Title / Artist / Weeks at #1:
You’re So Vain – Carly Simon (3 weeks)
Superstition – Stevie Wonder (1 week)
Crocodile Rock – Elton John (3 weeks)
Killing Me Softly With His Song – Roberta Flack (5 weeks)
Love Train – The O’Jays (1 week)
Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia – Vicki Lawrence (2 weeks)
Tie A Yellow Ribbon – Tony Orlando and Dawn (4 weeks)
You Are The Sunshine Of My Life – Stevie Wonder (1 week)
Frankenstein – The Edgar Winter Group (1 week)
My Love – Paul McCartney and Wings (4 weeks)
Give Me Love – George Harrison (1 week)
Will It Go Round In Circles – Billy Preston (2 weeks)
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown – Jim Croce (2 weeks)
Morning After – Maureen McGovern (2 weeks)
Touch Me In The Morning – Dianna Ross (1 week)
Brother Louie – Stories (2 weeks)
Let’s Get It On – Marvin Gaye (2 weeks)
Delta Dawn – Helen Reddy (1 week)
We’re An American Band – Grand Funk (1 week)
Half Breed – Cher (2 weeks)
Angie – The Rolling Stones (1 week)
Midnight Train To Georgia – Gladys Knight & The Pips (2 weeks)
Keep On Truckin’ (Part 1) – Eddie Kendricks (2 weeks)
Photograph – Ringo Starr (1 week)
Top Of The World – The Carpenters (2 weeks)
The Most Beautiful Girl – Charlie Rich (2 weeks)
Time In A Bottle – Jim Croce (1 week)
