MusicSeek.info - Billboard & Cashbox Year End Charts

1971	Billboard	Cashbox
Rank	Title	Artist	Peak	Date	Rank
1	Joy To The World ●	Three Dog Night	1(6)	04/17-05/22	1*
2	Maggie May ●	Rod Stewart	1(5)	10/02-10/30	23*
3	It's Too Late ●	Carole King	1(5)	06/19-07/17	2*
4	One Bad Apple ●	Osmonds	1(5)	02/13-03/13	9*
5	How Can You Mend A Broken Heart ●	Bee Gees	1(4)	08/07-08/28	4*
6	Indian Reservation ▲	Paul Revere & The Raiders	1	07/24	3*
7	Go Away Little Girl ●	Donny Osmond	1(3)	09/11-09/25	8*
8	Take Me Home, Country Roads ●	John Denver With Fat City	2	08	10*
9	Just My Imagination (Runnin' Away With Me) ▲	Temptations	1(2)	04/03-04/10	7*
10	Knock Three Times ●	Tony Orlando & Dawn	1(3)	01/23-02/06	18*
11	Me & Bobby McGee	Janis Joplin	1(2)	03/20-03/27	29
12	Tired Of Being Alone ●	Al Green	11	11	32
13	Want-Ads ●	Honeycombs	1	06/12	15*
14	Smiling Faces Sometimes	Undisputed Truth	3(2)	09	19*
15	Treat Her Like A Lady ●	Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose	3(2)	07	14
16	Brown Sugar	Rolling Stones	1(2)	05/29-06/05	38
17	You've Got A Friend ●	James Taylor	1	07/31	27*
18	Mr. Big Stuff ▲²	Jean Knight	2(2)	08	42
19	Do You Know What I Mean	Lee Michaels	6	10	52
20	The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down ●	Joan Baez	3	10	21
21	What's Goin' On	Marvin Gaye	2(3)	04	22*
22	Uncle Albert & Admiral Halsey	Paul & Linda McCartney	1	09/04	30*
23	Ain't No Sunshine ●	Bill Withers	3(2)	09	24
24	Signs ●	Five Man Electrical Band	3	08	17
25	She's A Lady ●	Tom Jones	2	03	5*
26	I've Found Someone Of My Own	Free Movement	5	11	/
27	Jesus Christ / Superstar	Murray Head	14	05	71
28	Amos Moses ●	Jerry Reed	8	02	64
29	Temptation Eyes	Grass Roots	15	04	28
30	Superstar ●	Carpenters	2(2)	10	37
31	My Sweet Lord ●	George Harrison	1(4)	70/12/26-01/16	70*
32	Sweet & Innocent ●	Donny Osmond	7	06	46
33	Put Your Hand In The Hand	Ocean	2	05	20
34	Chick-A-Boom (Don't Ya Jes' Love It)	Daddy Dewdrop	9	05	41
35	For All Me Know ●	Carpenters	3(2)	03	36
36	If You Could Read My Mind	Gordon Lightfoot	5	02	50
37	Help Me Make It Through The Night ●	Ammi Smith	8	03	78
38	Rainy Days & Mondays ●	Carpenters	2(2)	06	33
39	Gypsy's Tramps & Thieves ●	Cher	1(2)	11/06-11/13	/*
40	Never Can Say Goodbye	Jackson 5	2(3)	05	11*
41	Rose Garden ●	Lynn Anderson	3(2)	02	6*
42	Don't Pull Your Love ●	Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds	4	07	16*
43	It Don't Come Easy ●	Ringo Starr	4	06	25*
44	Mr Bojangles	Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	9	02	45
45	I Love You For All Seasons	Fuzz	21	05	/
46	Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get	Dramatics	9	09	90
47	That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be	Carly Simon	10	07	82
48	If You Really Love Me	Stevie Wonder	8	10	77
49	Spanish Harlem ●	Aretha Franklin	2(2)	09	/*
50	I Don't Know How To Love Him	Helen Reddy	13	06	/
51	Yo-Yo ●	Osmonds	3(2)	10	68
52	Bridge Over Troubled Water ●	Aretha Franklin	6	06	31
53	Doesn't Somebody Want To Be Wanted ●	Partridge Family	6	03	13*
54	Draggin' The Line	Tommy James	4	08	12
55	Proud Mary ●	Ike & Tina Turner	4	03	56
56	Beginnings / Color My World	Chicago	7	08	58
57	Stay Awhile ●	Bells	7	05	59
58	Sweet City Woman	Stampeders	8	10	57
59	Me And You And A Dog Named Boo	Lobo	5	05	94
60	Another Day / Oh Woman, Oh Why	Paul McCartney	5	04	51
61	If	Bread	4	05	89
62	Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)	Marvin Gaye	4	08	26
63	One Toke Over The Line	Brewer & Shipley	10	04	72
64	She's Not Just Another Woman	8th Day	11	07	63
65	Bring The Boys Home ●	Freda Payne	12	08	88
66	I Just Want To Celebrate	Rare Earth	07	09	65
67	Never Ending Song Of Love	Delaney & Bonnie & Friends	13	07	66
68	Easy Loving	Freddy Hart	17	11	/
69	Liar	Three Dog Night	7	08	54
