The Temptations: Every Year-End Hit
The Temptations has 14 entries on the year-end Top 100 between 1964 and 1973, covering 14 different songs. The biggest was “I Can't Get Next To You”, No. 3 of 1969.
Year-end entries1414 songs
Best finishNo. 3I Can't Get Next To You, 1969
First and last1964–197310 years
Year-end No. 1s0none yet
The Temptations’s biggest year was 1969, with 3 songs on the list.
Hits by year
19562025
All 14 entries
| Year | # | Song | Credit | Listen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 70 | The Way You Do The Things You Do | The Temptations | ▶♪ |
| 1965 | 10 | My Girl | The Temptations | ▶♪ |
| 1966 | 48 | Ain't Too Proud To Beg | The Temptations | ▶♪ |
| 1966 | 65 | Beauty Is Only Skin Deep | The Temptations | ▶♪ |
| 1967 | 56 | You're My Everything | The Temptations | ▶♪ |
| 1968 | 22 | I Wish It Would Rain | The Temptations | ▶♪ |
| 1969 | 3 | I Can't Get Next To You | The Temptations | ▶♪ |
| 1969 | 57 | Run Away Child, Running Wild | The Temptations | ▶♪ |
| 1969 | 87 | I'm Gonna Make You Love Me | Diana Ross and The Supremes and The Temptations | ▶♪ |
| 1970 | 24 | Ball Of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today) | The Temptations | ▶♪ |
| 1970 | 91 | Psychedelic Shack | The Temptations | ▶♪ |
| 1971 | 9 | Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) | The Temptations | ▶♪ |
| 1973 | 80 | Masterpiece | The Temptations | ▶♪ |
| 1973 | 100 | Papa Was A Rolling Stone | The Temptations | ▶♪ |
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Counts include songs where The Temptations was a lead or featured artist on the year-end Top 100 (1956–2025). A song that charted in two years counts once per year.