1973 Top 50 Best Selling Singles
1 The Rolling Stones / Angie
2 Tony Orlando & Dawn / Tie a Yellow Ribbon ’round the Old Oak Tree
3 Roberta Flack / Killing Me Softly With His Song
4 Carly Simon / You’re So Vain
5 Elton John / Crocodile Rock
6 Lobo / I’d Love You to Want Me
7 The Sweet / The Ballroom Blitz
8 Elton John / Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
9 Stevie Wonder / Superstition
10 Gilbert O’Sullivan / Get Down
11 Ringo Starr / Photograph
12 Carpenters / Top of the World
13 Elton John / Daniel
14 Stevie Wonder / You Are the Sunshine of My Life
15 Suzi Quatro / Can the Can
16 The Sweet / Blockbuster
17 Deep Purple / Smoke On the Water
18 Marvin Gaye / Let’s Get it On
19 David Bowie / Space Oddity
20 Carpenters / Yesterday Once More
21 Maureen McGovern / The Morning After
22 Wings / My Love
23 Stories / Brother Louie
24 Lou Reed / Walk On the Wild Side
25 Stealer’s Wheel / Stuck in the Middle With You
26 Billy Paul / Me & Mrs Jones
27 Wings / Live & Let Die
28 Timmy Thomas / Why Can’t We Live Together?
29 Gladys Knight & The Pips / Midnight Train to Georgia
30 Helen Reddy / Delta Dawn
31 Jim Croce / Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
32 The O’Jays / Love Train
33 The Doobie Brothers / Long Train Runnin’
34 Demis Roussos / Goodbye, My Love, Goodbye
35 Edgar Winter Group / Frankenstein
36 Suzi Quatro / 48 Crash
37 Pink Floyd / Money
38 Ike & Tina Turner / Nutbush City Limits
39 Curtis Mayfield / Superfly
40 War / Cisco Kid
41 Cher / Half-breed
42 George Harrison / Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)
43 Charlie Rich / Behind Closed Doors
44 Paul Simon / Kodachrome
45 Billy Preston / Will It Go Round In Circles
46 Eric Weissburg & Steve Mandell / Duelling Banjos
47 Diana Ross / Touch Me in the Morning
48 Three Dog Night / Shambala
49 Dobie Gray / Drift Away
50 Hurricane Smith / Oh Babe What Would You Say?
51 Bob Dylan / Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door
52 Grand Funk Railroad / We’re an American Band
53 Donny Osmond / The Twelfth of Never
54 Albert Hammond / Free Electric Band
55 The Detroit Spinners / Could it Be I’m Falling in Love
56 Barry White / I’m Gonna Love You Just A Little Bit More
57 Todd Rundgren / Hello It’s Me
58 Demis Roussos / Forever & Ever
59 Eumir Deodato / Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001)
60 Helen Reddy / Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)
61 Slade / Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me
62 Slade / Merry Xmas Everybody
63 Marie Osmond / Paper Roses
64 Tony Orlando & Dawn / Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose?
65 Steely Dan / Do it Again
66 The Sweet / Hell Raiser
67 Stevie Wonder / Higher Ground
68 Gladys Knight & The Pips / Neither One of Us
69 Slade / Cum On Feel the Noize
70 Wizzard / See My Baby Jive
71 Jim Croce / Time in a Bottle
72 Clint Holmes / Playground In My Mind
73 Edward Bear / The Last Song
74 The Allman Brothers Band / Ramblin’ Man
75 Vicki Lawrence / The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia
76 Slade / Gudbye T’Jane
77 Slade / My Friend Stan
78 Wings / Hi Hi Hi
79 Gary Glitter / I Love You Love Me Love
80 Abba / Ring Ring
81 Cliff Richard / Power to All Our Friends
82 David Bowie / Sorrow
83 The Isley Brothers / That Lady
84 Gary Glitter / I’m the Leader of the Gang (I Am)
85 Shirley Bassey / Never Never Never
86 The Rolling Stones / Sympathy For the Devil
87 Chicago / Just You ‘n’ Me
88 Les Humphries Singers / Mama Loo
89 Jim Messina & Kenny Loggins / Your Mama Don’t Dance
90 Carpenters / Sing
91 Kris Kristofferson / Why Me?
92 Donny Osmond / Young Love
93 Thin Lizzy / Whisky in the Jar
94 Sylvia Vanderpool / Pillow Talk
95 10cc / Rubber Bullets
96 Anne Murray / Danny’s Song
97 BW Stevenson / My Maria
98 Lobo / Don’t Expect Me To Be Your Friend
99 Bernd Cluver / Der Junge mit der Mundharmonika
100 Eddie Kendricks / Keep On Truckin’
Top 100 Best Selling Albums
Top 100 Best Selling Albums
Pink Floyd / Dark Side Of The Moon
2 Led Zeppelin / Houses Of The Holy
3 Elton John / Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
4 The Beatles / The Beatles 1967-1970
5 The Beatles / The Beatles 1962-1966
6 The Rolling Stones / Goat’s Head Soup
7 Elton John / Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player
8 Mike Oldfield / Tubular Bells
9 Deep Purple / Made In Japan
10 Stevie Wonder / Innervisions
11 Carly Simon / No Secrets
12 Wings / Red Rose Speedway
13 George Harrison / Living In The Material World
14 The Allman Brothers Band / Brothers & Sisters
15 The Who / Quadrophenia
16 Jethro Tull / A Passion Play
17 Neil Diamond / Hot August Night
18 Elvis Presley / Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite (TV special)
19 Alice Cooper / Billion Dollar Babies
20 Neil Diamond / Jonathan Livingston Seagull
21 Ringo Starr / Ringo
22 Slade / Slayed?
23 Paul Simon / There Goes Rhymin’ Simon
24 David Bowie / Aladdin Sane
25 Chicago / Chicago VI
26 Carpenters / Now & Then
27 Jim Croce / You Don’t Mess Around With Jim
28 Cat Stevens / Foreigner
29 Emerson, Lake & Palmer / Brain Salad Surgery
30 Deep Purple / Who Do We Think We Are
31 Marvin Gaye / Let’s Get It On
32 John Lennon / Mind Games
33 Diana Ross / Lady Sings The Blues
34 Eric Weissburg & Steve Mandell / Dueling Banjos
35 Roberta Flack / Killing Me Softly
36 Bruce Springsteen / The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle
37 David Bowie / Pin-Ups
38 Black Sabbath / SAbbath Bloody SAbbath
39 Santana & John McLaughlin / Love, Devotion, Surrender
40 Genesis / Selling England By The Pound
41 Grand Funk Railroad / We’re An American Band
42 Herbie Hancock / Head Hunters
43 Bruce Springsteen / Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.
44 The Temptations / Masterpiece
45 Yes / Yessongs
46 Art Garfunkel / Angel Clare
47 Slade / Sladest
48 Roxy Music / For Your Pleasure
49 Bette Midler / The Divine Miss M
50 Lynyrd Skynyrd / Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd
51 Uriah Heep / Sweet Freedom
52 Ten Years After / Recorded Live
53 Santana / Welcome
54 Eagles / Desperado
55 Bread / The Best Of Bread
56 Focus / Moving Waves
57 Jimmy Cliff / The Harder They Come
58 John Denver / Rocky Mountain High
59 Suzi Quatro / Suzi Quatro
60 America / Homecoming
61 Uriah Heep / Live – January 1973
62 Steve Miller Band / The Joker
63 The Doobie Brothers / The Captain & Me
64 James Taylor / One Man Dog
65 Al Green / Call Me
66 Bob Marley / Catch a Fire
67 Rick Wakeman / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII
68 Mahavishnu Orchestra / Birds Of Fire
69 Jim Croce / Life & Times
70 Procol Harum / Grand Hotel
71 Iggy Pop & The Stooges / Raw Power
72 Roxy Music / Stranded
73 Lou Reed / Berlin
74 Rod Stewart / Sing It Again Rod
75 Bob Marley / Burnin’
76 Mott The Hoople / Mott
77 The Isley Brothers / 3 + 3
78 Alice Cooper / Muscle Of Love
79 Janis Joplin / Janis Joplin’s Greatest Hits
80 Steely Dan / Countdown to Ecstasy
81 Neil Young / Time Fades Away
82 Perry Como / And I Love You So
83 Status Quo / Hello
84 Leon Russell / Leon Live
85 Gilbert O’Sullivan / I’m A Writer Not A Fighter
86 The Faces / Ooh La La
87 Sly & The Family Stone / Fresh
88 Carole King / Fantasy
89 Traffic / Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory
90 Diana Ross / Touch Me In The Morning
91 Jackson Browne / For Everyman
92 Joe Walsh / The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get
93 Neil Diamond / Rainbow
94 Free / Heartbreaker
95 ZZ Top / Tres Hombres
96 Hall & Oates / Abandoned Luncheonette
97 Bob Dylan / Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid
98 Maria Muldaur / Maria Muldaur
99 Frank Sinatra / Ol’ Blue Eyes Is Back
100 Jim Croce / I Got A Name