January-December year ends (1959-2023)

[Private Dancer]

Jan 19, 2022 12:46:02 GMT -5 94sidekick said:

Will someone eventually do the 1970s for these lists?

Yeah cause I'm waiting.

My predictions are Midnight Train To Georgia will be in the top ten of that year and so will Love Hangover. I'll Never Love This Way Again will also be higher up on the list. MacArthur Park may also move up two or three spots.

[nathanalbright]

Nice work you've done on this.

[mikerivera]

I just finished the project I've been working on since December: the top 100 songs of all time based on streaming and sales numbers. Would love it if y'all would check that out pulsemusic.proboards.com/post/8094779/thread. Now that I've finished that, I can begin working on the 1970s lists again. I have 1970-1972 done already, and will probably post the 1970 list pretty soon

[Private Dancer]

I hope "I'll Take You There" makes the top ten

[mikerivera]

The 1970 list

Rank	Song	Artist	Peak	Top 10	Hot 100	Points
1	I'll Be There	Jackson 5	#1 (5 weeks)	11	15	523,190
2	Bridge Over Troubled Water	Simon & Garfunkel	#1 (6 weeks)	10	14	499,950
3	(They Long to Be) Close to You	The Carpenters	#1 (4 weeks)	11	17	480,550
4	Let it Be	The Beatles	#1 (2 weeks)	11	14	433,930
5	Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head	BJ Thomas	#1 (4 weeks)	10	13	426,340
6	War	Edwin Starr	#1 (3 weeks)	8	15	410,570
7	Ain't No Mountain High Enough	Diana Ross	#1 (3 weeks)	9	14	395,410
8	ABC	Jackson 5	#1 (2 weeks)	9	13	393,510
9	Mama Told Me (Not to Come)	Three Dog Night	#1 (2 weeks)	9	15	391,770
10	American Woman	The Guess Who	#1 (3 weeks)	8	15	389,260
11	We've Only Just Begun	The Carpenters	#2	9	16	388,770
12	Make it With You	Bread	#1	10	15	386,990
13	The Love You Save	Jackson 5	#1 (2 weeks)	9	13	373,510
14	I Want You Back	Jackson 5	#1	8	12	346,160
15	Band of Gold	Freda Payne	#3	8	20	340,800
16	Cracklin' Rosie	Neil Diamond	#1	7	15	339,290
17	I Think I Love You	Partridge Family	#1 (3 weeks)	8	12	338,390
18	Spirit in the Sky	Norman Greenbaum	#3	8	15	326,850
19	Venus	Shocking Blue	#1	9	11	324,870
20	Thank You	Sly & The Family Stone	#1 (2 weeks)	7	13	321,700
21	Ball of Confusion (That's What the World is Today)	The Temptations	#3	9	15	318,930
22	Everything is Beautiful	Ray Stevens	#1 (2 weeks)	6	15	317,810
23	Fire and Rain	James Taylor	#3	8	16	313,770
24	The Tears of a Clown	Smokey Robinson & The Miracles	#1 (2 weeks)	7	11	309,250
25	Get Ready	Rare Earth	#4	5	20	307,640
26	Candida	Tony Orlando & Dawn	#3	8	18	306,410
27	Instant Karma	John Lennon	#3	8	13	306,190
28	Green-Eyed Lady	Sugarloaf	#3	8	17	293,970
29	Spill the Wine	Eric Burdon & War	#3	7	21	287,590
30	Lookin' Out the Back Door	Creedence Clearwater Revival	#2	7	13	282,860
31	Love on a Two-Way Street	The Moments	#3	5	15	280,550
32	Which Way You Goin' Billy	The Poppy Family	#2	5	17	276,440
33	Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)	Stevie Wonder	#3	6	14	275,910
34	The Long and Winding Road	The Beatles	#1 (2 weeks)	6	10	265,340
35	The Rapper	The Jaggerz	#2	6	13	264,920
36	Hitchin' a Ride	Vanity Fair	#5	4	22	264,480
37	Love Grows (Where Rosemary Grows)	Edison Lighthouse	#5	7	13	261,110
38	Patches	Clarence Carter	#4	6	14	260,700
39	Indiana Wants Me	R. Dean Taylor	#5	6	15	258,470
40	Hey There Lonely Girl	Eddie Holman	#2	6	13	257,540
