January-December year ends (1959-2023)

[gikem]

That's a decent number of classics that didn't make the new list and/or just missed, my goodness...

[mikerivera]

A few more notes on this year
1. After ending the charts at the end of November last year, Billboard ended the original 1973 chart in the middle of November. They would end the 1974 chart at the end of October, which would spark a full decade of Billboard deciding November-October was an acceptable chart window. 
2. If the longevity looks slightly longer on 1973 than previous years, that’s because Billboard decided to revoke the recurrent rule. Songs that fell below the top 50 were allowed to keep falling. 
3. I didn’t realize the Monster Mash was re-released this year until I started working on the chart. The asterisk is for previously making the chart in 1962. 
4. I find it interesting that this year had three hit songs about gypsies and three hit songs about space. I think that’s a good reflection of where the public’s mind was probably at this year. (Side note: I’m really sad Space Oddity got calculated out)
5. I’m a little embarrassed to admit that I didn’t realize until working on this chart that Brooks & Dunn were not the original performers of My Maria. To be fair though, my knowledge of country music mostly begins in 1981. 
6. If you want to know how old I am and how out of my depth I am doing these lists, for the longest time, I didn’t realize Dancing in the Moonlight was a real song. The first time I heard it was on the Disney Channel in like 2008, where this cover version was all I knew for the longest time. And if you want to know how broken my taste in music is, after listening to the King Harvest original and the covers...the Alyson Stoner version is still my favorite. Despite, well, pretty much everything about it. 

[mikerivera]

Mar 12, 2022 15:56:53 GMT -5 gikem said:

That's a decent number of classics that didn't make the new list and/or just missed, my goodness...

To be fair, this new list now includes Photograph, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and Knockin On Heaven’s Door. Plus, Let’s Get it On is now the YE1

[phieaglesfan712]

Mar 12, 2022 16:11:41 GMT -5 mikerivera said:

Mar 12, 2022 15:56:53 GMT -5 gikem said:

That's a decent number of classics that didn't make the new list and/or just missed, my goodness...

To be fair, this new list now includes Photograph, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and Knockin On Heaven’s Door. Plus, Let’s Get it On is now the YE1

I agree. The list looks a lot better with Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and Knockin on Heavens Door. Quite frankly, the biggest surprise is that Let’s Get It On finished #1 on here. I thought Tie a Yellow Ribbon would be a sure thing. However, I’m even more confident now that Seasons in the Sun will top the 1974 list.

[gikem]

Mar 12, 2022 16:09:41 GMT -5 mikerivera said:

6. If you want to know how old I am and how out of my depth I am doing these lists, for the longest time, I didn’t realize Dancing in the Moonlight was a real song. The first time I heard it was on the Disney Channel in like 2008, where this cover version was all I knew for the longest time. And if you want to know how broken my taste in music is, after listening to the King Harvest original and the covers...the Alyson Stoner version is still my favorite. Despite, well, pretty much everything about it. 

Hey, if it makes you feel better, the first Selena Gomez song I remember hearing was her 2009 cover of Magic by Pilot, another song from the '70s that I didn't know existed until I first heard the original a decade later when going through the 1975 YE.

[Private Dancer]

Jan 21, 2022 0:07:46 GMT -5 Private Dancer said:

Jan 19, 2022 12:46:02 GMT -5 94sidekick said:

Will someone eventually do the 1970s for these lists?

Yeah cause I'm waiting.

My predictions are Midnight Train To Georgia will be in the top ten of that year

Welp...I knew it...

Multiple classics, Killing Me Softly, Touch Me In The Morning and Midnight Train To motherfreakin Georgia!!!! Also, Imagination, Neither One Of Us, Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me. The way Gladys had the early-mid 70s in a chokehold!