70	Stick-Up ●	Honey Cone	11	09	43
71	Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep	Mac & Katie Kissoon	20	10	/
72	Love Story (Where Do I Begin)	Andy Williams	9	04	73
73	Wild World	Cat Stevens	11	04	98
74	When You're Hot, You're Hot	Jerry Reed	9	06	55
75	Funky Nassau (Pt. 1) - The Beginning Of The End	Beginning Of The End	15	07	/
76	If Not For You	Olivia Newton-John	25	09	100#
77	Groove Me ●	King Floyd	6	01	53
78	Watching Scotty Grow	Bobby Goldsboro	11	02	61
79	Woodstock	Matthews' Southern Comfort	23	05	/
80	Amazing Grace	Judy Collins	15	02	80
81	I Hear You Knocking	Dave Edmunds	4	02	35
82	Lonely Days ●	Bee Gees	3	01	39*
83	Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again	Fortunes	15	07	92
84	Won't Get Fooled Again	Who	15	09	40
85	Trapped By A Thing Called Love	Denise Lasalle	13	10	/
86	Mama's Pearl	Jackson 5	2(2)	02	34*
87	Timothy	Buoys	17	05	/
88	I Woke Up In Love This Morning	Partridge Family	13	09	49
89	Theme From "Shaft" ●	Isaac Hayes	1(2)	11/20-11/27	/*
90	If I Were Your Woman	Gladys Knight & The Pips	9	02	44
91	I Am.. I Said	Neil Diamond	4	05	84
92	Wedding Song (There Is Love)	Paul Stookey	24	10	/
93	Don't Knock My Love, Pt. 1 ●	Wilson Pickett	13	06	47
94	Love Her Madly	Doors	11	05	87
95	Here Comes The Sun	Richie Havens	16	05	/
96	Sweet Mary	Wadsworth Mansion	7	02	79
97	Right On The Tip Of My Tongue	Brenda & The Tabulations	23	06	/
98	One Less Bell To Answer ▲	Fifth Dimension	2(2)	70/12	91
99	Riders On The Storm	Doors	14	09	100#
100	It's Impossible	Perry Como	10	01	/
Cashbox year end chart hits which not appear in Billboard year end chart
Rank	Title	Artist	Peak	Date	Rank
-	What Is Life	George Harrison	10	04	48
-	Have You Ever Seen The Rain ●	Creedence Clearwater Revival	8		60
-	I'll Meet You Halfway	The Partridge Family	9		62
-	Don't Let The Green Grass Fool You ●	Wilson Pickett	17		67
-	Precious Precious ●	Jackie Moore	30		69
-	Your Song	Elton John	8		74
-	Remember Me	Diana Ross	16		75
-	Sweet Hitch-Hiker ●	Creedence Clearwater Revival	6		76
-	Cried Like A Baby	Bobby Sherman	16		81
-	Love's Lines, Angles And Rhymes	The 5th Dimension	19		83
-	Sooner Or Later	The Grass Roots	9		85
-	Rain Dance	The Guess Who	19		86
-	Thin Line Between Love And Hate ●	The Persuaders	15		93
-	We Can Work It Out	Stevie Wonder	13		96
-	Oye Como Va	Santana	13		95
-	The Story In Your Eyes	The Moody Blues	23		97
-	Wild World	Cat Stevens	11		98
-	Stoney End	Barbra Streisand	6		99
Other major hits of the year which not appear in both Billboard & Cashbox year end charts
Rank	Title	Artist	Peak	Date	Rank
-	Baby I'm-a Want You ●	Bread	3(2)	12	/
-	Imagine	John Lennon/The Plastic Ono Band	3(2)	11	/
-	Have You Seen Her	Chi-Lites	3(2)	12	/
-	Peace Train	Cat Stevens	7		/
-	Desiderata	Les Crane	8		/
-	What The World Needs Now Is Love/Abraham, Martin And John	Tom Clay	8		/
-	Rock Steady ●	Aretha Franklin	9		/
-	Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)	Marvin Gaye	9		/
-	Never My Love	The 5th Dimension	12		/
-	Pay To The Piper	The Chairmen Of The Board	13		/
-	Theme From Love Story	Henry Mancini & His Orchestra	13		/
-	Immigrant Song	Led Zeppelin	16		/
-	I Don't Want To Do Wrong	Gladys Knight & The Pips	17		/
Rank = Position in year-end chart. Date = Peak date(s). Peak = The single's highest position during its chart run (Parenthesis indicates weeks on the highest position). * = A No.1 hit of Cashbox singles chart. # = Singles of the same position in year end chart. Information in Italic Font indicate possibly underrated singles in year end chart due to the fact of their year-crossing chart runs. ●= RIAA certification for sales of 1,000,000 units ▲= RIAA certification for sales of 2,000,000 units, with each additional 2 millions indicated by a numeral following the symbol.

