These are the number-one singles on the Top 100 Singles chart in 1970 as published in Cashbox magazine.
+KeyThe yellow background indicates the #1 song on the Cash Box Year-End Charts for 1970. Issue date Song Artist January 3 "Someday We'll Be Together" Diana Ross & The Supremes January 10 "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" B. J. Thomas January 17 January 24 "I Want You Back" The Jackson 5 January 31 "Venus" Shocking Blue February 7 February 14 February 21 "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" Sly & the Family Stone February 28 "Bridge over Troubled Water" Simon and Garfunkel March 7 March 14 March 21 March 28 "Let It Be" The Beatles April 4 April 11 April 18 April 25 "ABC" The Jackson 5 May 2 "Spirit in the Sky"Norman Greenbaum May 9 May 16 "American Woman" The Guess Who May 23 May 30 "Cecilia" Simon and Garfunkel June 6 "Everything Is Beautiful" Ray Stevens June 13 "The Long and Winding Road" The Beatles June 20 June 27 "The Love You Save" The Jackson 5 July 4 July 11 "Mama Told Me (Not to Come)" Three Dog Night July 18 July 25 "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)" The Temptations August 1 "(They Long to Be) Close to You" The Carpenters August 8 August 15 "Make It With You" Bread August 22 "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" Stevie Wonder August 29 "Spill the Wine" Eric Burdon & War September 5 "War" Edwin Starr September 12 September 19 "Patches" Clarence Carter September 26 "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" Diana Ross October 3 "Lookin' out My Back Door" Creedence Clearwater Revival October 10 "Candida" Dawn October 17 "Cracklin' Rosie" Neil Diamond October 24 "I'll Be There" The Jackson 5 October 31 November 7 "We've Only Just Begun" The Carpenters November 14 "Indiana Wants Me" R. Dean Taylor November 21 "I Think I Love You" The Partridge Family November 28 December 5 December 12 "The Tears of a Clown" Smokey Robinson & the Miracles December 19 "My Sweet Lord" George Harrison December 26
See also 1970 in music List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 1970 (U.S.)
References
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