| | Pop | R&B | Date | Label | Artist | Song | Composer |
|---|
| | 13 | 1 | Mar-1970 | Atlantic | Aretha Franklin | Call Me | Aretha Franklin |
| | 45 | 6 | Nov-1970 | ABC | B.B. King | Chains And Things | Dave Clark, Riley King |
| | 15 | 3 | Jan-1970 | BluesWay | B.B. King | The Thrill Is Gone | Rick Darnell, Roy Hawkins |
| | 4 | 1 | Jan-1970 | Cotillion | Brook Benton | Rainy Night in Georgia | Tony Joe White |
| | 29 | 3 | Oct-1970 | Curtom | Curtis Mayfield | (Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below | Curtis Mayfield |
| | 1 | 1 | Jul-1970 | Motown | Diana Ross | Ain't No Mountain High Enough | Ashford-Simpson |
| | 6 | 17 | Jan-1970 | Scepter | Dionne Warwick | I'll Never Fall In Love Again | Burt Bacharach, Hal David |
| | 76 | 30 | Feb-1970 | Philly Int'l | Dusty Springfield | Silly, Silly Fool | Gamble-Huff |
| | 1 | 3 | Jun-1970 | Motown/Gordy | Edwin Starr | WAR | Whitfield-Strong |
| | 11 | 4 | Aug-1970 | Motown | Four Tops | Still Water | Robinson-Wilson |
| | 2 | 20 | May-1970 | Invictus | Freda Payne | Band of Gold | Holland-Dozier-Holland |
| | 9 | 1 | Oct-1970 | Motown | Gladys Knight & The Pips | If I Were Your Woman | Ware-Sawyer-McMurray |
| | 51 | 20 | Mar-1970 | King | James Brown | Funky Drummer | James Brown |
| | 32 | 8 | May-1970 | King | James Brown | Brother Rapp | James Brown |
| | 15 | 2 | Aug-1970 | King | James Brown | Get Up, I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine | Brown-Byrd-Lenhoff |
| | 40 | 6 | Jan-1970 | King | James Brown | Let A Man Come in and Do the Popcorn Pt 2 | James Brown |
| | 13 | 1 | Oct-1970 | King | James Brown | Super Bad | James Brown |
| | 32 | 3 | Feb-1970 | King | James Brown | It's a New Day | James Brown |
| | 39 | | Jan-1970 | JAD | Johnny Nash | Cupid | S Cooke |
| | 7 | 20 | Aug-1970 | Rare Earth | Rare Earth | I Know I'm Losing You | Holland-Whitfield-Grant |
| | 1 | 1 | Jan-1970 | Epic | Sly & The Family Stone | Thank You | S. Stewart |
| | 38 | 14 | Jun-1970 | Epic | Sly & The Family Stone | I Want To Take You Higher | S. Stewart |
| | 1 | 1 | Sep-1970 | Motown/Tamla | Smokey Robinson & The Miracles | The Tears Of A Clown | Cosby-Robinson-Wonder |
| | 3 | 1 | Jun-1970 | Motown/Tamla | Stevie Wonder | Signed Sealed & Delivered | Wonder-Garrett-Wright-Hardaway |
| | 10 | 3 | Jan-1970 | Philly Groove | The Delfonics | La - La - Means I Love You | Thom Bell/William Hart |
| | 40 | 8 | Jun-1970 | Philly Groove | The Delfonics | Trying To Make A Fool of Me | Thom Bell/William Hart |
| | 2 | 4 | Nov-1970 | Bell | The Fifth Dimension | One Less Bell To Answer | Bacharach-David |
| | 1 | 1 | May-1970 | Motown | The Jackson 5 | The Love You Save | Perren-Mizell-Gordy-Richards |
| | 1 | 1 | Sep-1970 | Motown | The Jackson 5 | I'll Be There | Gordy-West-Davis-Hutch |
| | 1 | 1 | Feb-1970 | Motown | The Jackson 5 | ABC | Perren-Mizell-Gordy-Richards |
| | 3 | 1 | May-1970 | Stang | The Moments | Love On a Two-Way Street | Keyes/Robinson |
| | 12 | 4 | Jan-1970 | Motown | The Originals | The Bells | Gaye-Gaye-Gordy-Stover |
| | 14 | 4 | Jun-1970 | Motown/VIP | The Spinners | It's A Shame | Wonder-Garrett-Wright |
| | 10 | 5 | Feb-1970 | Motown | The Supremes | Up The Ladder To The Roof | DiMarco-Wilson |
| | 7 | 1 | Oct-1970 | Motown | The Supremes | Stoned Love | Wilson-Samoht |
| | 3 | 2 | May-1970 | Motown/Tamla | The Temptations | Ball Of Confusion | Whitfield-Strong |
| | 3 | 1 | May-1970 | Dakar | Tyrone Davis | Turn Back the Hands of Time | Daniels-Thompson |