41	Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)	Melanie	#6	6	17	256,940
42	All Right Now	Free	#4	6	16	255,360
43	Ride Captain Ride	Blues Image	#4	5	15	253,110
44	In the Summertime	Mungo Jerry	#3	6	16	252,100
45	Julie, Do Ya Love Me	Bobby Sherman	#5	6	15	249,830
46	Rainy Night in Georgia	Brook Benton	#4	5	15	243,040
47	Gypsy Woman	Brian Hyland	#3	7	17	241,470
48	Travelin' Band	Creedence Clearwater Revival	#2	5	10	232,180
49	Cecilia	Simon & Garfunkel	#4	5	13	232,170
50	Turn Back the Hands of Time	Tyrone Davis	#3	6	13	227,440
51	Vehicle	The Ides of March	#2	5	12	218,680
52	Up Around the Bend	Creedence Clearwater Revival	#4	5	11	213,970
53	25 or 6 to 4	Chicago	#4	5	12	213,140
54	Come and Get It	Badfinger	#7	6	15	210,940
55	Give Me Just a Little More Time	Chairman of the Board	#3	4	15	210,620
56	Tighter, Tighter	Alive N Kickin	#7	4	14	209,820
57	O-o-h Child	Five Stairsteps	#8	4	16	208,880
58	Whole Lotta Love	Led Zeppelin	#4	6	9	207,040
59	Someday We'll Be Together*	Diana Ross & The Supremes	#2	5	8	203,100
60	Love or Let Me Be Lonely	The Friends of Distraction	#6	4	13	201,110
61	He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother	The Hollies	#7	4	16	200,960
62	Reflection of My Life	Marmalade	#10	3	15	200,780
63	Snowbird	Anne Murray	#8	2	16	196,060
64	No Time	The Guess Who	#5	4	12	193,440
65	Ma Belle Amie	Tee-Set	#5	3	12	192,550
66	The House of the Rising Sun	Frijid Pink	#7	2	13	191,540
67	Easy Come, Easy Go	Bobby Sherman	#9	2	14	188,480
68	Without Love (There is Nothing)	Tom Jones	#5	3	10	188,440
69	Psychedelic Shack	The Temptations	#7	3	11	185,010
70	Lola	The Kinks	#9	3	14	183,020
71	The Wonder of You	Elvis Presley	#9	3	12	179,830
72	(I Know) I'm Losing You	Rare Earth	#7	3	14	179,510
73	The Letter	Joe Cocker	#7	4	12	179,230
74	Leaving on a Jet Plane*	Peter, Paul & Mary	#2	5	7	178,750
75	I'll Never Love Again	Dionne Warwick	#6	4	10	176,780
76	Montego Bay	Bobby Bloom	#8	2	16	176,040
77	Somebody's Been Sleeping	100 Proof	#8	2	14	170,580
78	Make Me Smile	Chicago	#9	2	14	170,400
79	One Less Bell to Answer	The 5th Dimension	#2	4	10	167,580
80	Why Can't I Touch You	Ronnie Dyson	#8	2	14	167,390
81	I Just Can't Help Believing	BJ Thomas	#9	1	13	167,260
82	Express Yourself	Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band	#12		15	166,070
83	Evil Ways	Santana	#9	2	13	165,260
84	My Baby Loves Lovin'	White Plains	#13		15	164,450
85	Up the Ladder to the Roof	The Supremes	#10	1	11	164,110
86	Don't Cry Daddy	Elvis Presley	#7	3	8	163,990
87	Still Water (Love)	The Four Tops	#11		14	163,540
88	Something's Burning	Kenny Rogers & The First Edition	#11		16	161,990
89	Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)	The Delfonics	#10	1	14	161,840
90	Arizona	Mark Lindsay	#10	1	12	160,120
91	For the Love of Him	Bobbi Martin	#13		14	156,270
92	Woodstock	Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	#11		11	155,450
93	Gimme Dat Ding	The Pipkins	#9	1	13	153,930
94	United We Stand	The Brotherhood of Men	#13		15	151,550
95	Don't Play That Song	Aretha Franklin & The Dixie Flyers	#11		10	145,440
96	Groovy Situation	Gene Chandler	#12		15	144,540
97	Walk a Mile in My Shoes	Joe South	#12		11	142,560
98	Jingle Jangle	The Archies	#10	1	8	142,450
99	It Don't Matter to Me	Bread	#10	1	11	140,380
100	My Sweet Lord	George Harrison	#1	3	5	138,940

