| Top 40 Hits of October 1970 |
| 1 |
Freda Payne | Band Of Gold |
| 2 |
Deep Purple | Black Night |
| 3 |
Desmond Dekker | You Can Get It If You Really Want |
| 4 |
Matthew's Southern Comfort | Woodstock |
| 5 |
Tremeloes | Me And My Life |
| 6 |
Black Sabbath | Paranoid |
| 7 |
Clarence Carter | Patches |
| 8 |
Diana Ross | Ain't No Mountain High Enough |
| 9 |
Carpenters | (They Long To Be) Close To You |
| 10 |
Bobby Brown | Montego Bay |
| 11 |
Temptations | Ball Of Confusion |
| 12 |
Poppy Family | Which Way You Goin' Billy? |
| 13 |
Horace Faith | Black Pearl |
| 14 |
Four Tops | Still Water |
| 15 |
Elvis Presley | The Wonder Of You |
| 16 |
Chairmen Of The Board | Give Me Just A Little More Time |
| 17 |
Hollies | Gasoline Alley Bred |
| 18 |
Family | Strange Band |
| 19 |
Melanie | Ruby Tuesday |
| 20 |
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles | Tears Of A Clown |
| 21 |
Des O'Connor | The Tip Of My Fingers |
| 22 |
Blue Mink | Our World |
| 23 |
Rattles | The Witch |
| 24 |
Creedence Clearwater Revival | Long As I Can See The Light |
| 25 |
Edwin Starr | War |
| 26 |
Martha & The Vandellas | Jimmy Mack |
| 27 |
Aretha Franklin | Don't Play That Song |
| 28 |
Bread | Make It With You |
| 29 |
Three Dog Night | Mama Told Me Not To Come |
| 30 |
Roger Whittaker | New World In The Morning |
| 31 |
Hot Chocolate | Love Is Life |
| 32 |
Jimmy Ruffin | It's Wonderful |
| 33 |
Dorothy Squires | My Way |
| 34 |
Gene Pitney | Shady Lady |
| 35 |
Jimmy Cliff | Wild World |
| 36 |
Julie Felix | Heaven Is Here |
| 37 |
Don Fardon | Indian Reservation |
| 38 |
Shirley Bassey | Something |
| 39 |
Engelbert Humperdinck | Sweetheart |
| 40 |
White Plains | Julie Do Ya Love Me? |
