These are the top 100 songs of 1971. Within the top 100, there are a total of 87 different bands or artists.
The Carpenters achieved the most entries with three of the top songs of 1971.
The song title is at the top in gray with the artist below in red.
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Top Songs of 1971
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)
Paul Revere & the 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
You’ve Got a Friend
James Taylor
17
Mr. Big Stuff
Jean Knight
18
Brown Sugar
The Rolling Stones
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
Superstar
Murray Head & The Trinidad Singers
27
I’ve Found Someone of My Own
The Free Movement
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
Help Me Make It Through the Night
Sammi Smith
37
Rainy Days and Mondays
The Carpenters
38
If You Could Read My Mind
Gordon Lightfoot
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
Somos Novios (It’s Impossible)
Perry Como