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These are the Billboard magazine Hot 100 number one hits of 1974.

That year, 25 acts earn their first number one song, such as Steve Miller Band, Al Wilson, Barbra Streisand, Love Unlimited Orchestra, Terry Jacks, John Denver, Blue Swede, MFSB, The Three Degrees, Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods, Gordon Lightfoot, The Hues Corporation, George McCrae, Paper Lace, Odia Coates, Eric Clapton, Barry White, Andy Kim, Olivia Newton-John, Dionne Warwick, The Spinners, Bachman–Turner Overdrive, Billy Swan, Carl Douglas, and Harry Chapin. John Lennon, having already hit number one with The Beatles, earns his first number one song as a solo act. John Denver was the only act to have more than one song reach number one, with two.

1974 is tied with 1975 for scoring the most Hot 100 number ones, 35 each. The year would have more number ones than 1975, at 36, if including "Time in a Bottle" by Jim Croce, which initially topped the Hot 100 on December 29, 1973, and stayed atop the chart to start 1974.

Chart history

Number-one artists

See also

• 1974 in music
• List of Cash Box Top 100 number-one singles of 1974
• List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of the 1970s

References

1. "January 5, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
2. "January 12, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
3. "January 19, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
4. "January 26, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
5. "February 2, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
6. "February 9, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
7. "February 16, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
8. "February 23, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
9. "March 2, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
10. "March 9, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
11. "March 16, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
12. "March 23, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
13. "March 30, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
14. "April 6, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
15. "April 13, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
16. "April 20, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
17. "April 27, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
18. "May 4, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
19. "May 11, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
20. "May 18, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
21. "May 25, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
22. "June 1, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
23. "June 8, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
24. "June 15, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
25. "June 22, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
26. "June 29, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
27. "July 6, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
28. "July 13, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
29. "July 20, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
30. "July 27, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
31. "August 3, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
32. "August 10, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
33. "August 17, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
34. "August 24, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
35. "August 31, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
36. "September 7, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
37. "September 14, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
38. "September 21, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
39. "September 28, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
40. "October 5, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
41. "October 12, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
42. "October 19, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
43. "October 26, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
44. "November 2, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
45. "November 9, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
46. "November 16, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
47. "November 23, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
48. "November 30, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
49. "December 7, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
50. "December 14, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
51. "December 21, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.
52. "December 28, 1974". Billboard Hot 100.

Sources

• Fred Bronson's Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, 5th Edition (ISBN 0-8230-7677-6)
• Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2008, 12 Edition (ISBN 0-89820-180-2)
• Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Seventies (ISBN 0-89820-076-8)
• Additional information obtained can be verified within Billboard's online archive services and print editions of the magazine.

• 1974 record charts
• Lists of Billboard Hot 100 number-one songs
• 1974 in American music