List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1973

These are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1973.

Key

The yellow background indicates the #1 song on Billboard's 1973 Year-End Chart of Pop Singles.

Issue Date	Song	Artist(s)	Reference
January 6	"You're So Vain"	Carly Simon
January 13
January 20
January 27	"Superstition"	Stevie Wonder
February 3	"Crocodile Rock"	Elton John
February 10
February 17
February 24	"Killing Me Softly with His Song"	Roberta Flack
March 3
March 10
March 17
March 24	"Love Train"	The O'Jays
March 31	"Killing Me Softly with His Song"	Roberta Flack
April 7	"The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia"	Vicki Lawrence
April 14
April 21	"Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree"	Dawn featuring Tony Orlando
April 28
May 5
May 12
May 19	"You Are the Sunshine of My Life"	Stevie Wonder
May 26	"Frankenstein"	The Edgar Winter Group
June 2	"My Love"	Paul McCartney & Wings
June 9
June 16
June 23
June 30	"Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)"	George Harrison
July 7	"Will It Go Round in Circles"	Billy Preston
July 14
July 21	"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"	Jim Croce
July 28
August 4	"The Morning After"	Maureen McGovern
August 11
August 18	"Touch Me in the Morning"	Diana Ross
August 25	"Brother Louie"	Stories
September 1
September 8	"Let's Get It On"	Marvin Gaye
September 15	"Delta Dawn"	Helen Reddy
September 22	"Let's Get It On"	Marvin Gaye
September 29	"We're an American Band"	Grand Funk
October 6	"Half-Breed"	Cher
October 13
October 20	"Angie"	The Rolling Stones
October 27	"Midnight Train to Georgia"	Gladys Knight & the Pips
November 3
November 10	"Keep on Truckin' (Part 1)"	Eddie Kendricks
November 17
November 24	"Photograph"	Ringo Starr
December 1	"Top of the World"	The Carpenters
December 8
December 15	"The Most Beautiful Girl"	Charlie Rich
December 22
December 29	"Time in a Bottle"	Jim Croce

See also

• 1973 in music
• List of number-one hits (United States)
• Cashbox Top 100 number-one singles of 1973