[mikerivera]

Songs that missed
-Are You Ready
-Call Me
-Come Saturday Morning
-I Want to Take You Higher
-It’s a Shame
-It’s Only Make Believe
-Lay a Little Lovin on Me
-Look What They’ve Done to My Song Ma
-Love Land
-Mississippi Queen
-The Bells
-The Thrill is Gone
-Yellow River

Similar to the late 60s, the original list uses a 50-week charting window that goes from the first issue dated to January to the second issue dated to December. This means no songs from the original list were caught between years or got shifted onto the 1969 list. Plus a higher cutoff line as the result of adding two weeks. And finally, Yellow River and Mississippi Queen peaked outside the top 20, and I Want to Take You Higher only peaked at #34. So it’s a bit odd they all made the original list in the first place

[mikerivera]

The closest 10

Rank	Song	Artist	Points
101	5-10-15-20 (25-30 Years of Love)	The Presidents	136,710
102	Heaven Help Us All	Stevie Wonder	136,390
103	The Bells	The Originals	135,450
104	It’s a Shame	The Spinners	132,780
105	Lay a Little Lovin’ On Me	Robert McNamara	132,740
106	Are You Ready	Pacific Gas & Electric	132,730
107	Call Me	Aretha Franklin	131,630
108	Jam Up Jelly Tight	Tommy Roe	130,630
109	Share the Land	The Guess Who	128,890
110	It’s Only Make Believe	Glenn Campbell	128,010

[gikem]

One thing I can easily glean from 1970 as someone who hasn't explored that year in great depth is that it was truly the peak of the Jackson 5. Amazing that they not only were able to overtake the YE #1 from Simon & Garfunkel with I'll Be There (which was #7 on the original YE), but also got 4 songs in the top 15.

I'll update the playlist when I have time, but unfortunately, I've got an early-morning commitment to get ready for.

[Private Dancer]

Aint No Mountain High Enough still stands within the top ten of the year! Nice!

[inverse]

Jan 23, 2022 22:51:56 GMT -5 mikerivera said:

And finally, Yellow River and Mississippi Queen peaked outside the top 20, and I Want to Take You Higher only peaked at #34. So it’s a bit odd they all made the original list in the first place

this will keep happening a fair amount because as far as I can tell Billboard's formula was literally #1 = 100, #2 = 99 etc. So a chart run of 23-23-23-24-24-24-25-25-25-26-26-26 would finish higher than eight weeks at #1.

Because my 1960's formulas spaced out the top 10 much further these were almost always calculated out of them, although there's a big exception in 1963. 

[mikerivera]

