The final of the group's three No. 1 singles was a brilliant but bittersweet success.
Sometimes the simplest songs convey the deepest truths, as seen in the first of the late Sly Stone and his Family Stone's three Billboard Hot 100 No. 1s.
The 1979 chart-topper was an unlikely late-career breakthrough for an artist with an absolutely bizarre career arc.
Flack transformed the song from a pop/folk tune to one that drew from a wide range of American music forms – pop, soul and jazz.
The late Maurice Williams' best-remembered pop song runs just 1:38. It is the shortest of the 1,174 singles that have reached No. 1 on the Hot 100.
The mid-'60s girl-group No. 1 was an absolute miracle of girl-group theater-pop.
The soft-rock ballad helped cement Soul's mid-'70s cross-platform stardom, but didn't necessarily fit in with his loftier musical inspirations.
O'Connor's lone No. 1 made for a singular pop culture moment -- but one the singer-songwriter had no interest in repeating.
The rock, pop and R&B legend's mid-career reinvention led to her first No. 1, and one of the greatest comebacks of the 20th century.
The singer-songwriter's lone Hot 100-topper was a fascinating mix of genres and moods that took advantage of a unique moment in chart history.
