Number 1 Singles in Ireland 1975 - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

This is a list of singles which have reached number one on the Irish Singles Chart

Irish Singles Chart

The Irish Singles Chart is Ireland's music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on behalf of the IRMA by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured...

in 1975.

Issue Date	Song	Artist
2 January	Lonely This Christmas Lonely This Christmas "Lonely This Christmas" was a popular single by the English glam rock band Mud, that topped the UK singles chart in 1974 and reached Christmas number one.-The song:...	Mud Mud (band) Mud were an English glam rock band, formed in February 1968, best remembered for their single "Tiger Feet", which was the UK's best-selling single of 1974...
9 January	Lonely This Christmas	Mud
16 January	Streets Of London Streets of London Streets of London may refer to:* "Streets of London" , 1969 song written by Ralph McTell* Streets of London , 1983 text adventure* The Streets of London * The Streets of London , 1929 crime film...	Ralph McTell Ralph McTell Ralph McTell is an English singer-songwriter and acoustic guitar player who has been an influential figure on the UK folk music scene since the 1960s....
23 January	Streets Of London	Ralph McTell
30 January	Ms. Grace	The Tymes The Tymes The Tymes are an American soul vocal group, who enjoyed equal success in the United Kingdom as their homeland. They share the distinction of being one of the few acts to have one and only one chart-topper in both the U.S...
6 February	January January (Pilot song) "January" is a pop rock song recorded by the Scottish rock band Pilot. Written by David Paton and produced by Alan Parsons, "January" was the sole number one single in the UK for Pilot, ironically spending all of its three week chart run at the top in February 1975. It also charted in the United...	Pilot Pilot (band) Pilot was a pop rock musical group, formed during 1973 in Edinburgh, Scotland by the former Bay City Rollers members, David Paton and Billy Lyall.-Career:...
13 February	January	Pilot
20 February	January	Pilot
27 February	January	Pilot
6 March	Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) "Make Me Smile " is a song written and recorded by Steve Harley. It was originally recorded by his band Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel on the album The Best Years of Our Lives and released as a single in 1975...	Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel are an English rock band from the early 1970s. Their music covers a range of styles from pop to progressive rock. Over the years they have had five albums in the UK Albums Chart and twelve singles in the UK Singles Chart.-Career:...
13 March	Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me	Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
20 March	If If (Bread song) "If" is a song written by American singer-songwriter David Gates in 1971. Originally popularized by his group Bread, the song charted at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 when released as a single in 1971. The song also spent three weeks at number one on the Easy Listening chart...	Telly Savalas Telly Savalas Aristotelis "Telly" Savalas was an American film and television actor and singer, whose career spanned four decades. Best known for playing the title role in the 1970s crime drama Kojak, Savalas was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Birdman of Alcatraz...
27 March	Bye Bye Baby Bye, Bye, Baby (Baby, Goodbye) "Bye, Bye, Baby " is a popular song written by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio, a member of The Four Seasons whose version of the song made it to #12 on the U.S. singles charts in 1965...	Bay City Rollers Bay City Rollers The Bay City Rollers were a Scottish pop band who were most popular in the 1970s. The British Hit Singles & Albums noted that they were "tartan teen sensations from Edinburgh", and were "the first of many acts heralded as the 'Biggest Group since The Beatles' and one of the most screamed-at...
3 April	Bye Bye Baby	Bay City Rollers
10 April	Bye Bye Baby	Bay City Rollers
17 April	Bye Bye Baby	Bay City Rollers
24 April	Love Is All	Red Hurley
1 May	Love Is All	Red Hurley
8 May	Oh Boy	Mud Mud (band) Mud were an English glam rock band, formed in February 1968, best remembered for their single "Tiger Feet", which was the UK's best-selling single of 1974...
15 May	Oh Boy	Mud
22 May	Oh Boy	Mud
29 May	Stand By Your Man Stand By Your Man "Stand by Your Man" is a song co-written by Tammy Wynette and Billy Sherrill and originally recorded by Tammy Wynette, released as a single in September 1968 in the USA...	Tammy Wynette Tammy Wynette Virginia Wynette Pugh, known professionally as Tammy Wynette , was an American country music singer-songwriter and one of the genre's best-known artists and biggest-selling female vocalists....
5 June	Stand By Your Man	Tammy Wynette
12 June	Stand By Your Man	Tammy Wynette
19 June	Three Steps To Heaven Three Steps to Heaven (song) "Three Steps to Heaven" is a 1960 single by Eddie Cochran. It became a posthumous UK number-one hit for Cochran following his death in a car crash. In the US it didn't reach the Billboard Hot 100...	Showaddywaddy Showaddywaddy Showaddywaddy are a 1970s pop group from Leicester, England. They specialised in revivals of hit songs from the 1950s and early 1960s, and dressed as Teddy Boys.-History:...
26 June	The Proud One The Proud One "The Proud One" is a 1975 single written by Bob Gaudio and Bob Crewe and performed by The Osmonds. The single was the group's final entry in the US Top 40, peaking at number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. It was their only number one on the Easy Listening chart where it spent one week...	The Osmonds The Osmonds The Osmonds are an American family music group with a long and varied career—a career that took them from singing barbershop music as children, to achieving success as teen-music idols, to producing a hit television show, and to continued success as solo and group performers...