The 1971 list

Rank	Song	Artist	Peak	Top 10	Hot 100	Points
1	Joy to the World	Three Dog Night	#1 (6 weeks)	11	17	564,530
2	Maggie May/Reason to Believe	Rod Stewart	#1 (5 weeks)	11	16	517,620
3	It's Too Late/ Feel the Earth Move	Carole King	#1 (5 weeks)	10	17	501,680
4	Indian Reservation	The Raiders	#1	9	22	437,680
5	One Bad Apple	The Osmonds	#1 (5 weeks)	9	15	428,940
6	How Can You Mend a Broken Heart	Bee Gees	#1 (4 weeks)	10	15	427,640
7	Knock Three Times	Tony Orlando & Dawn	#1 (3 weeks)	9	12	423,870
8	Go Away Little Girl	Donny Osmond	#1 (3 weeks)	9	15	406,790
9	Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)	The Temptations	#1 (2 weeks)	9	15	384,250
10	Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves	Cher	#1 (2 weeks)	9	15	379,200
11	Theme from "Shaft"	Isaac Hayes	#1 (2 weeks)	9	11	360,650
12	Me and Bobby McGee	Janis Joplin	#1 (2 weeks)	8	15	356,080
13	Brown Sugar	The Rolling Stones	#1 (2 weeks)	8	12	340,730
14	Mr. Big Stuff	Jean Knight	#2	8	16	339,600
15	Take Me Home, Country Roads	John Denver	#2	8	23	336,850
16	Want Ads	Honey Cone	#1	8	16	336,620
17	You've Got a Friend	James Taylor	#1	8	14	331,830
18	What's Going On	Marvin Gaye	#2	8	15	328,080
19	My Sweet Lord*	George Harrison	#1 (3 weeks)	7	9	326,010
20	Superstar	The Carpenters	#2	8	13	323,400
21	Never Can Say Goodbye	Jackson 5	#2	7	12	318,090
22	She's a Lady	Tom Jones	#2	8	14	313,220
23	Rainy Days and Mondays	The Carpenters	#2	7	12	305,150
24	The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down	Joan Baez	#3	8	15	303,990
25	Treat Her Like a Lady	Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose	#3	7	18	302,750
26	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Ocean	#2	7	14	298,180
27	Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey	Paul & Linda McCartney	#1	7	13	295,700
28	Smiling Faces Sometimes	The Undisputed Truth	#3	6	18	289,330
29	Yo-Yo	The Osmonds	#3	8	13	285,430
30	Ain't No Sunshine	Bill Withers	#3	6	16	283,950
31	For All We Know	The Carpenters	#3	7	13	275,590
32	Spanish Harlem	Aretha Franklin	#2	6	12	268,300
33	Rose Garden	Lynn Anderson	#3	6	12	267,730
34	Family Affair	Sly & The Family Stone	#1 (3 weeks)	6	8	265,810
35	It Don't Come Easy	Ringo Starr	#4	7	12	259,290
36	Do You Know What I Mean	Lee Michaels	#6	5	17	253,460
37	Have You Seen Her	Chi-Lites	#3	7	10	248,450
38	Don't Pull Your Love	Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds	#4	6	14	244,910
39	One Less Bell to Answer*	The 5th Dimension	#2	6	9	239,850
40	Signs	Five Man Electrical Band	#3	5	18	239,550
41	Tired of Being Alone	Al Green	#11		19	236,350
42	Sweet and Innocent	Donny Osmond	#7	5	16	233,630
43	Lonely Days	Bee Gees	#3	7	11	231,810
44	Bridge Over Troubled Water	Aretha Franklin	#6	6	12	230,560
45	Draggin' the Line	Tommy James	#4	6	13	228,860
46	Doesn't Somebody Want to Be Wanted	The Partridge Family	#6	6	12	226,920
47	Imagine	John Lennon	#3	6	9	223,690
48	If You Could Read My Mind	Gordon Lightfoot	#5	5	14	222,930
49	Proud Mary	Ike & Tina Turner	#4	5	13	221,780
50	Groove Me	King Floyd	#6	6	10	221,260
51	Baby I'm-a Want You	Bread	#3	5	10	217,230
52	Mama's Pearl	Jackson 5	#2	5	10	216,280
53	I've Found Someone of My Own	The Free Movement	#5	3	26	215,060
54	If	Bread	#4	5	12	213,580
55	Amos Moses	Jerry Reed	#8	2	15	213,330
56	Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)	Marvin Gaye	#4	4	12	211,580
57	Another Day/ Oh Woman, Oh Why	Paul McCartney	#5	5	12	211,170
58	Me and You and a Dog Named Boo	Lobo	#5	5	13	206,380
59	Chick-a-Boom (Don't Ya Jes' Love It)	Daddy Dewdrop	#9	5	16	203,470
60	I Hear You Knocking	Dave Edmunds	#4	5	11	201,860
61	Peace Train	Cat Stevens	#7	5	12	200,100
62	Mr. Bojangles	Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	#9	3	13	198,240
63	Help Me Make it Through the Night	Sammi Smith	#8	3	16	195,810
64	Beginnings/Colour My World	Chicago	#7	3	13	195,650
65	Got to Be There	Michael Jackson	#4	6	9	193,210
66	If You Really Love Me	Stevie Wonder	#8	3	14	193,210
67	Stay Awhile	The Bells	#7	4	14	191,930
68	I Am...I Said	Neil Diamond	#4	4	10	186,020
69	Watcha See is Whatcha Get	The Dramatics	#9	2	15	183,350
70	Sweet City Woman	The Stampeders	#8	3	14	179,120
71	Your Song	Elton John	#8	4	9	177,490
72	I Just Want to Celebrate	Rare Earth	#7	4	13	177,370
73	Liar	Three Dog Night	#7	3	12	176,430
74	Stoney End	Barbra Streisand	#6	4	9	176,030
75	When You're Hot, You're Hot	Jerry Reed	#9	3	12	168,080
76	Stick-Up	Honey Cone	#11		12	168,050
77	Temptation Eyes	The Grass Roots	#15		17	166,500
78	One Toke Over the Line	Brewer Shipley	#10	2	14	165,810
79	That's the Way I've Always Heard it Should Be	Carly Simon	#10	2	17	165,100
80	If I Were Your Woman	Gladys Knight & The Pips	#9	2	10	162,470
81	(Where Do I Begin) Love Story	Andy Williams	#9	1	13	162,300
82	Desiderata	Lee Crane	#8	3	12	161,520
83	Superstar	Murray Head & The Trinidad Singers	#14		24	161,400
84	She's Not Just Another Woman	8th Day	#11		13	161,290
85	Never Ending Song of Love	Delaney & Bonnie & Friends	#13		15	160,380
86	It's Impossible	Perry Como	#10	1	10	160,220
87	I Don't Know How to Love Him	Helen Reddy	#13		20	156,650
88	Bring the Boys Home	Freda Payne	#12		13	153,980
89	Black Magic Woman	Santana	#4	4	6	152,550
90	Have You Ever Seen the Rain	Creedence Clearwater Revival	#8	1	10	152,540
91	Watching Scotty Grow	Bobby Goldsboro	#11		12	152,370
92	Easy Loving	Freddie Hart	#17		17	151,210
93	Wild World	Cat Stevens	#11		13	151,000
94	Love Her Madly	The Doors	#11		11	150,490
95	Sweet Mary	Wadsworth Mansion	#7	3	13	150,340
96	Brand New Key	Melanie	#1	3	9	148,470
97	All I Ever Need is You	Sonny & Cher	#7	3	11	148,240
98	I Woke Up in Love This Morning	The Partridge Family	#13		11	148,130
99	I Think I'm in Love*	The Partridge Family	#5	3	7	147,350
100	Sooner or Later	The Grass Roots	#9	2	11	145,420

