 stevie wonder ranks number four in our countdown of the forty biggest acts of the seventies the song you are the sunshine of my life we're getting closer to the top and now we're at number three here's a little democracy in action a seven man group who vote on the songs that they're going to record there are three singers and four instrumentalists and they have meetings periodically to nominate and elect new songs to learn for their concerts and recordings and it takes six or seven to get a new song in