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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.
Top ten entry date Single Artist(s) Peak Peak date Weeks in top ten Singles from 1971; December 18 "American Pie" Don McLean: 1 January 15 11 December 25 "Scorpio" Dennis Coffey: 6 January 8 6 "Hey Girl"/"I Knew You When" Donny Osmond: 9 January 15 4 Singles from 1972 January 1 "Sunshine" Jonathan Edwards: 4 January 15 6 January 8 "Let's Stay ...
These are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1972.. That year, 18 acts earned their first number one song, such as Don McLean, Al Green, Nilsson, Neil Young, America, Roberta Flack, The Chi-Lites, The Staple Singers, Sammy Davis Jr., Bill Withers, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Looking Glass, Mac Davis, Chuck Berry, Johnny Nash, Helen Reddy, and Billy Paul.
Billboard published a weekly chart in 1972 ranking the top-performing singles in the United States in soul music and related African American-oriented music genres; the chart has undergone various name changes over the decades to reflect the evolution of such genres and since 2005 has been published as Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. [1] In 1972, it was ...
List of Cash Box Top 100 number-one singles of 1972; List of Dutch Top 40 number-one singles of 1972; List of number-one singles of 1972 (France) List of Hot Country Singles number ones of 1972; List of number-one hits of 1972 (Germany) List of Best Selling Soul Singles number ones of 1972; List of number-one singles in 1972 (New Zealand)
The Bee Gees scored the most number-one hits (9 songs) and had the longest cumulative run atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart (27 weeks) during the 1970s. Rod Stewart remained at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 17 weeks during the 1970s. Elton John amassed the second-most number-one hits on the Hot 100 chart during the 1970s (6 songs). #
Issue Date Song Artist January 1 "Got to Be There" Michael Jackson: January 8 "American Pie" Don McLean: January 15 "Brand New Key" Melanie: January 22 "American Pie" Don McLean January 29
[2] [3] This list shows singles that peaked in the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart during 1972, as well as singles which peaked in 1971 and 1973 but were in the top 10 in 1972. The entry date is when the single appeared in the top 10 for the first time (week ending, as published by the Official Charts Company, which is six days after the chart ...