POPHITS.ORG PRESENTING

HOT 100

FOR THE WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 25, 1971
1

Brand New Key

Melanie

↑ 1

Peak: 1 • 18 wks • Prev: 2

2

Family Affair

Sly & The Family Stone

↓ 1

Peak: 1 • 14 wks • Prev: 1

3

American Pie (Parts I & II)

Don McLean

↑ 6

Peak: 1 • 19 wks • Prev: 9

4

An Old Fashioned Love Song

Three Dog Night

—

Peak: 4 • 11 wks • Prev: 4

5

Got To Be There

Michael Jackson

—

Peak: 4 • 14 wks • Prev: 5

6

Have You Seen Her

The Chi-lites

↓ 3

Peak: 3 • 14 wks • Prev: 3

7

All I Ever Need Is You

Sonny & Cher

↑ 1

Peak: 7 • 15 wks • Prev: 8

8

Scorpio

Dennis Coffey & The Detroit Guitar Band

↑ 3

Peak: 6 • 17 wks • Prev: 11

9

Cherish

David Cassidy

↑ 1

Peak: 9 • 12 wks • Prev: 10

10

Hey Girl/I Knew You When

Donny Osmond

↑ 2

Peak: 9 • 10 wks • Prev: 12

11

Baby I'm - A Want You

Bread

↓ 4

Peak: 3 • 12 wks • Prev: 7

12

Respect Yourself

The Staple Singers

↑ 1

Peak: 12 • 14 wks • Prev: 13

13

Sunshine

Jonathan Edwards

↑ 7

Peak: 4 • 16 wks • Prev: 20

14

You Are Everything

The Stylistics

↑ 1

Peak: 9 • 16 wks • Prev: 15

15

Where Did Our Love Go

Donnie Elbert

↑ 1

Peak: 15 • 13 wks • Prev: 16

16

Theme From Shaft

Isaac Hayes

↓ 10

Peak: 1 • 13 wks • Prev: 6

17

I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing (In Perfect Harmony)

The New Seekers

↑ 11

Peak: 7 • 11 wks • Prev: 28

18

Superstar (Remember How You Got Where You Are)

The Temptations

—

Peak: 18 • 10 wks • Prev: 18

19

Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves

Cher

↓ 2

Peak: 1 • 16 wks • Prev: 17

20

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

↑ 10

Peak: 1 • 16 wks • Prev: 30

21

I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing (In Perfect Harmony)

The Hillside Singers

↑ 5

Peak: 13 • 12 wks • Prev: 26

22

One Monkey Don't Stop No Show Part I

The Honey Cone

↑ 2

Peak: 15 • 11 wks • Prev: 24

23

Clean Up Woman

Betty Wright

↑ 6

Peak: 6 • 14 wks • Prev: 29

24

(I Know) I'm Losing You

Rod Stewart With Faces

↑ 1

Peak: 24 • 9 wks • Prev: 25

25

Stones/Crunchy Granola Suite

Neil Diamond

↓ 11

Peak: 14 • 9 wks • Prev: 14

26

Day After Day

Badfinger

↑ 13

Peak: 4 • 14 wks • Prev: 39

27

Rock Steady

Aretha Franklin

↓ 8

Peak: 9 • 9 wks • Prev: 19

28

Drowning In The Sea Of Love

Joe Simon

↑ 4

Peak: 11 • 13 wks • Prev: 32

29

Theme From "Summer Of '42"

Peter Nero

↓ 8

Peak: 21 • 13 wks • Prev: 21

30

An American Trilogy

Mickey Newbury

↑ 1

Peak: 26 • 11 wks • Prev: 31

31

Sugar Daddy

Jackson 5

↑ 14

Peak: 10 • 10 wks • Prev: 45

32

Hey Big Brother

Rare Earth

↑ 6

Peak: 19 • 10 wks • Prev: 38

33

Hallelujah

Sweathog

—

Peak: 33 • 10 wks • Prev: 33

34

Behind Blue Eyes

The Who

—

Peak: 34 • 11 wks • Prev: 34

35

Desiderata

Les Crane

↓ 13

Peak: 8 • 12 wks • Prev: 22

36

A Natural Man

Lou Rawls

↓ 9

Peak: 17 • 18 wks • Prev: 27

37

Kiss An Angel Good Mornin'

