Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1972

"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" by Roberta Flack was the number one song of 1972. Al Green had three songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1972.

This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1972.[1] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated December 30, 1972, is based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of December 4, 1971 through November 18, 1972.

No.  | Title  | Artist(s)

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1 | "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" | Roberta Flack
2 | "Alone Again (Naturally)" | Gilbert O'Sullivan
3 | "American Pie" | Don McLean
4 | "Without You" | Harry Nilsson
5 | "The Candy Man" | Sammy Davis Jr.
6 | "I Gotcha" | Joe Tex
7 | "Lean on Me" | Bill Withers
8 | "Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me" | Mac Davis
9 | "Brand New Key" | Melanie
10 | "Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast" | Wayne Newton
11 | "Let's Stay Together" | Al Green
12 | "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" | Looking Glass
13 | "Oh Girl" | The Chi-Lites
14 | "Nice to Be with You" | Gallery
15 | "My Ding-a-Ling" | Chuck Berry
16 | "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right" | Luther Ingram
17 | "Heart of Gold" | Neil Young
18 | "Betcha by Golly, Wow" | The Stylistics
19 | "I'll Take You There" | The Staple Singers
20 | "Ben" | Michael Jackson
21 | "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" | Robert John
22 | "Outa-Space" | Billy Preston
23 | "Slippin' into Darkness" | War
24 | "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" | The Hollies
25 | "How Do You Do" | Mouth & MacNeal
26 | "Song Sung Blue" | Neil Diamond
27 | "A Horse with No Name" | America
28 | "Popcorn" | Hot Butter
29 | "Everybody Plays the Fool" | The Main Ingredient
30 | "Precious and Few" | Climax
31 | "(Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All" | The 5th Dimension
32 | "Nights in White Satin" | The Moody Blues
33 | "Go All the Way" | Raspberries
34 | "Too Late to Turn Back Now" | Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
35 | "Back Stabbers" | The O'Jays
36 | "Down by the Lazy River" | The Osmonds
37 | "Sunshine" | Jonathan Edwards
38 | "Starting All Over Again" | Mel and Tim
39 | "Day After Day" | Badfinger
40 | "Rocket Man" | Elton John
41 | "Rockin' Robin" | Michael Jackson
42 | "Beautiful Sunday" | Daniel Boone
43 | "Scorpio" | Dennis Coffey
44 | "Morning Has Broken" | Cat Stevens
45 | "City of New Orleans" | Arlo Guthrie
46 | "Garden Party" | Ricky Nelson
47 | "I Can See Clearly Now" | Johnny Nash
48 | "Burning Love" | Elvis Presley
49 | "Clean Up Woman" | Betty Wright
50 | "Hold Your Head Up" | Argent
51 | "Jungle Fever" | The Chakachas
52 | "Everything I Own" | Bread
53 | "In the Rain" | The Dramatics
54 | "Look What You Done for Me" | Al Green
55 | "The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A." | Donna Fargo
56 | "Bang a Gong (Get it On)" | T. Rex
57 | "Mother and Child Reunion" | Paul Simon
58 | "Where Is the Love" | Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway
59 | "I'm Still in Love with You" | Al Green
60 | "Layla" | Derek and the Dominos
61 | "Day Dreaming" | Aretha Franklin
62 | "The Way of Love" | Cher
63 | "Black and White" | Three Dog Night
64 | "Sylvia's Mother" | Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show
65 | "Hurting Each Other" | The Carpenters
66 | "Coconut" | Harry Nilsson
67 | "Puppy Love" | Donny Osmond
68 | "You Don't Mess Around with Jim" | Jim Croce
69 | "Hot Rod Lincoln" | Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
70 | "A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done" | Sonny & Cher
71 | "Joy" | Apollo 100
72 | "Anticipation" | Carly Simon
73 | "Never Been to Spain" | Three Dog Night
74 | "Kiss an Angel Good Mornin'" | Charley Pride
75 | "School's Out" | Alice Cooper
76 | "Saturday in the Park" | Chicago
77 | "Drowning in the Sea of Love" | Joe Simon
78 | "Use Me" | Bill Withers
79 | "Family Affair" | Sly & the Family Stone
80 | "Troglodyte (Cave Man)" | The Jimmy Castor Bunch
81 | "The Witch Queen of New Orleans" | Redbone
82 | "Freddie's Dead" | Curtis Mayfield
83 | "Power of Love" | Joe Simon
84 | "Ain't Understanding Mellow" | Jerry Butler & Brenda Lee Eager
85 | "Taxi" | Harry Chapin
86 | "Don't Say You Don't Remember" | Beverly Bremers
87 | "Sealed with a Kiss" | Bobby Vinton
88 | "I Saw the Light" | Todd Rundgren
89 | "Motorcycle Mama" | Sailcat
90 | "Day by Day" | Original Cast of Godspell
91 | "Roundabout" | Yes
92 | "Doctor My Eyes" | Jackson Browne
93 | "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)" | The New Seekers
94 | "Vincent" | Don McLean
95 | "Baby Let Me Take You (In My Arms)" | The Detroit Emeralds
96 | "Speak to the Sky" | Rick Springfield
97 | "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)" | The Hillside Singers
98 | "Walkin' in the Rain with the One I Love" | Love Unlimited
99 | "Get on the Good Foot" | James Brown
100 | "Pop That Thang" | The Isley Brothers

## See also

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* 1972 in music
* List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1972
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1972

## References

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1. ^ "Top Pop 100 Singles" (PDF). Billboard Talent in Action. 1972-12-30. p. TA-20. Retrieved 2020-12-06.

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