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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)
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" 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

References

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