These are the top 100 songs of 1973. Within the top 100, there are a total of 83 different bands or artists.
There are two acts with the most entries. Each of these acts has a total of three entries in the top songs of 1973:
- Stevie Wonder
- War
The song title is at the top in gray with the artist below in red.
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Top Songs of 1973
| 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 |
| 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 Nigh |
| 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 and the Crypt-Kickers |
| 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 the 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 | ArizonaLast 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 War |
| 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 |
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