Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1971

Three Dog Night had two songs on the Year-End Hot 100, including "Joy to the World", the number one song of 1971. The Carpenters had three songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1971.

This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 singles of 1971.[1] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated December 25, 1971, is based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of January 2 through November 27, 1971.

No.  | Title  | Artist(s)

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1 | "Joy to the World" | Three Dog Night
2 | "Maggie May"/"Reason to Believe" | Rod Stewart
3 | "It's Too Late"/"I Feel the Earth Move" | Carole King
4 | "One Bad Apple" | The Osmonds
5 | "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" | Bee Gees
6 | "Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian)" | Raiders
7 | "Go Away Little Girl" | Donny Osmond
8 | "Take Me Home, Country Roads" | John Denver
9 | "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)" | The Temptations
10 | "Knock Three Times" | Tony Orlando and Dawn
11 | "Me and Bobby McGee" | Janis Joplin
12 | "Tired of Being Alone" | Al Green
13 | "Want Ads" | Honey Cone
14 | "Smiling Faces Sometimes" | The Undisputed Truth
15 | "Treat Her Like a Lady" | Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
16 | "Brown Sugar" | The Rolling Stones
17 | "You've Got a Friend" | James Taylor
18 | "Mr. Big Stuff" | Jean Knight
19 | "Do You Know What I Mean" | Lee Michaels
20 | "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" | Joan Baez
21 | "What's Going On" | Marvin Gaye
22 | "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" | Paul & Linda McCartney
23 | "Ain't No Sunshine" | Bill Withers
24 | "Signs" | Five Man Electrical Band
25 | "She's a Lady" | Tom Jones
26 | "I've Found Someone of My Own" | The Free Movement
27 | "Superstar" | Murray Head & The Trinidad Singers
28 | "Amos Moses" | Jerry Reed
29 | "Temptation Eyes" | The Grass Roots
30 | "Superstar" | The Carpenters
31 | "My Sweet Lord"/"Isn't It A Pity" | George Harrison
32 | "Sweet and Innocent" | Donny Osmond
33 | "Put Your Hand in the Hand" | Ocean
34 | "Chick-A-Boom (Don't Ya Jes' Love It)" | Daddy Dewdrop
35 | "For All We Know" | The Carpenters
36 | "If You Could Read My Mind" | Gordon Lightfoot
37 | "Help Me Make It Through the Night" | Sammi Smith
38 | "Rainy Days and Mondays" | The Carpenters
39 | "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves" | Cher
40 | "Never Can Say Goodbye" | The Jackson 5
41 | "Rose Garden" | Lynn Anderson
42 | "Don't Pull Your Love" | Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds
43 | "It Don't Come Easy" | Ringo Starr
44 | "Mr. Bojangles" | Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
45 | "I Love You for All Seasons" | The Fuzz
46 | "Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get" | The Dramatics
47 | "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be" | Carly Simon
48 | "If You Really Love Me" | Stevie Wonder
49 | "Spanish Harlem" | Aretha Franklin
50 | "I Don't Know How to Love Him" | Helen Reddy
51 | "Yo-Yo" | The Osmonds
52 | "Bridge over Troubled Water" | Aretha Franklin
53 | "Doesn't Somebody Want to Be Wanted" | The Partridge Family
54 | "Draggin' the Line" | Tommy James
55 | "Proud Mary" | Ike & Tina Turner
56 | "Beginnings"/"Colour My World" | Chicago
57 | "Stay Awhile" | The Bells
58 | "Sweet City Woman" | The Stampeders
59 | "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo" | Lobo
60 | "Another Day"/"Oh Woman, Oh Why" | Paul McCartney
61 | "If" | Bread
62 | "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" | Marvin Gaye
63 | "One Toke Over the Line" | Brewer & Shipley
64 | "She's Not Just Another Woman" | 8th Day
65 | "Bring the Boys Home" | Freda Payne
66 | "I Just Want to Celebrate" | Rare Earth
67 | "Never Ending Song of Love" | Delaney & Bonnie & Friends
68 | "Easy Loving" | Freddie Hart
69 | "Liar" | Three Dog Night
70 | "Stick-Up" | Honey Cone
71 | "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" | Mac and Katie Kissoon
72 | "(Where Do I Begin?) Love Story" | Andy Williams
73 | "Wild World" | Cat Stevens
74 | "When You're Hot, You're Hot" | Jerry Reed
75 | "Funky Nassau" | The Beginning of the End
76 | "If Not for You" | Olivia Newton-John
77 | "Groove Me" | King Floyd
78 | "Watching Scotty Grow" | Bobby Goldsboro
79 | "Woodstock" | Matthews Southern Comfort
80 | "Amazing Grace" | Judy Collins
81 | "I Hear You Knocking" | Dave Edmunds
82 | "Lonely Days" | Bee Gees
83 | "Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again" | The Fortunes
84 | "Won't Get Fooled Again" | The Who
85 | "Trapped By a Thing Called Love" | Denise LaSalle
86 | "Mama's Pearl" | The Jackson 5
87 | "Timothy" | The Buoys
88 | "I Woke Up In Love This Morning" | The Partridge Family
89 | "Theme from Shaft" | Isaac Hayes
90 | "If I Were Your Woman" | Gladys Knight & the Pips
91 | "I Am...I Said" | Neil Diamond
92 | "The Wedding Song (There Is Love)" | Paul Stookey
93 | "Don't Knock My Love" | Wilson Pickett
94 | "Love Her Madly" | The Doors
95 | "Here Comes the Sun" | Richie Havens
96 | "Sweet Mary" | Wadsworth Mansion
97 | "Right on the Tip of My Tongue" | Brenda & the Tabulations
98 | "One Less Bell to Answer" | The 5th Dimension
99 | "Riders on the Storm" | The Doors
100 | "It's Impossible" | Perry Como

## See also

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* 1971 in music
* List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1971
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1971

## References

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1. ^ "Top Pop 100 Singles" (PDF). Billboard \- Talent in Action (supplement). 1971-12-25. p. TA-36. Retrieved 2020-05-31.

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