Charley Pride

↑ 3

Peak: 21 • 16 wks • Prev: 40

38

George Jackson

Bob Dylan

↑ 8

Peak: 33 • 8 wks • Prev: 46

39

Can I Get A Witness

Lee Michaels

↑ 3

Peak: 39 • 9 wks • Prev: 42

40

White Lies, Blue Eyes

Bullet

↑ 4

Peak: 28 • 13 wks • Prev: 44

41

Nothing To Hide

Tommy James

↑ 2

Peak: 41 • 9 wks • Prev: 43

42

I'm A Greedy Man - Part I

James Brown

↓ 7

Peak: 35 • 8 wks • Prev: 35

43

Anticipation

Carly Simon

↑ 8

Peak: 13 • 13 wks • Prev: 51

44

It's One Of Those Nights (Yes Love)

The Partridge Family Starring Shirley Jones Featuring David Cassidy

↑ 13

Peak: 20 • 8 wks • Prev: 57

45

Once You Understand

Think

↑ 22

Peak: 23 • 10 wks • Prev: 67

46

Me And Bobby McGee

Jerry Lee Lewis

↑ 10

Peak: 40 • 10 wks • Prev: 56

47

Friends With You

John Denver

—

Peak: 47 • 11 wks • Prev: 47

48

Make Me The Woman That You Go Home To

Gladys Knight And The Pips

↑ 35

Peak: 27 • 10 wks • Prev: 83

49

Let It Be

Joan Baez

—

Peak: 49 • 8 wks • Prev: 49

50

Your Move (I've Seen All Good People)

Yes

↓ 2

Peak: 40 • 14 wks • Prev: 48

51

The Witch Queen Of New Orleans

Redbone

↑ 3

Peak: 21 • 17 wks • Prev: 54

52

Satisfaction

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

—

Peak: 49 • 9 wks • Prev: 52

53

Sour Suite

The Guess Who

↑ 2

Peak: 50 • 9 wks • Prev: 55

54

My Boy

Richard Harris

↑ 5

Peak: 41 • 11 wks • Prev: 59

55

Ain't Nobody Home

B.B. King

↑ 3

Peak: 46 • 12 wks • Prev: 58

56

Looking For A Love

The J. Geils Band

↑ 4

Peak: 39 • 10 wks • Prev: 60

57

Levon

Elton John

↑ 23

Peak: 24 • 10 wks • Prev: 80

58

Those Were The Days

Carroll O'Connor And Jean Stapleton (As The Bunkers)

↑ 6

Peak: 43 • 9 wks • Prev: 64

59

Carolyn

Merle Haggard And The Strangers

↑ 3

Peak: 58 • 7 wks • Prev: 62

60

That's The Way I Feel About Cha

Bobby Womack & Peace

↑ 11

Peak: 27 • 13 wks • Prev: 71

61

Pretty As You Feel

Jefferson Airplane

↑ 2

Peak: 60 • 10 wks • Prev: 63

62

Devil You

Stampeders

↑ 6

Peak: 61 • 7 wks • Prev: 68

63

Turn Your Radio On

Ray Stevens

↑ 2

Peak: 63 • 7 wks • Prev: 65

64

Truckin'

Grateful Dead

↑ 6

Peak: 64 • 8 wks • Prev: 70

65

Everybody Knows About My Good Thing Pt. 1

Little Johnny Taylor

↑ 8

Peak: 60 • 8 wks • Prev: 73

66

Daisy Mae

Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds

↑ 15

Peak: 41 • 11 wks • Prev: 81

67

Black Dog

Led Zeppelin

★ NEW

Peak: 15 • 12 wks

68

No Sad Song

Helen Reddy

↑ 7

Peak: 62 • 8 wks • Prev: 75

69

Take It Slow (Out In The Country)

