1976 Top Ten Music Charts

1976’s Biggest Artists and Songs

Natalie Cole (1975 Best New Artist Grammy Winner, presented in 1976)
Paul Simon (Grammy for Album of the Year)
Love Will Keep Us Together – Captain and Tennille (Grammy for Record of the Year)
New Artists in the Pop Charts Included:
Boston, Kansas, Boston, England Dan and John Ford Coley, Bay City Rollers, Nazareth, Eddie Rabbitt, Ted Nugent, Andrew Gold, The Tubes, Firefall, John Paul Young, Heart, John Travolta, George Benson, Peter Frampton and Thin Lizzie.

1976’s Retro Top 10 Hits

1. Blitzkrieg Bop – The Ramones
2. You Don’t Have To Be A Star (To Be In My Show) – Marilyn MCcoo & Billy Davis Jr
3. Summer – War
4. She’s Gone – Hall and Oates
5. Paloma Blanca – George Baker Selection
6. Let Her In – John Travolta
7. Squeeze Box – The Who
8. Beth – Kiss
9. Wild in the Streets – Garland Jeffreys
10. Still The One – Orleans

1976’s ‘One Hit Wonders’

1. Afternoon Delight – Starland Vocal Band
2. Fooled Around and Fell in Love – Elvin Bishop
3. I’m Easy – Keith Carradine
4. Moonlight Feels Right – Starbuck
5. Nadia’s Theme – Barry DeVorzon and Perry Botkin, Jr.
6. Stand Tall – Burton Cummings
7. Junk Food Junkie – Larry Groce
8. Movin’ – Brass Construction
9. Staying Power – Barbi Benton
10. I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry – Terry Bradshaw

1976’s Disco Top 10 Hit List

1. (Shake Shake Shake) Shake Your Booty – KC and the Sunshine Band
2. You Should Be Dancing – Bee Gees
3. Boogie Fever – Sylvers
4. Disco Lady – Johnnie Taylor
5. Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel – Tavares
6. More, More, More – Andrea True Connection
7. A Fifth of Beethoven – Walter Murphy
8. I Love Music – The O’Jays
9. Get Up and Boogie (That’s Right) – Silver Convention
10. Love To Love You Baby – Donna Summer

1976’s Funk Top 10 Hit List

1. Play That Funky Music – Wild Cherry
2. Get Up Offa That Thing – James Brown
3. Love Rollercoaster – Ohio Players
4. Tear The Roof Off That Sucker (Give Up The Funk) – Parliament
5. Turn The Beat Around – Vicki Sue Robinson
6. Car Wash – Rose Royce
7. Movin’ – Brass Construction
8. Ten Percent – Double Exposure
9. Getaway – Earth Wind and Fire
10. Get The Funk Out Ma Face – Brothers Johnson

1976’s R&B/Soul Top 10 Hit List

1. Love Ballad – L.T.D.
2. Let The Music Play – Barry White
3. Wake Up Everybody – Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
4. Rubberband Man – The Spinners
5. I’ll Be Good To You – Brothers Johnson
6. Kiss and Say Goodbye – Manhattans
7. Hold Back The Night – The Trammps
8. Sweet Thing – Rufus with Chaka Khan
9. Can’t Hide Love – Earth Wind and Fire
10. Breezin – George Benson

1976’s Pop Dance Top 10 Hit List

1. Play That Funky Music – Wild Cherry
2. You’ll Never Find (Another Love Like Mine) – Lou Rawls
3. December 1963 (Oh What a Night) – The Four Seasons
4. Car Wash – Rose Royce
5. I Heard It Through The Grapevine – Creedence Clearwater Revival
6. Love Machine – The Miracles
7. You Make Me Feel Like Dancing – Leo Sayer
8. Got To Get You Into My Life – The Beatles
9. Right Back Where We Started From – Maxine Nightingale
10. More, More, More – Andrea True Connection

1976’s Pop Rock Top 10 Hit List

1. Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen
2. Rock and Roll All Night – Kiss
3. Dream Weaver – Gary Wright
4. Take It To The Limit – The Eagles
5. Fox On The Run – Sweet
6. 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover – Paul Simon
7. Crazy On You – Heart
8. Love Hurts – Nazareth
9. The Boys Are Back In Town – Thin Lizzie
10. Shout It Out Loud – Kiss

1976’s FM Album Rock Top 10 Hit List

1. Do You Feel Like We Do – Peter Frampton
2. More Than a Feeling – Boston
3. Dream On – Aerosmith
4. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out – Bruce Springsteen
5. Love Is The Drug – Roxy Music
6. Kid Charlemagne – Steely Dan
7. Take The Money and Run – Steve Miller Band
8. Don’t Fear The Reaper – Blue Oyster Cult
9. Take It To The Limit – The Eagles
10. Still Crazy After All These Years – Paul Simon

More 1976 FM Album Rock

Baby, I Love Your Way – Peter Frampton
Golden Years – David Bowie
Locomotive Breath – Jethro Tull
Hurricane – Bob Dylan
Hot Stuff – Rolling Stones

1976’s Bubblegum Top 10 Hit List

1. Saturday Night – Bay City Rollers
2. Disco Duck – Rick Dees
3. Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da – The Beatles
4. Fly Away – John Denver
5. Shannon – Henry Gross
6. Mamma Mia – Abba
7. You’re My Best Friend – Queen
8. Convoy – C.W. McCall
9. Happy Days – Pratt & McClain
10. The Fonz Song – The Heyettes

PCM’s 1976 Top 10 Hit List

1. Play That Funky Music – Wild Cherry
2. December 1963 (Oh What a Night) -Four Seasons
3. Shake Your Booty – KC and the Sunshine Band
4. Afternoon Delight – The Starland Vocal Band
5. You’ll Never Find (Another Love Like Mine) – Lou Rawls
6. Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen
7. Rock and Roll All Night – Kiss
8. Summer – War
9. Take The Money and Run – Steve Miller Band
10. Turn The Beat Around – Vicki Sue Robinson