[inverse]

I'm sad that Why Me isn't top 10 anymore, thought it would have a shot with the insane amount of weeks for the time but sadly too many of them were below the top 40 & it doesn't really belong there. If you adjust for strength between formulas there's some years of the 60's where it would have been top 10 though

[mikerivera]

The 1974. I've seen a lot of people refer to this as one of the worst years of all time. And after going through it, I gotta say the hype is real. Outside of a few classics, this year suuuuuuuuucks. But hey, bad years need chronicling too, and the 70s get a lot better from this point forward. Also, turnover atop the chart was insane this year, which led to a still-unbeaten record for #1s in a year and much weaker point totals near the top than previous years.

Rank	Song	Artist	Peak	Top 10	Hot 100	Points
1	The Way We Were	Barbra Streisand	#1 (3 weeks)	9	17	447,250
2	Seasons in the Sun	Terry Jacks	#1 (3 weeks)	8	21	426,190
3	Bennie and the Jets	Elton John	#1	9	18	412,060
4	The Streak	Ray Stevens	#1 (3 weeks)	8	17	398,840
5	Dancing Machine	Jackson 5	#2	9	22	393,850
6	Then You Came	Dionne Warwick & The Spinners	#1	8	19	364,280
7	You Make Me Feel Brand New	The Stylistics	#2	8	25	360,590
8	TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)	MSFB	#1 (2 weeks)	6	18	353,370
9	You Haven't Done Nothin'	Stevie Wonder	#1	7	19	349,330
10	Nothing From Nothing	Billy Preston	#1	7	18	345,740
11	Love's Theme	Love Unlimited Orchestra	#1	7	17	342,710
12	Hooked On a Feeling	Blue Swede	#1	7	17	341,750
13	(You're) Having My Baby	Paul Anka	#1 (3 weeks)	6	15	339,090
14	The Loco-Motion	Grand Funk Rainlroad	#1 (2 weeks)	6	20	337,520
15	Billy Don't Be a Hero	Bo Donaldson & The Weywoods	#1 (2 weeks)	7	19	329,850
16	Sundown	Gordon Lightfoot	#1	7	18	327,290
17	Annie's Song	John Denver	#1 (2 weeks)	7	17	321,890
18	Band on the Run	Paul McCartney & Wings	#1	7	18	321,370
19	Sunshine on My Shoulders	John Denver	#1	7	18	319,280
20	Come and Get Your Love	Redbone	#5	5	23	312,590
21	Rock Me Gently	Andy Kim	#1	6	18	309,790
22	Feel Like Makin' Love	Roberta Flack	#1	6	16	306,990
23	Jungle Boogie	Kool & The Gang	#4	7	22	305,300
24	Boogie Down	Eddie Kendricks	#2	6	18	303,890
25	You're Sixteen	Ringo Starr	#1	7	12	303,610
26	Spiders and Snakes	Jim Stafford	#3	7	15	296,630
27	Do It (Till You're Satisfied)	B.T. Express	#2	7	14	295,300
28	The Night Chicago Died	Paper Lace	#1	6	17	291,410
29	You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet	Bachman-Turner Overdrive	#1	5	15	285,410
30	Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)	Aretha Franklin	#3	6	15	285,400
31	I Honestly Love You	Olivia Newton-John	#1 (2 weeks)	5	15	284,040
32	I Can Help	Billy Swan	#1 (2 weeks)	6	14	283,480
33	The Entertainer	Marvin Hamlisch	#3	7	16	283,040
34	Midnight at the Oasis	Maria Muldaur	#6	6	24	278,670
35	Dark Lady	Cher	#1	6	16	277,660
36	The Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me	Gladys Knight & The Pips	#3	5	17	273,470
37	I Shot the Sheriff	Eric Clapton	#1	5	14	273,300
38	Show and Tell	Al Wilson	#1	6	11	267,030
39	Rock Your Baby	George McCrae	#1 (2 weeks)	5	17	266,710
40	Rock On	David Essex	#5	5	17	264,700
41	Tell Me Something Good	Rufus & Chaka Khan	#3	6	17	264,310
