List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1972
Appearance
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This is a list of singles that have peaked in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 during 1972.
Al Green scored four top ten hits during the year with "Let's Stay Together", "Look What You Done for Me", "I'm Still in Love with You", and "You Ought to Be with Me", the most among all other artists.
Top-ten singles
[edit]1971 peaks
[edit]Top ten entry date |
Single | Artist(s) | Peak | Peak date | Weeks in top ten |
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November 13 | "Have You Seen Her" | The Chi-Lites | 3 | December 11 | 8 |
November 20 | "Family Affair" | Sly and the Family Stone | 1 | December 4 | 9 |
"Got to Be There" | Michael Jackson | 4 | December 11 | 9 | |
December 4 | "An Old Fashioned Love Song" | Three Dog Night | 4 | December 18 | 5 |
December 11 | "Brand New Key" | Melanie | 1 | December 25 | 10 |
December 18 | "Cherish" | David Cassidy | 9 | December 25 | 4 |
1973 peaks
[edit]Top ten entry date |
Single | Artist(s) | Peak | Peak date | Weeks in top ten |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
December 23 | "You're So Vain" | Carly Simon | 1 | January 6 | 11 |
"Funny Face" | Donna Fargo | 5 | January 6 | 4 | |
"Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu" | Johnny Rivers | 6 | January 20 | 6 | |
December 30 | "Your Mama Don't Dance" | Loggins and Messina | 4 | January 27 | 6 |
"Superfly" | Curtis Mayfield | 8 | January 13 | 4 |
See also
[edit]- 1972 in music
- List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1972
- Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1972
References
[edit]General sources
[edit]- Whitburn, Joel (2012). Pop Annual, 1955–2011 (8th ed.). Record Research Inc. ISBN 0-89820-194-2.
- Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Seventies (ISBN 0-89820-076-8)
- Additional information obtained can be verified within Billboard's online archive services and print editions of the magazine.