I recently purchased on eBay a 62 page catalog entitled Fall/Winter 1985 Motown Catalog. Lots of interesting and valuable information included in it. It would be interesting to see similar data for 1971-1972 before Motown left Detroit.
The catalog had a listing of #1 Motown Hits of the 1960's so I decided to break it down by artist from the most to the least. Here is what I have accumulated.
There were a total of 48 songs that hit #1 in the 1960's.
First place with 12 songs - Supremes [[no surprise here)
Second place with 9 songs - Temptations
Third place with 5 songs - Stevie Wonder
Fourth place with 4 songs - Marvin Gaye
Fifth place with 3 songs - Miracles, Mary Wells
Sixth place with 2 songs - Martha & Vandellas, Four Tops, Junior Walker & All Stars, and Marvin & Tammi
Seventh place with 1 song - Marvelettes, Contours, Originals, Gladys Knight & Pips
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