42	Kung Fu Fighting	Carl Douglas	#1 (2 weeks)	6	12	264,300
43	Sideshow	Black Magic	#8	3	21	259,020
44	Rock the Boat	The Hues Corporation	#1	5	18	254,330
45	When Will I See You Again	The Three Degrees	#2	6	14	252,060
46	Jazzman	Carole King	#2	4	16	247,510
47	Mockingbird	Carly Simon & James Taylor	#5	6	16	243,070
48	The Show Must Go On	Three Dog Night	#4	4	19	239,900
49	If You Love Me (Let Me Know)	Olivia Newton-John	#5	4	20	239,690
50	The Joker	Steve Miller Band	#1	5	9	239,590
51	Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me	Elton John	#2	5	15	233,510
52	Let Me Be There	Olivia Newton-John	#6	7	12	232,160
53	My Melody of Love	Bobby Vinton	#3	5	15	228,430
54	Rock and Roll Heaven	The Righteous Brothers	#3	4	17	224,560
55	Tin Man	America	#4	4	18	224,170
56	Cat's in the Cradle	Harry Chapin	#1	6	13	224,090
57	The Air That I Breathe	The Hollies	#6	4	21	222,650
58	Whatever Gets You Thru the Night	John Lennon	#1	3	14	222,480
59	Angie Baby	Helen Reddy	#1	5	11	221,380
60	One Hell of a Woman	Mac Davis	#11		28	220,140
61	Rikki Don't Lose That Number	Steely Dan	#4	3	19	217,600
62	I'm Leaving it Up to You	The Osmonds	#4	5	15	215,410
63	Hang On in There Baby	Johnny Bristol	#8	3	17	214,070
64	Be Thankful For What You Got	William DeVaughn	#4	3	18	212,920
65	Waterloo	ABBA	#6	3	17	212,550
66	Sweet Home Alabama	Lynyrd Skynyrd	#8	4	17	208,990
67	The Bitch is Back	Elton John	#4	5	14	208,230
68	Please Come to Boston	Dave Loggins	#5	4	18	208,200
69	Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe	Barry White	#1	4	12	207,470
70	I've Got to Use My Imagination	Gladys Knight & The Pips	#4	6	10	207,450
71	Just Don't Want to Be Lonely	The Main Ingredient	#10	1	20	207,420
72	Can't Get Enough	Bad Company	#5	4	15	206,410
73	Beach Baby	The First Class	#4	3	17	203,880
74	Clap For the Wolfman	The Guess Who ft. Wolfman Jack	#6	4	16	202,150
75	On and On	Gladys Knight & The Pips	#5	3	17	202,110
76	You and Me Against the World	Helen Reddy	#9	3	20	201,530
77	Help Me	Joni Mitchell	#7	3	19	200,210
78	Back Home Again	John Denver	#5	3	15	198,820
79	Oh My My	Ringo Starr	#5	3	14	196,830
80	You Won't See Me	Anne Murray	#8	3	20	196,560
81	The Lord's Prayer	Sister Janet Mead	#4	4	13	195,760
82	Hollywood Swinging	Kool & The Gang	#6	3	19	195,160
83	Time in a Bottle*	Jim Croce	#1	4	8	191,870
84	Eres Tu	Mocedades	#9	2	17	191,430
85	Smokin' in the Boys Room	Brownsville Station	#3	4	9	190,710
86	(I've Been) Seachin' So Long	Chicago	#9	3	15	189,350
87	Jet	Paul McCartney & Wings	#7	3	14	188,150
88	Wildwood Weed	Jim Stafford	#7	4	14	185,740
89	Americans	Byron MacGregor	#4	4	12	185,070
90	Longfellow Serenade	Neil Diamond	#5	3	13	182,120
91	Everlasting Love	Carl Carlton	#6	3	15	180,040
92	For the Love of Money	The O'Jays	#9	2	18	179,280
93	Tubular Bells	Mike Oldfield	#7	2	16	177,180
94	Lookin' For a Love	Bobby Womack	#10	1	17	173,720
95	Sha-La-La (Make Me Happy)	Al Green	#7	3	14	173,700
96	Another Saturday Night	Cat Stevens	#6	3	14	171,200
97	Put Your Hands Together	The O'Jays	#10	1	14	171,000
98	Keep On Smilin'	Wet Willie	#10	1	19	169,590
99	Oh Very Young	Cat Stevens	#10	1	17	166,250
100	Steppin' Out (Gonna Boogie Tonight)	Tony Orlando & Dawn	#7	3	13	164,650