1

Joy To The World ●

Three Dog Night

1(6)

04/17-05/22

1*

2

Maggie May ●

Rod Stewart

1(5)

10/02-10/30

23*

3

It's Too Late ●

Carole King

1(5)

06/19-07/17

2*

4

One Bad Apple ●

Osmonds

1(5)

02/13-03/13

9*

5

How Can You Mend A Broken Heart ●

Bee Gees

1(4)

08/07-08/28

4*

6

Indian Reservation ▲

Paul Revere & The Raiders

1

07/24

3*

7

Go Away Little Girl ●

Donny Osmond

1(3)

09/11-09/25

8*

8

Take Me Home, Country Roads ●

John Denver With Fat City

2

08

10*

9

Just My Imagination (Runnin' Away With Me) ▲

Temptations

1(2)

04/03-04/10

7*

10

Knock Three Times ●

Tony Orlando & Dawn

1(3)

01/23-02/06

18*

11

Me & Bobby McGee

Janis Joplin

1(2)

03/20-03/27

29

12

Tired Of Being Alone ●

Al Green

11

32

13

Want-Ads ●

Honeycombs

1

06/12

15*

14

Smiling Faces Sometimes

Undisputed Truth

3(2)

09

19*

15

Treat Her Like A Lady ●

Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose

3(2)

07

14

16

Brown Sugar

Rolling Stones

1(2)

05/29-06/05

38

17

You've Got A Friend ●

James Taylor

1

07/31

27*

18

Mr. Big Stuff ▲²

Jean Knight

2(2)

08

42

19

Do You Know What I Mean

Lee Michaels

6

10

52

20

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down ●

Joan Baez

3

10

21

What's Goin' On

Marvin Gaye

2(3)

04

22*

22

Uncle Albert & Admiral Halsey

Paul & Linda McCartney

1

09/04

30*

23

Ain't No Sunshine ●

Bill Withers

3(2)

