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" 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)
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

References

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