[mikerivera]

Songs that missed

Calculated out:
-A Love Song
-A Very Special Love Song
-Don't Worry 'Bout a Thing
-Helen Wheels
-I Love
-I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song
-Me and Baby Brother
-Mighty Love
-My Girl Bill
-My Mistake (Was to Love You)
-Radar Love
-Takin' Care of Business
-Trying to Hold On to My Woman
-Wild Thing

Made 1973:
-Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
-Hello it's Me
-Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)
-The Most Beautiful Girl
-Top of the World

Caught between years:
-Helen Wheels
-Living For the City
-Never, Never Gonna Give You Up
-Rockin' Roll Baby

[mikerivera]

Next closest 10

Rank	Song	Artist	Points
101	I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song	Jim Croce	164,390
102	Call On Me	Chicago	164,140
103	Stop and Smell the Roses	Mac Davis	161,130
104	Life is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)	Reunion	160,670
105	Takin' Care of Business	Bachman-Turner Overdrive	159,950
106	Radar Love	Golden Earring	156,100
107	Living For the City	Stevie Wonder	155,430
108	You're the First, My Last, My Everything	Barry White	152,930
109	I've Got the Music in Me	Kiki Dee	146,260
110	A Very Special Love Song	Charlie Rich	145,820

[phieaglesfan712]

Surprised that The Way We Were still finished ahead of Seasons in the Sun. I would have thought TWWW having part of its run in late 1973 would have given the edge to Seasons in the Sun, but I guess TWWW was much higher on the all-time chart.

[Private Dancer]

THEN CAME YOU IN THE TOP TEN OF ITS YEAR????? LITERALLY THE BEST SONG OF 1974

[phieaglesfan712]

Mar 21, 2022 21:07:09 GMT -5 mikerivera said:

Next closest 10

Rank	Song	Artist	Points
101	I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song	Jim Croce	164,390
102	Call On Me	Chicago	164,140

Gosh this cutoff is brutal. This might be the best 101/102 we've had so far.

On to 1975. I'll be really happy if Pure Prairie League's "Amie" makes the list.

[inverse]

Not taking care of business missing the list :( this year was terrible enough didn’t need its best song removed

[phieaglesfan712]

Mar 22, 2022 9:46:24 GMT -5 inverse said:

Not taking care of business missing the list :( this year was terrible enough didn’t need its best song removed

Nah, the Jim Croce and Chicago songs that missed are way better than TCB. I’d also throw in the Barry White song as well. We can at least agree that all 4 of these are better than the song at 100.

[mikerivera]

The song I was saddest to lose was Living For the City. But it’s okay guys, instead of all those songs, we got Sweet Home Alabama. Side note: if YouTube existed in 1974, that song would have made all of those YT critics’ worst lists just for the line “Watergate does not bother me” mere months after Nixon resigned.

[nathanalbright]

That 101-110 is brutal, however you look at it.

[nathanalbright]

For me 101, 102, 104, 105, 106, and 108 are all wonderful songs, contenders for a best list for this year.

[urtarreviews]

Hey everyone after a break from doing Crownnote Jan-Dec Year Ends, I return with 2007 being finished. The Year End is out on my blog. urtarreviews.blogspot.com/2022/03/2007-jan-dec-year-end-list-based-on.html?m=1


Oh btw Misery Business just barely missed it was 102. You know what why not I'll post the top 20 closest songs that missed.