[mikerivera]

Songs that missed
-Amazing Grace
-Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep
-Don’t Knock My Love
-Funky Nassau
-Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again
-Here Comes the Sun
-I Love You For All Seasons
-If Not For You
-Riders on the Storm
-Right On the Tip of My Tongue
-The Wedding Song (There is Love)
-Timothy (I’m as ironically sad about this as you are)
-Trapped By a Thing Called Love
-Won’t Get Fooled Again
-Woodstock

For what it’s worth, while this never had a chance to make my list, Immigrant Song would have made the original list if it’s entire chart run had counted for one year. Which would have happened if it had just come out one year later

[mikerivera]

The next closest 10

Rank	Song	Artist	Points
101	An Old Fashioned Love Song	Three Dog Night	144,660
102	I’ll Meet You Halfway	The Partridge Family	138,850
103	Don’t Knock My Love	Wilson Pickett	135,650
104	Amazing Grace	Judy Collins	135,500
105	Trapped By a Thing Called Love	Denise LaSalle	135,460
106	Sweet Hitch-Hiker	Creedence Clearwater Revival	135,390
107	A Natural Man	Lou Rawls	135,160
108	Rock Steady	Aretha Franklin	132,370
109	Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again	The Fortunes	132,060
110	Funky Nassau	The Beginning of the End	131,540

[inverse]

Sweet Hitchhiker lmfaooooo

Also how did a #11 with 19 weeks get above a #5 with 26 weeks

[mikerivera]

11 of I’ve Found Someone of My Own’s weeks came in the bottom 80. It also spent 7 weeks in the top 20 and 11 weeks in the top 40, compared to 10 in the top 20 and 15 in the top 40 for I’m Tired of Being Alone.

And at least Sweet Hitchhiker missed while Have You Ever Seen the Rain made it. Too bad this is the last time CCR makes any of the lists.

[gikem]

Good God, the early '70s were lame, but at least Have You Ever Seen The Rain, Black Magic Woman, and Your Song all finally made a Year-End! Also, I find it extremely funny how Three Dog Night winded up getting the #1 and the #101 of this year.

As for the playlist, I'm keeping it on Spotify for now since there are so many songs on it that will take some time to transfer over to a YouTube playlist that everyone can view for free. But with that said, 12 songs have been added to the playlist, bringing our total to 388.

[phieaglesfan712]

It Don’t Matter To Me and My Sweet sneaking in the 1970 list makes that year so much better.

