Below, we’re taking a look at the Top 50 Songs of 1974 as voted by UCR staff ... going to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the Hot Soul Singles chart within just a few months.

Two years later, in August 1958, the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart began. At the end of 1958, Billboard printed a recap of the year’s biggest songs for the first time (that year also ...