| 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] It's Only Make Believe [article]](./wp/cache/img/JMGSong_17830.jpg) | 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] You Don't Have to Say You Love Me [article]](./wp/cache/img/JMGSong_14346.jpg) | 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] Kentucky Rain [article]](./wp/cache/img/JMGSong_14341.jpg) | 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] Coal Miner's Daughter [article]](./wp/cache/img/JMGSong_26457.jpg) | 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 | |