These are the top 100 songs of 1972. Within the top 100, there are a total of 92 different bands or artists.
Al Green achieved the most entries with three of the top songs of 1972.
The song title is at the top in gray with the artist below in red.
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Top Songs of 1972
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
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