101. Whine Up
102. Misery Business
103. Welcome To The Black Parade
104. Never Wanted Nothing More
105. Break It Off
106. Take Me There
107. Wasted
108. Shawty Is A 10
109. Do You Know (The Ping Pong Song)
110. Ticks
111. Tattoo
112. Online
113. Like This (the Kelly Rowland song not the MIMS one)
114. Promise
115. Chasing Cars
116. We Takin' Over
117. Snow (Hey Oh)
118. Here (In Your Arms)
119. Top Back
120. It Ends Tonight

[nathanalbright]

That is a very strange collection of songs, some of which did better in other years, obviously, some of which are classics, and some of which are completely obscure to me.

[joshtheking]

Mar 24, 2022 3:09:12 GMT -5 urtarreviews said:

102. Misery Business
103. Welcome To The Black Parade

oh this is just cruel

[nathanalbright]

Indeed. Those are the classics I was talking about.

[Private Dancer]

Not y'all sleeping on Then Came You. Literally, the best song of 1974 and Aretha's UYCBTM(TWIGD) follows super close behind and so does Gladys.

R&B was literally on fire this year.

I noticed how no one literally said anything about TWWW. LOL!

[phieaglesfan712]

1973 and 1974 produced surprising results at #1, at least in my opinion. I thought for sure Tie a Yellow Ribbon was going to be #1 (that song had great longevity for its time, and there didn’t seem to be any song really close), whereas Seasons in the Sun would clearly beat out The Way We Were because all of Seasons run was in 74, while TWWW’s run was partly in 73.

One more thing before I let 73 and 74 go, 73 was the year The Doobie Brothers became big, and this was the song that did it:

[phieaglesfan712]

Looking ahead to 1975:

The second version charted at #24 on the 2001 J-D list. Will the original outchart it? Who knows, maybe we're due for a third version in 2027.

[mikerivera]

The 1975 chart is here, and we're now kicking off the glory era of the 70s. Coming off 1974, this list is such a glow up. The only year-over-year improvement I can think to compare this to is 2018 to 2019. And that isn't just because it's the dawn of disco; every genre came out swinging this year. This year isn’t even the peak of the second half of the 70s, but it's a great introduction.

