Billboard Magazine’s top 100 songs of 1971 were:
- Joy To World - Three Dog Night
- Maggie May - Rod Stewart
- It’s Too Late - Carole King
- One Bad Apple - Osmonds
- How Can You Mend A Broken Heart - The Bee Gees
- Indian Reservation (The Lament Of Cheroke) - Raiders
- Go Away Little Girl - Donny Osmond
- Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver
- Just My Imagination - The Temptations
- Knock Three Times - Tony Orlando & Dawn
- Me And Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin
- Tired Of Being Alone - Al Green
- Want Ads - Honey Cone
- Smiling Faces Sometimes - Undisputed Truth
- Treat Her Like A Lad - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
- Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones
- You’ve Got A Friend - James Taylor
- Mr. Big Stuff - Jean Knight
- Do You Know What I Mean - Lee Michaels
- Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - Joan Baez
- What’s Going On - Marvin Gaye
- Uncle Albert-Admiral Halsey - Paul & Linda McCartney
- Ain’t No Sunshine - Bill Withers
- Signs - Five Man Electrical Band
- She’s A Lady - Tom Jones
- I’ve Found Someone Of My Own - Free Movement
- Superstar - Murray Head With Trinidad Singers
- Amos Moses - Jerry Reed
- Temptation Eyes - The Grass Roots
- Superstar - The Carpenters
- My Sweet Lord - George Harrison
- Sweet And Innocent - Donny Osmond
- Put Your Hand In Hand - Ocean
- Chick-A-Boom - Daddy Dewdrop
- For All We Know - The Carpenters
- If You Could Read My Mind - Gordon Lightfoot
- Help Me Make It Through Night - Sammi Smith
- Rainy Days And Mondays - The Carpenters
- Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves - Cher
- Never Can Say Goodbye - Jackson 5
- Rose Garden - Lynn Anderson
- Don’t Pull Your Love - Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds
- It Don’t Come Easy - Ringo Starr & George Harrison
- Mr. Bojangles - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
- I Love You For All Seasons - Fuzz
- Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get - Dramatics
- That’s Way I’ve Always Heard It Shoul - Carly Simon
- If You Really Love Me - Stevie Wonder
- Spanish Harlem - Aretha Franklin
- I Don’t Know How To Love Him - Helen Reddy
- Yo-Yo - Osmonds
- Bridge Over Troubled Water - Aretha Franklin
- Doesn’t Somebody Want To Be Wanted - Partridge Family
- Draggin’ Line - Tommy James
- Proud Mary - Ike & Tina Turner
- Beginnings - Chicago
- Stay Awhile - Bells
- Sweet City Woman - Stampeders
- Me And You And A Dog Named Boo - Lobo
- Another Day - Paul McCartney
- If - Bread
- Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology) - Marvin Gaye
- One Toke Over Line - Brewer & Shipley
- She’s Not Just Another Woman - 8th Day
- Bring Boys Home - Freda Payne
- I Just Want To Celebrate - Rare Earth
- Never Ending Song Of Love - Delaney & Bonnie & Friends
- Easy Loving - Freddy Hart
- Liar - Three Dog Night
- Stick-Up - Honey Cone
- Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep - Mac & Katie Kissoon
- Love Story (Where Do I Begin) - Andy Williams
- Wild World - Cat Stevens
- When You’re Hot, You’re Hot - Jerry Reed
- Funky Nassau - Beginning Of End
- If Not For You - Olivia Newton-John
- Groove Me - King Floyd
- Watching Scotty Grow - Bobby Goldsboro
- Woodstock - Matthews’ Southern Comfort
- Amazing Grace - Judy Collins
- I Hear You Knocking - Dave Edmunds
- Lonely Days - The Bee Gees
- Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again - Fortunes
- Won’t Get Fooled Again (Radio Edit) - The Who
- Trapped By A Thing Called Love - Denise LaSalle
- Mama’s Pearl - Jackson 5
- Timothy - Buoys
- I Woke Up In Love This Morning - Partridge Family
- Theme From Shaft - Isaac Hayes
- If I Were Your Woman - Gladys Knight & Pips
- I Am I Said - Neil Diamond
- Wedding Song (There Is Love) - Paul Stookey
- Don’t Knock My Love - Wilson Pickett
- Love Her Madly - The Doors
- Here Comes Sun - Richie Havens
- Sweet Mary - Wadsworth Mansion
- Right On Tip Of My Tongue - Brenda & Tabulations
- One Less Bell To Answer - The 5th Dimension
- Riders On The Storm (Edit) - The Doors
- It’s Impossible - Perry Como
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