09

24

Signs ●

Five Man Electrical Band

3

08

17

25

She's A Lady ●

Tom Jones

2

03

5*

26

I've Found Someone Of My Own

Free Movement

5

11

/

27

Jesus Christ / Superstar

Murray Head

14

05

71

28

Amos Moses ●

Jerry Reed

8

02

64

29

Temptation Eyes

Grass Roots

15

04

28

30

Superstar ●

Carpenters

2(2)

10

37

31

My Sweet Lord ●

George Harrison

1(4)

70/12/26-01/16

70*

32

Sweet & Innocent ●

Donny Osmond

7

06

46

33

Put Your Hand In The Hand

Ocean

2

05

20

34

Chick-A-Boom (Don't Ya Jes' Love It)

Daddy Dewdrop

9

05

41

35

For All Me Know ●

Carpenters

3(2)

03

36

If You Could Read My Mind

Gordon Lightfoot

5

02

50

37

Help Me Make It Through The Night ●

Ammi Smith

8

03

78

38

Rainy Days & Mondays ●

Carpenters

2(2)

06

33

39

Gypsy's Tramps & Thieves ●

Cher

1(2)

11/06-11/13

/*

40

Never Can Say Goodbye

Jackson 5

2(3)

05

11*

41

Rose Garden ●

Lynn Anderson

3(2)

02

6*

42

Don't Pull Your Love ●

Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds

4

07

16*

43

It Don't Come Easy ●

Ringo Starr

4

06

25*

44

Mr Bojangles

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

9

02

45

I Love You For All Seasons

Fuzz

21

05

/

46

Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get

Dramatics

9

09

90

47

That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be

Carly Simon

10

07

82

48

If You Really Love Me

Stevie Wonder

8

10

77

49

Spanish Harlem ●

Aretha Franklin

2(2)

09

/*

50

I Don't Know How To Love Him

Helen Reddy

13

06

/

51

Yo-Yo ●

Osmonds

3(2)

10

68

52

Bridge Over Troubled Water ●

Aretha Franklin

6

06

31

53

Doesn't Somebody Want To Be Wanted ●

Partridge Family

6

03

13*

54

Draggin' The Line

Tommy James

4

08

12

55

Proud Mary ●

Ike & Tina Turner

4

03

56

Beginnings / Color My World

Chicago

7

08

58

57

Stay Awhile ●

Bells

7

05

59

58

Sweet City Woman

Stampeders

8

10

57

59

Me And You And A Dog Named Boo

Lobo

5

05

94

60

Another Day / Oh Woman, Oh Why

Paul McCartney

5

04

51

61

If

Bread

4

05

89

62

Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)

Marvin Gaye

4

08

26

63

One Toke Over The Line

Brewer & Shipley

10

04

72

64

She's Not Just Another Woman

8th Day

11

07

63

65

Bring The Boys Home ●

Freda Payne

12

08

88

66

I Just Want To Celebrate

Rare Earth

07

09

65

67

Never Ending Song Of Love

Delaney & Bonnie & Friends

13

07

66

68

Easy Loving

Freddy Hart

17

11

/

69

Liar

Three Dog Night

7

08

54

70

Stick-Up ●

Honey Cone

11

09

43

71

Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep

Mac & Katie Kissoon

20

10

/

72

Love Story (Where Do I Begin)

Andy Williams

9

04

73

Wild World

Cat Stevens

11

04

98

74

When You're Hot, You're Hot

Jerry Reed

9

06

55

75

Funky Nassau (Pt. 1) - The Beginning Of The End

Beginning Of The End

15

07

/

76

If Not For You

Olivia Newton-John

25

09

100#

77

Groove Me ●

King Floyd

6

01

53

78

Watching Scotty Grow

Bobby Goldsboro

11

02

61

79

Woodstock

Matthews' Southern Comfort

23

05

/

80

Amazing Grace

Judy Collins

15

02

80

81

I Hear You Knocking

Dave Edmunds

4

02

35

82

Lonely Days ●

Bee Gees

3

01

39*

83

Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again

Fortunes

15

07

92

84

Won't Get Fooled Again

Who

15

09

40

85

Trapped By A Thing Called Love

Denise Lasalle

13

10

/

86

Mama's Pearl

Jackson 5

2(2)

