1978
88	Midnight Train To Georgia from the LP Imagination	Gladys Knight & The Pips	1(2)	16	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1973
89	The Rubberband Man from the LP Happiness Is Being With The Spinners	The Spinners	2	17	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1976
90	Dancing Machine from the LP Get It Together	Jackson 5	2	16	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1974
91	I Want You Back from the LP Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5	Jackson 5	1(1)	16	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1970
92	If You Leave Me Now from the LP Chicago X	Chicago	1(2)	17	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1976
93	I'll Never Love This Way Again from the LP Dionne	Dionne Warwick	5	17	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1979
94	I Can See Clearly Now from the LP I Can See Clearly Now	Johnny Nash	1(4)	14	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1972
95	Torn Between Two Lovers from the LP Torn Between Two Lovers	Mary MacGregor	1(2)	16		1977
96	Seasons In The Sun from the LP Seasons In The Sun	Terry Jacks	1(3)	15	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1974
97	Nobody Does It Better from the Spy Who Loved Me soundtrack	Carly Simon	2	15	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1977
98	Feelings from the LP Feelings	Morris Albert	6	16	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1975
99	Killing Me Softly With His Song from the LP Killing Me Softly	Roberta Flack	1(5)	13	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1973
100	Angel In Your Arms from the LP Hot	Hot	6	19	iTunes Amazon.mp3	1977
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