Lighthouse

↑ 3

Peak: 64 • 7 wks • Prev: 72

70

Get Down

Curtis Mayfield

↓ 1

Peak: 69 • 7 wks • Prev: 69

71

Tightrope Ride

The Doors

↑ 5

Peak: 71 • 7 wks • Prev: 76

72

After All This Time

Merry Clayton

↑ 10

Peak: 71 • 7 wks • Prev: 82

73

Lay Lady Lay

The Isley Brothers

↑ 4

Peak: 71 • 5 wks • Prev: 77

74

Superstar/Bless The Beasts And Children

Carpenters

—

Peak: 2 • 21 wks • Prev: 74

75

Way Back Home

Jr. Walker & The All Stars

↑ 4

Peak: 52 • 9 wks • Prev: 79

76

Without You

Nilsson

↑ 23

Peak: 1 • 19 wks • Prev: 99

77

Don't Say You Don't Remember

Beverly Bremers

↑ 21

Peak: 15 • 16 wks • Prev: 98

78

Love Potion Number Nine

The Coasters

↑ 7

Peak: 76 • 6 wks • Prev: 85

79

Fire And Water

Wilson Pickett

★ NEW

Peak: 24 • 11 wks

80

The Harder I Try (The Bluer I Get)

Free Movement

↑ 9

Peak: 50 • 10 wks • Prev: 89

81

Never Been To Spain

Three Dog Night

★ NEW

Peak: 5 • 12 wks

82

Show Me How

The Emotions

↑ 11

Peak: 52 • 14 wks • Prev: 93

83

So Many People

Chase

↑ 5

Peak: 81 • 5 wks • Prev: 88

84

No Good To Cry

The Poppy Family

↑ 6

Peak: 84 • 4 wks • Prev: 90

85

You Make Your Own Heaven And Hell Right Here On Earth

The Undisputed Truth

↑ 2

Peak: 72 • 6 wks • Prev: 87

86

Get Up And Get Down

The Dramatics

—

Peak: 78 • 7 wks • Prev: 86

87

What Am I Living For

Ray Charles

★ NEW

Peak: 54 • 7 wks

88

Under My Wheels

Alice Cooper

★ NEW

Peak: 59 • 8 wks

89

Keep On Keeping On

N.F. Porter

↑ 5

Peak: 77 • 6 wks • Prev: 94

90

Five Hundred Miles

Heaven Bound with Tony Scotti

↑ 2

Peak: 79 • 9 wks • Prev: 92

91

She's All I Got

Johnny Paycheck

—

Peak: 91 • 2 wks • Prev: 91

92

Son Of Shaft

The Bar-Kays

★ NEW

Peak: 53 • 10 wks

93

Ain't Understanding Mellow

Jerry Butler & Brenda Lee Eager

↑ 2

Peak: 21 • 18 wks • Prev: 95

94

Long Time To Be Alone

The New Colony Six

↑ 3

Peak: 93 • 4 wks • Prev: 97

95

Open The Door (Song For Judith)

Judy Collins

↑ 1

Peak: 90 • 7 wks • Prev: 96

96

Love Gonna Pack Up (And Walk Out)

The Persuaders

★ NEW

Peak: 64 • 10 wks

97

Do The Funky Penguin Part I

Rufus Thomas

★ NEW

Peak: 44 • 10 wks

98

Keep Playin' That Rock 'N' Roll

Edgar Winter's White Trash

↑ 2

Peak: 70 • 11 wks • Prev: 100

99

Pain (Part I)

Ohio Players

★ NEW

Peak: 64 • 8 wks

100

Medley From "Superstar" (A Rock Opera)

The Assembled Multitude

★ NEW

Peak: 95 • 2 wks

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