Which song moved the Bee Gees to the top of the music charts in 1971?
The Bee Gees moved the song 'How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?' to the top of the weekly music charts in 1971. It was written mainly by Barry and Robin Gibb. It was the lead and first single on the group's 1971 album 'Trafalgar'.
'How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?' was the Bee Gees' first US No. 1 single on the weekly Billboard Hot 100. It also reached number four on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. Billboard ranked the song as the No. 5 'Song of the Year for 1971'. As of 2012, the Bee Gees had nine singles reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart — which, according to Billboard, puts them in third place for the most number ones in history, after the Beatles and the Supremes.
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Terry2ts
Only made it big in US, Canada and back home in Australia. Surely reviewers would have insisted on which country the question relates. Is this another CW clone that can bypass the reviewers? Met Barry back in 1976 when he was recording at Compass Point studios in Nassau, Bahamas.
Howard Groopman
Beautiful song from their pre-disco period. I have a bunch of their albums, mostly the early ones.
Iancompat
"How you can mend a broken heart" never even made the UK charts at all. I think you're talking BS!
Iancompat
American chart! Huh!