3 July	I'm Not in Love I'm Not in Love "I'm Not in Love" is a song written by Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman of the English group 10cc, from the album The Original Soundtrack. The lyric reveals a narrator in denial about the title's ostensible theme.-The 10cc version:...	10cc 10cc 10cc are an English art rock band who achieved their greatest commercial success in the 1970s. The band initially consisted of four musicians -- Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley, and Lol Creme -- who had written and recorded together for some three years, before assuming the "10cc" name...
10 July	I'm Not in Love	10cc
17 July	Tears on My Pillow Tears on My Pillow (Johnny Nash song) Tears on My Pillow was a popular song for Johnny Nash.Written by Ernie Smith and produced by Johnny Nash, Tears on My Pillow was the sole number one single in the UK for Nash, spending a single week at the top of the charts in July 1975. New Zealand act covered this song in 1991, reaching #1 on...	Johnny Nash Johnny Nash John Lester "Johnny" Nash, Jr. is an American pop singer-songwriter, best known in the US for his 1972 hit, "I Can See Clearly Now". He was also the first non-Jamaican to record reggae music in Kingston, Jamaica.-Life and career:...
24 July	Tears on My Pillow	Johnny Nash
31 July	Give a Little Love	Bay City Rollers Bay City Rollers The Bay City Rollers were a Scottish pop band who were most popular in the 1970s. The British Hit Singles & Albums noted that they were "tartan teen sensations from Edinburgh", and were "the first of many acts heralded as the 'Biggest Group since The Beatles' and one of the most screamed-at...
7 August	Give a Little Love	Bay City Rollers
14 August	Barbados Barbados (song) "Barbados" was a UK number one single in August 1975 by Typically Tropical. "Barbados" entered the UK Singles Chart on 5 July 1975, and five weeks later was at #1 for one week. In total, "Barbados" spent eleven weeks in the chart. The track also reached #1 on the Irish Singles Chart and #20 on the...	Typically Tropical Typically Tropical Typically Tropical are a British band. They are best known for the song "Barbados".The band was actually a duo comprising Geraint Wyn Hughes and Jeffrey Calvert, who had met through Hughes' band, Quasar. They wrote and recorded songs at Morgan Studios, where Calvert worked with his father, when...
21 August	Barbados	Typically Tropical
28 August	I Can't Give You Anything (But My Love) I Can't Give You Anything (But My Love) "Can't Give You Anything " was a UK #1 single in August 1975 for three weeks by The Stylistics.After splitting from record producer Thom Bell in 1974, songwriters/producers Hugo & Luigi and George David Weiss took over, with arrangements by Van McCoy...	The Stylistics The Stylistics The Stylistics are a soul music vocal group, and were one of the best-known Philadelphia soul groups of the 1970s. They formed in 1968, and were composed of lead Russell Thompkins, Jr., Herbie Murrell, Airrion Love, James Smith, and James Dunn. All of their US hits were ballads, graced by the...
4 September	I Can't Give You Anything (But My Love)	The Stylistics
11 September	I Can't Give You Anything (But My Love)	The Stylistics
18 September	Sailing Sailing (Rod Stewart song) "Sailing" is a song written by Gavin Sutherland and recorded by The Sutherland Bros. Band . Released in June 1972, it can be found on their album 'Lifeboat' released in the same year....	Rod Stewart Rod Stewart Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE is a British singer-songwriter and musician, born and raised in North London, England and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English ancestry....
25 September	Moonlighting	Leo Sayer Leo Sayer Leo Sayer is a British singer-songwriter, musician, and entertainer whose singing career has spanned four decades. Sayer became a naturalised Australian citizen in 2009. Sayer was a top singles and album act on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1970s...
2 October	Moonlighting	Leo Sayer
9 October	Hold Me Close Hold me close "Hold Me Close" was a UK Singles Chart number-one hit single in October 1975 for three weeks by English singer David Essex.-Song profile:"Hold Me Close" is a cheery love song written by Essex and produced by Jeff Wayne. It was Essex's second and final UK #1. The B-side is titled "Good Ol' Rock and...	David Essex David Essex David Essex OBE is an English musician, singer-songwriter and actor. Since the 1970s, Essex has attained nineteen Top 40 singles in the UK , and sixteen Top 40 albums...
16 October	Hold Me Close	David Essex
23 October	Rhinestone Cowboy Rhinestone Cowboy (song) "Rhinestone Cowboy" is the title of a song written by Larry Weiss and most famously recorded by American country music singer Glen Campbell. The song enjoyed immense popularity with both country and pop audiences when it was released in 1975....	Glen Campbell Glen Campbell Glen Travis Campbell is an American country music singer, guitarist, television host and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for hosting a variety show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television.During his 50 years in show...
30 October	Rhinestone Cowboy	Glen Campbell
6 November	Rhinestone Cowboy	Glen Campbell
13 November	Rhinestone Cowboy	Glen Campbell
20 November	Rhinestone Cowboy	Glen Campbell
27 November	Rhinestone Cowboy	Glen Campbell
4 December	Combine Harvester	Brendan Grace
11 December	Imagine Imagine (song) "Imagine" is a song written and performed by the English musician John Lennon. It is the opening track on his album Imagine, released in 1971...	John Lennon John Lennon John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
18 December	Bohemian Rhapsody Bohemian Rhapsody "Bohemian Rhapsody" is a song by the British rock band Queen. It was written by Freddie Mercury for the band's 1975 album A Night at the Opera...	Queen Queen (band) Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury , Brian May , John Deacon , and Roger Taylor...
25 December	Bohemian Rhapsody	Queen

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