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Tony Orlando and Dawn had two songs on the Year-End Hot 100, including " Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree", the number one song of 1973.
Stevie Wonder had three songs on the Year-End Hot 100.
War had three songs on the Year-End Hot 100.

This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1973. [1] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated December 29, 1973, is based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of November 25, 1972 through November 17, 1973.

No. Title Artist(s)
1 " Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" Tony Orlando and Dawn
2 " Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" Jim Croce
3 " Killing Me Softly with His Song" Roberta Flack
4 " Let's Get It On" Marvin Gaye
5 " My Love" Paul McCartney & Wings
6 " Why Me" Kris Kristofferson
7 " Crocodile Rock" Elton John
8 " Will It Go Round in Circles" Billy Preston
9 " You're So Vain" Carly Simon
10 " Touch Me in the Morning" Diana Ross
11 " The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" Vicki Lawrence
12 " Playground in My Mind" Clint Holmes
13 " Brother Louie" Stories
14 " Delta Dawn" Helen Reddy
15 " Me and Mrs. Jones" Billy Paul
16 " Frankenstein" The Edgar Winter Group
17 " Drift Away" Dobie Gray
18 " Little Willy" Sweet
19 " You Are the Sunshine of My Life" Stevie Wonder
20 " Half-Breed" Cher
21 " That Lady" The Isley Brothers
22 " Pillow Talk" Sylvia Robinson
23 " We're an American Band" Grand Funk Railroad
24 " Right Place Wrong Time" Dr. John
25 " Wildflower" Skylark
26 " Superstition" Stevie Wonder
27 " Loves Me Like a Rock" Paul Simon
28 " The Morning After" Maureen McGovern
29 " Rocky Mountain High" John Denver
30 " Stuck in the Middle with You" Stealers Wheel
31 " Shambala" Three Dog Night
32 " Love Train" The O'Jays
33 " I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby" Barry White
34 " Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose" Tony Orlando and Dawn
35 " Keep on Truckin'" Eddie Kendricks
36 " Danny's Song" Anne Murray
37 " Dancing in the Moonlight" King Harvest
38 " Monster Mash" Bobby 'Boris' Pickett
39 " Natural High" Bloodstone
40 " Diamond Girl" Seals and Crofts
41 " Long Train Runnin'" The Doobie Brothers
42 " Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" George Harrison
43 " If You Want Me to Stay" Sly & the Family Stone
44 " Daddy's Home" Jermaine Jackson
45 " Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)" Gladys Knight & the Pips
46 " I'm Doin' Fine Now" New York City
47 " Could It Be I'm Falling in Love" The Spinners
48 " Daniel" Elton John
49 " Midnight Train to Georgia" Gladys Knight & the Pips
50 " Smoke on the Water" Deep Purple
51 " The Cover of "Rolling Stone"" Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show
52 " Behind Closed Doors" Charlie Rich
53 " Your Mama Don't Dance" Loggins and Messina
54 " Feelin' Stronger Every Day" Chicago
55 " The Cisco Kid" War
56 " Live and Let Die" Paul McCartney & Wings
57 " Oh, Babe, What Would You Say?" Hurricane Smith
58 " I Believe in You (You Believe in Me)" Johnnie Taylor
59 " Sing" The Carpenters
60 " Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got)" The Four Tops
61 " Dueling Banjos" Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell
62 " Higher Ground" Stevie Wonder
63 " Here I Am (Come and Take Me)" Al Green
64 " My Maria" B.W. Stevenson
65 " Superfly" Curtis Mayfield
66 " Last Song" Edward Bear
67 " Get Down" Gilbert O'Sullivan
68 " Reelin' in the Years" Steely Dan
69 " Hocus Pocus" Focus
70 " Yesterday Once More" The Carpenters
71 " Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" Bette Midler
72 " Clair" Gilbert O'Sullivan
73 " Do It Again" Steely Dan
74 " Kodachrome" Paul Simon
75 " Why Can't We Live Together" Timmy Thomas
76 " Do You Wanna Dance?" Bette Midler
77 " So Very Hard to Go" Tower of Power
78 " Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu" Johnny Rivers
79 " Ramblin' Man" The Allman Brothers Band
80 " Masterpiece" The Temptations
81 " Peaceful" Helen Reddy
82 " One of a Kind (Love Affair)" The Spinners
83 " Funny Face" Donna Fargo
84 " Funky Worm" Ohio Players
85 " Angie" The Rolling Stones
86 " Jambalaya (On the Bayou)" Blue Ridge Rangers
87 " Don't Expect Me to Be Your Friend" Lobo
88 " Break Up to Make Up" The Stylistics
89 " Daisy a Day" Jud Strunk
90 " Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001)" Deodato
91 " Stir It Up" Johnny Nash
92 " Money" Pink Floyd
93 " Gypsy Man" War
94 " The World Is a Ghetto"
95 " Yes We Can Can" The Pointer Sisters
96 " Free Ride" The Edgar Winter Group
97 " Space Oddity" David Bowie
98 " It Never Rains in Southern California" Albert Hammond
99 " The Twelfth of Never" Donny Osmond
100 " Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" The Temptations

See also

References

  1. ^ "Top Pop 100 Singles" (PDF). Billboard Talent in Action. 1973-12-29. p. TA-28. Retrieved 2020-12-06.