Rank	Song	Artist	Peak	Top 10	Hot 100	Points
1	Rhinestone Cowboy	Glen Campbell	#1 (2 weeks)	9	23	459,330
2	Philadelphia Freedom	Elton John	#1 (2 weeks)	9	21	450,590
3	Love Will Keep Us Together	Captain & Tenille	#1 (4 weeks)	6	23	446,030
4	I'm Sorry/Calypso	John Denver	#1	9	18	426,430
5	One of These Nights	Eagles	#1	10	17	382,610
6	Before the Next Teardrop Falls	Freddy Fender	#1	8	21	382,510
7	Lovin' You	Minnie Riperton	#1	8	18	351,470
8	Fame	David Bowie	#1 (2 weeks)	6	21	343,780
9	Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song	BJ Thomas	#1	7	18	336,870
10	Jive Talkin'	Bee Gees	#1 (2 weeks)	8	17	335,670
11	Feelings	Morris Albert	#6	6	28	332,910
12	Island Girl	Elton John	#1 (3 weeks)	7	12	326,730
13	The Hustle	Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony	#1	7	19	325,450
14	My Eyes Adored You	Frankie Valli	#1	8	17	325,130
15	Lady Marmalade	Patti LaBelle	#1	7	18	324,400
16	Black Water	The Doobie Brothers	#1	7	15	321,200
17	Shining Star	Earth, Wind & Fire	#1	5	20	317,100
18	He Don't Love You (Like I Love You)	Tony Orlando & Dawn	#1 (3 weeks)	6	14	308,830
19	Fly, Robin, Fly	Silver Convention	#1 (3 weeks)	6	12	307,590
20	Fallin' in Love	Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds	#1	6	17	307,270
21	That's the Way (I Like It)	KC & The Sunshine Band	#1 (2 weeks)	7	10	301,990
22	Best of My Love	Eagles	#1	6	14	297,640
23	Thank God I'm a Country Boy	John Denver	#1	5	19	296,670
24	I'm Not in Love	10cc	#2	5	17	293,390
25	When Will I Be Loved	Linda Ronstadt	#2	7	15	293,300
26	The Ballroom Blitz	Sweet	#5	5	25	291,610
27	Pick Up the Pieces	Average White Band	#1	7	13	290,380
28	Listen to What the Man Said	Wings	#1	7	14	290,150
29	Bad Blood	Neil Sedaka	#1 (3 weeks)	5	14	285,910
30	Have You Never Been Mellow	Olivia Newton-John	#1	7	16	285,530
31	Please Mr. Please	Olivia Newton-John	#3	8	15	284,970
32	At Seventeen	Janis Ian	#3	6	20	284,460
33	Miracles	Jefferson Starship	#3	6	17	283,820
34	Who Loves You	The Four Seasons	#3	7	19	282,470
35	Love Won't Let Me Wait	Major Harris	#5	5	18	274,230
36	Sister Golden Hair	America	#1	4	16	272,410
37	Sky High	Jigsaw	#3	5	18	260,770
38	Lyin' Eyes	Eagles	#2	6	14	260,560
39	Fight the Power	The Isley Brothers	#4	5	18	259,950
40	Wildfire	Michael Murphey	#3	4	19	258,430
41	They Just Can't Stop it the (Games People Play)	The Spinners	#5	4	18	255,120
42	Fire	Ohio Players	#1	4	14	252,690
43	Jackie Blue	Ozark Mountain Daredevils	#3	4	21	251,750
44	I'm Not Lisa	Jessi Colter	#4	5	17	247,380
45	Why Can't We Be Friends	War	#6	4	20	246,620
46	Let's Do it Again	The Staple Singers	#1	6	15	244,820
47	Express	B.T. Express	#4	5	15	243,460
48	The Way I Want to Touch You	Captain & Tenille	#4	5	14	241,730
49	Laughter in the Rain	Neil Sedaka	#1	6	9	237,620
50	How Long	Ace	#3	4	16	237,270
51	Wasted Days and Wasted Nights	Freddy Fender	#8	3	19	236,100
52	Get Down Tonight	KC & The Sunshine Band	#1	4	15	235,720
53	You're No Good	Linda Ronstadt	#1	5	12	235,390
54	Magic	Pilot	#5	4	20	231,310
55	Could it Be Magic	Barry Manilow	#6	4	18	230,540
56	Chevy Van	Sammy Johns	#5	4	17	228,300
57	Boogie on Reggae Woman	Stevie Wonder	#3	7	10	225,340
58	How Sweet it Is (To Be Loved By You)	James Taylor	#5	5	15	222,410
59	Midnight Blue	Melissa Manchester	#6	4	17	221,660
60	Someone Saved My Life Tonight	Elton John	#4	6	13	221,560
61	Walking in Rhythm	The Blackbyrds	#6	4	17	220,690
62	No No Song	Ringo Starr	#3	5	14	218,820
63	Some Kind of Wonderful	Grand Funk Railroad	#3	5	10	218,490
64	Bad Time	Grand Funk Railroad	#4	4	15	218,030
65	Poetry Man	Phoebe Snow	#5	4	18	217,450
66	This Will Be	Natalie Cole	#6	5	17	212,960
67	Please Mr. Postman	The Carpenters	#1	5	11	210,520
68	Low Rider	War	#7	4	15	209,760
69	Lonely People	America	#5	6	13	208,650
70	Dance With Me	Orleans	#6	3	18	207,380
71	Nights on Broadway	Bee Gees	#7	4	13	204,080
72	Heat Wave	Linda Ronstadt	#5	3	13	202,650
73	Only Yesterday	The Carpenters	#4	5	13	201,720
74	Mandy	Barry Manilow	#1	5	9	198,110
75	I Don't Like to Sleep Alone	Paul Anka & Odia Coates	#8	4	15	195,310
76	Lady	Styx	#6	3	14	194,490
77	You Are So Beautiful	Joe Cocker	#5	3	17	193,190
78	Cut the Cake	Average White Band	#10	2	15	190,930
79	Saturday Night	Bay City Rollers	#2	4	12	190,500
80	Feel Like Makin' Love	Bad Company	#10	2	15	188,360
81	Don't Call Us, We'll Call You	Sugarloaf	#9	3	17	187,680
82	Dynomite	Bazuka	#10	1	20	185,940
83	The Way We Were/ Try to Remember	Gladys Knight & The Pips	#11		17	185,590
84	It Only Takes a Minute	Tavares	#10	1	18	184,790
85	Lucy in the Sky With the Diamonds	Elton John	#1 (2 weeks)	3	9	183,990
86	Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady	Helen Reddy	#8	3	16	182,700
87	Run Joey Run	David Geddes	#4	4	13	179,490
88	That's the Way of the World	Earth, Wind & Fire	#12		16	178,770
89	Only Women Bleed	Alice Cooper	#12		16	178,500
90	Old Days	Chicago	#5	4	11	175,070
91	Get Down, Get Down (Get On the Floor)	Joe Simon	#8	3	17	174,660
92	Brazil	The Ritchie Family	#11		18	173,300
93	Swearin' to God	Frankie Valli	#6	3	14	171,390
94	Can't Get it Out of My Head	Electric Light Orchestra	#9	2	14	166,610
95	The Rockford Files Theme	Mike Post	#10	2	16	165,390
96	Do it Any Way You Wanna	People's Choice	#11		16	165,230
97	Supernatural Thing	Ben E. King	#5	2	14	163,660
98	Long Tall Glasses (I Can Dance)	Leo Slayer	#9	2	15	161,050
99	Killer Queen	Queen	#12		19	159,950
100	Emma	Hot Chocolate	#8	2	14	159,180