02

34*

87

Timothy

Buoys

17

05

/

88

I Woke Up In Love This Morning

Partridge Family

13

09

49

89

Theme From "Shaft" ●

Isaac Hayes

1(2)

11/20-11/27

/*

90

If I Were Your Woman

Gladys Knight & The Pips

9

02

44

91

I Am.. I Said

Neil Diamond

4

05

84

92

Wedding Song (There Is Love)

Paul Stookey

24

10

/

93

Don't Knock My Love, Pt. 1 ●

Wilson Pickett

13

06

47

94

Love Her Madly

Doors

11

05

87

95

Here Comes The Sun

Richie Havens

16

05

/

96

Sweet Mary

Wadsworth Mansion

7

02

79

97

Right On The Tip Of My Tongue

Brenda & The Tabulations

23

06

/

98

One Less Bell To Answer ▲

Fifth Dimension

2(2)

70/12

91

99

Riders On The Storm

Doors

14

09

100#

100

It's Impossible

Perry Como

10

01

/

Cashbox year end chart hits which not appear in Billboard year end chart

Rank

Title

Artist

Peak

Date

Rank

-

What Is Life

George Harrison

10

04

48

-

Have You Ever Seen The Rain ●

Creedence Clearwater Revival

8

60

-

I'll Meet You Halfway

The Partridge Family

9

62

-

Don't Let The Green Grass Fool You ●

Wilson Pickett

17

67

-

Precious Precious ●

Jackie Moore

30

69

-

Your Song

Elton John

8

74

-

Remember Me

Diana Ross

16

75

-

Sweet Hitch-Hiker ●

Creedence Clearwater Revival

6

76

-

Cried Like A Baby

Bobby Sherman

16

81

-

Love's Lines, Angles And Rhymes

The 5th Dimension

19

83

-

Sooner Or Later

The Grass Roots

9

85

-

Rain Dance

The Guess Who

19

86

-

Thin Line Between Love And Hate ●

The Persuaders

15

93

-

We Can Work It Out

Stevie Wonder

13

96

-

Oye Como Va

Santana

13

95

-

The Story In Your Eyes

The Moody Blues

23

97

-

Wild World

Cat Stevens

11

98

-

Stoney End

Barbra Streisand

6

99

Other major hits of the year which not appear in both Billboard & Cashbox year end charts

Rank

Title

Artist

Peak

Date

Rank

-

Baby I'm-a Want You ●

Bread

3(2)

12

/

-

Imagine

John Lennon/The Plastic Ono Band

3(2)

11

/

-

Have You Seen Her

Chi-Lites

3(2)

12

/

-

Peace Train

Cat Stevens

7

/

-

Desiderata

Les Crane

8

/

-

What The World Needs Now Is Love/Abraham, Martin And John

Tom Clay

8

/

-

Rock Steady ●

Aretha Franklin

9

/

-

Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)

Marvin Gaye

9

/

-

Never My Love

The 5th Dimension

12

/

-

Pay To The Piper

The Chairmen Of The Board

13

/

-

Theme From Love Story

Henry Mancini & His Orchestra

13

/

-

Immigrant Song

Led Zeppelin

16

/

-

I Don't Want To Do Wrong

Gladys Knight & The Pips

17

/

Rank = Position in year-end chart. Date = Peak date(s).
Peak = The single's highest position during its chart run (Parenthesis indicates weeks on the highest position).
* = A No.1 hit of Cashbox singles chart.
# = Singles of the same position in year end chart.
Information in Italic Font indicate possibly underrated singles in year end chart due to the fact of their year-crossing chart runs.
●= RIAA certification for sales of 1,000,000 units
▲= RIAA certification for sales of 2,000,000 units, with each additional 2 millions indicated by a numeral following the symbol.