THE YEARS TOP SONGS
Top 100 Song Hits of 1971
1971
Billboard Year-End Hot 100 chart for 1970. Chart © by Billboard, a part of MRC Media and Info, a division of MRC. All Rights Reserved.
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1971 TOP 100
| Rank | Song Title | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joy to the World | Three Dog Night |
| 2 | Maggie May / Find a 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? | The Bee Gees |
| 6 | Indian Reservation | 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 | 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 and 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 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 and The Trinidad Singers |
| 27 | I Found Someone Of My Own | Free Movement |
| 28 | Amos Moses | Jerry Reed |
| 29 | Temptation Eyes | The Grass Roots |
| 30 | Superstar | The Carpenters |
| 31 | My Sweet Lord / Isn't It a Pity | 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 | Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves | Cher |
| 40 | Never Can Say Goodbye | The Jackson 5 |
| 41 | Rose Garden | Lynn Anderson |
| 42 | Don't Pull Your Love | Hamilton, Joe Frank and 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 and 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 and 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 and Bonnie and Friends |
| 68 | Easy Loving | Freddy 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, Pt. 1 | 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 | The 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 and The Pips |
| 91 | I Am...I Said | Neil Diamond |
| 92 | Wedding Song (There Is Love | Paul Stookey |
| 93 | Don't Knock My Love, Pt. 1 | 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 and The Tabulations |
| 98 | One Less Bell to Answer | The Fifth Dimension |
| 99 | Riders On the Storm | The Doors |
| 100 | It's Impossible | Perry Como |
