| Cover | | Date  | Title • Artist  Album | Points  | Charts Peaks | Comment |
|---|
| 1. | 11/1970 | | 378
 | US ✫1 UK ✫1 US AC 2 | written by Irwin Levine, L. Russell Brown |
![Bridge Over Troubled Water [article] Bridge Over Troubled Water [article]](./wp/cache/img/JMGSong_37782.jpg) | 2. | 02/1970 | | 377
 | US ✫1 UK ✫1 US AC ✫1 | [Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #47] written by Paul Simon |
![Let It Be [article] Let It Be [article]](./wp/cache/img/JMGSong_41432.jpg) | 3. | 03/1970 | | 326
 | US ✫1 UK 2 US AC ✫1 | [Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #20] written by John Lennon, Paul McCartney |
![(They Long to Be) Close to You [article] (They Long to Be) Close to You [article]](./wp/cache/img/JMGSong_41797.jpg) | 4. | 06/1970 | | 302
 | US ✫1 UK 6 US AC ✫1 | written by Burt Bacharach, Hal David |
![Ain't No Mountain High Enough [article] Ain't No Mountain High Enough [article]](./wp/cache/img/JMGSong_11776.jpg) | 5. | 08/1970 | | 301
 | US ✫1 UK 6 US AC 6 US R&B ✫1 | written by Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson [Motown 1169] |
| 6. | 05/1970 | | 298
 | US 9 UK ✫1 US AC ✫1 US country 37 | written by Baker Knight |
![Cracklin' Rosie [article] Cracklin' Rosie [article]](./wp/cache/img/JMGSong_30262.jpg) | 7. | 08/1970 | | 296
 | US ✫1 UK 3 US AC 2 | written by Neil Diamond |
| 8. | 11/1970 | | 283
 | US 3 UK 3 US AC 5 US country ✫1 | written by Joe South |
![Make It with You [article] Make It with You [article]](./wp/cache/img/JMGSong_6763.jpg) | 9. | 06/1970 | | 281
 | US ✫1 UK 5 US AC 4 | |
| 10. | 04/1970 | | 275
 | US ✫1 UK 6 US AC ✫1 US country 39 | |
| 11. | 03/1970 | | 232
 | US 2 UK 7 US AC 6 | |
| 12. | 11/1970 | | 223
 | US 10 UK 4 US AC ✫1 | |
![It's Only Make Believe [article] It's Only Make Believe [article]](./wp/cache/img/JMGSong_17830.jpg) | 13. | 09/1970 | | 207
 | US 10 UK 4 US AC 2 US country 3 | written by Jack Nance, Conway Twitty |
![We've Only Just Begun [article] We've Only Just Begun [article]](./wp/cache/img/JMGSong_41798.jpg) | 14. | 09/1970 | | 199
 | US 2 UK 28 US AC ✫1 | [Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #405] written by Paul Williams, Roger Nichols |
| 15. | 10/1970 | | 196
 | US 2 US AC ✫1 US R&B 4 | written by Burt Bacharach, Hal David [Bell 940] |
| 16. | 01/1970 | | 182
 | US 19 UK 4 US AC 4 US country 2 | written by Jimmy Webb |
![The Long and Winding Road/For You Blue [article] The Long and Winding Road/For You Blue [article]](./wp/cache/img/JMGSong_41433.jpg) | 17. | 05/1970 | | 179
 | US ✫1 US AC 2 | written by John Lennon, Paul McCartney |
| 18. | 04/1970 | | 168
 | US 13 UK 5 US AC ✫1 | |
| 19. | 12/1970 | | 166
 | US 15 UK 5 US AC 5 | [recorded at st. paul's chapel, columbia university] written by John Newton [Elektra 45709] |
| 20. | 09/1970 | | 162
 | US 3 UK 42 US AC 7 | [Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #227] written by James Taylor |
| 21. | 08/1970 | | 161
 | US 5 UK 28 US AC 2 | |
| 22. | 12/1970 | | 157
 | US 21 UK 6 US AC 2 US country 9 | US: B-side to I Really Don't Want to Know written by Dallas Frazier |
![If You Could Read My Mind [article] If You Could Read My Mind [article]](./wp/cache/img/JMGSong_18159.jpg) | 23. | 12/1970 | | 154
 | US 5 UK 30 US AC ✫1 | written by Gordon Lightfoot |
![You Don't Have to Say You Love Me [article] You Don't Have to Say You Love Me [article]](./wp/cache/img/JMGSong_14346.jpg) | 24. | 10/1970 | | 154
 | US 11 UK 9 US AC ✫1 US country 56 | written by Pino Donaggio, Vito Pallavicini, Vicki Wickham, Simon Napier-Bell |
| 25. | 07/1970 | | 145
 | US 8 UK 23 US AC ✫1 US country 10 | |
| 26. | 02/1970 | | 131
 | US 26 UK 6 US AC 31 US R&B 11 | written by Stevie Wonder, Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy [Tamla 54191] |
| 27. | 06/1970 | | 120
 | US 14 UK 16 US AC ✫1 | based on the last movement of beethoven's ninth symphony |
| 28. | 08/1970 | | 116
 | US 14 UK 16 US AC 2 | written by Carlo Donida, Mogol, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller |
![Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? [article] Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? [article]](./wp/cache/img/JMGSong_8583.jpg) | 29. | 11/1970 | | 112
 | US 7 US AC 5 | |
| 30. | 08/1970 | | 107
 | US 32 UK 9 US AC 5 US country 57 | |
![Kentucky Rain [article] Kentucky Rain [article]](./wp/cache/img/JMGSong_14341.jpg) | 31. | 02/1970 | | 104
 | US 16 UK 21 US AC 3 US country 31 | written by Eddie Rabbitt |
| 32. | 12/1970 | | 100
 | US 11 US AC ✫1 US country 7 | written by Mac Davis |
| 33. | 02/1970 | | 98
 | US 9 US AC 2 | |
| 34. | 06/1970 | | 95
 | US 9 US AC ✫1 | written by Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil |
| 35. | 01/1970 | | 87
 | US 14 UK 39 US AC 4 | featuring Eva Graham written by Melanie |
| 36. | 09/1970 | | 87
 | US 10 US AC 2 | |
| 37. | 03/1970 | | 81
 | US 13 US AC ✫1 | |
| 38. | 12/1970 | | 66
 | US 21 US AC 2 US country 23 | hit for Les Paul & Mary Ford in 1954 written by Don Robertson, Howard Barnes |
| 39. | 09/1970 | | 65
 | US 47 UK 22 US AC 2 | |
| 40. | 07/1970 | | 63
 | US 52 UK 32 US AC 3 US country 5 | |