[mikerivera]

Songs that missed

Calculated out:
-Bungle in the Jungle
-Get Dancin’
-I’m on Fire
-Misty
-Shoeshine Boy
-Third Rate Romance

Made 1974:
-Angie Baby
-Cat’s in the Cradle
-Do It (Til You’re Satisfied)
-I Can Help
-Kung Fu Fighting
-Sha La La (Make Me Happy)
-When Will I See You Again
-You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet

Caught between years:
-Doctor’s Orders
-Junior’s Farm/Sally G
-Mountain Side of the Morning
-Never Can Say Goodbye
-One Man Woman/One Woman Man
-Only You
-You Got the Love
-You’re the First, My Last, My Everything

Quick note: I’m Sorry and Calypso were the Side A and Side B of the same single. I’m Sorry was the song that was promoted to radio, but midway through the chart run, Calypso began getting more airplay. Billboard decided to only count one song at a time, and this led to I’m Sorry’s chart run ending abruptly while it was at #2, and Calypso debuting at #2, with both songs only being credited with 9 weeks apiece. For this chart, I counted both songs’ chart runs as a single entity. This makes more sense to me, given that 100% of people who bought one song also bought the other, and both songs were still receiving airplay that contributed to each other’s chart runs. The same rule applies to Junior’s Farm and Sally G, though that song was caught between years anyways

[mikerivera]

The next closest 10

Rank	Song	Artist	Points
101	Rockin’ Chair	Gwen McCrae	155,070
102	My Little Town	Simon & Garfunkel	153,950
103	Lady Blue	Leon Russell	147,670
104	I Only Have Eyes For You	Art Garfunkel	145,930
105	Doctor’s Orders	Carol Douglas	143,740
106	#9 Dream	John Lennon	139,990
107	Morning Side of the Mountain	Donny & Marie Osmond	139,310
108	Shoeshine Boy	Eddie Kendricks	139,020
109	You’re the First, My Last, My Everything	Barry White	138,360
110	Misty	Ray Stevens	137,900

[phieaglesfan712]

How close (or far) was Amie from making the 1975 list?

[mikerivera]

Not close at all. It peaked at #27 and spent 13 weeks on the chart, only 3 of which were in the top 40.

Don’t feel too bad about that. Even though I knew it also had no chance, I was really hoping Born to Run could sneak in.