| Cover | | Date   | Title • Artist
Album | Points
| Charts Peaks | Comment |
|---|
| 1. | 05/1970 | | 298
 | US 9
UK ✫1
US AC ✫1
US country 37 | written by Baker Knight |
| 2. | 11/1970 | | 283
| US 3
UK 3
US AC 5
US country ✫1 | written by Joe South |
| 3. | 04/1970 | | 275
| US ✫1
UK 6
US AC ✫1
US country 39 | |
![It's Only Make Believe [article]](./wp/cache/img/JMGSong_17830.jpg "It's Only Make Believe [article]") | 4. | 09/1970 | | 207
| US 10
UK 4
US AC 2
US country 3 | written by Jack Nance, Conway Twitty |
| 5. | 01/1970 | | 182
| US 19
UK 4
US AC 4
US country 2 | written by Jimmy Webb |
| 6. | 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 |
![You Don't Have to Say You Love Me [article]](./wp/cache/img/JMGSong_14346.jpg "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me [article]") | 7. | 10/1970 | | 154
| US 11
UK 9
US AC ✫1
US country 56 | written by Pino Donaggio, Vito Pallavicini, Vicki Wickham, Simon Napier-Bell |
| 8. | 07/1970 | | 145
| US 8
UK 23
US AC ✫1
US country 10 | |
| 9. | 08/1970 | | 107
| US 32
UK 9
US AC 5
US country 57 | |
![Kentucky Rain [article]](./wp/cache/img/JMGSong_14341.jpg "Kentucky Rain [article]") | 10. | 02/1970 | | 104
| US 16
UK 21
US AC 3
US country 31 | written by Eddie Rabbitt |
| 11. | 12/1970 | | 100
| US 11
US AC ✫1
US country 7 | written by Mac Davis |
| 12. | 08/1970 | | 98
| US 11
US country ✫1 | written by Kris Kristofferson
written by Kris Kristofferson |
| 13. | 04/1970 | | 94
| US 19
UK 21
US country 3 | |
| 14. | 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 |
| 15. | 02/1970 | | 65
| US 23
US country ✫1 | |
| 16. | 07/1970 | | 63
| US 52
UK 32
US AC 3
US country 5 | |
| 17. | 01/1970 | | 63
| US 12
US country 56 | as Joe South and The Believers
written by Joe South |
| 18. | 02/1970 | | 48
| US 20
US country 41 | |
| 19. | 01/1970 | | 40
| US 36
US country 2 | written by Tim Hardin |
| 20. | 09/1970 | | 38
| UK 32
US country 4 | |
| 21. | 03/1970 | | 37
| US 42
US country ✫1 | |
| 22. | 08/1970 | | 35
| US 46
US country ✫1 | written by Kris Kristofferson |
| 23. | 04/1970 | | 34
| US 40
US AC 7
US country 25 | written by traditional, Edwin Hawkins |
| 24. | 12/1970 | | 33
| US 54
US country ✫1 | |
| 25. | 07/1970 | | 33
| US 60
US country ✫1 | |
| 26. | 05/1970 | | 32
| US 32
US country 58 | |
| 27. | 03/1970 | | 31
| UK 32
US country 10 | |
| 28. | 11/1970 | | 31
| US 47
US country 4 | |
| 29. | 03/1970 | | 31
| US 70
US country ✫1 | |
| 30. | 10/1970 | | 30
| US 71
US country ✫1 | |
| 31. | 02/1970 | | 29
| US 46
US AC 7
US country 27 | written by Billy Sherrill, Curly Putman |
| 32. | 10/1970 | | 29
| US 81
US country ✫1 | |
![Coal Miner's Daughter [article]](./wp/cache/img/JMGSong_26457.jpg "Coal Miner's Daughter [article]") | 33. | 12/1970 | | 28
| US 83
US country ✫1 | written by Loretta Lynn |
| 34. | 01/1970 | | 28
| US 87
US country ✫1 | written by Brook Benton, Belford Hendricks, Clyde Otis |
| 35. | 07/1970 | | 28
| US 87
US country ✫1 | |
| 36. | 08/1970 | | 27
| US 32
US country 57 | US: B-side to I've Lost You |
| 37. | 02/1970 | | 27
| US 92
US country ✫1 | as Merle Haggard & the Strangers
written by Merle Haggard |
| 38. | 10/1970 | | 27
| US 92
US country ✫1 | written by Ann Booth, Duke Goff, Dan Hoffman
[Epic 10653] |
| 39. | 06/1970 | | 26
| US 97
US country ✫1 | written by Norro Wilson, Carmol Taylor, Billy Sherrill
[Epic 10612] |
| 40. | 01/1970 | | 26
| US 63
US country 6 | |