1970 and 1971 were great years with artists like Chicago, Bread, The Carpenters, George Harrison, and so on.

[mikerivera]

The 1972 list

Rank	Song	Artist	Peak	Top 10	Hot 100	Points
1	The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face	Roberta Flack	#1 (6 weeks)	11	18	553,510
2	Alone Again (Naturally)	Gilbert O'Sullivan	#1 (6 weeks)	11	18	529,580
3	American Pie	Don McLean	#1 (4 weeks)	9	14	444,410
4	Without You	Harry Nilsson	#1 (4 weeks)	9	17	433,220
5	I Gotcha	Joe Tex	#2	10	21	416,230
6	Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)	Looking Glass	#1	10	16	413,180
7	I Can See Clearly Now	Johnny Nash	#1 (4 weeks)	8	17	406,480
8	A Horse With No Name	America	#1 (3 weeks)	10	21	405,040
9	The Candy Man	Sammy Davis Jr.	#1 (3 weeks)	7	21	399,020
10	Baby, Don't Get Hooked On Me	Mac Davis	#1 (3 weeks)	9	21	391,220
11	Let's Stay Together	Al Green	#1	9	12	367,310
12	I'll Take You There	The Staple Singers	#1	8	15	365,680
13	Lean On Me	Bill Withers	#1 (3 weeks)	7	19	362,710
14	Heart of Gold	Neil Young	#1	8	14	356,760
15	I Am Woman	Helen Reddy	#1	8	19	352,420
16	Oh Girl	The Chi-Lites	#1	7	15	351,970
17	Nights in White Satin	The Moody Blues	#2	7	18	330,520
18	(If Loving You is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right	Luther Ingram	#3	8	16	320,060
19	Brand New Key*	Melanie	#1 (2 weeks)	7	9	313,340
20	The Lion Sleeps Tonight	Robert John	#3	8	17	312,400
21	Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress	The Hollies	#2	8	15	311,360
22	Song Sung Blue	Neil Diamond	#1	6	13	309,070
23	Too Late to Turn Back Now	Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose	#2	8	14	302,830
24	Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast	Wayne Newton	#4	8	20	302,720
25	My Ding-a-Ling	Chuck Berry	#1 (2 weeks)	6	17	302,570
26	Rockin' Robin	Michael Jackson	#2	8	13	295,400
27	Betcha By Golly, Wow	The Stylistics	#3	6	16	289,820
28	Ben	Michael Jackson	#1	7	16	289,590
29	Precious and Few	Climax	#3	7	15	287,720
30	Outa-Space	Billy Preston	#2	7	17	271,320
31	Burning Love	Elvis Presley	#2	6	15	271,030
32	Papa Was a Rollin' Stone	The Temptations	#1	6	12	263,950
33	Down By the Lazy River	The Osmonds	#4	6	14	260,910
34	Nice to Be With You	Gallery	#4	5	22	258,780
35	Back Stabbers	The O'Jays	#3	7	15	258,720
36	Hurting Each Other	The Carpenters	#2	6	12	258,210
37	Everybody Plays the Fool	The Main Ingredient	#3	6	18	255,450
38	I'm Still in Love With You	Al Green	#3	6	12	245,310
39	I'd Love You to Want Me	Lobo	#2	5	14	243,480
40	Black and White	Three Dog Night	#1	5	11	237,520
41	Garden Party	Ricky Nelson	#6	4	19	237,130
42	Look What You've Done For Me	Al Green	#4	6	12	233,180
43	Use Me	Bill Withers	#2	5	12	232,860
44	Puppy Love	Donny Osmond	#3	5	12	230,780
45	If You Don't Know Me By Now	Harold Melvin	#3	5	14	229,440
46	Freddie's Dead	Curtis Mayfield	#4	4	16	229,260
47	I'll Be Around	The Spinners	#3	5	15	227,130
48	Me and Mrs. Jones	Billy Paul	#1 (3 weeks)	4	9	226,420
49	You Ought to Be With Me	Al Green	#3	6	11	224,290
50	Everything I Own	Bread	#5	6	13	224,420
51	Day Dreaming	Aretha Franklin	#5	5	12	223,460
52	Go All the Way	Raspberries	#5	5	18	223,000
53	How Do You Do	Mouth & NacNeil	#8	4	19	222,760
54	Mother and Child Reunion	Paul Simon	#4	4	13	222,530
55	Where is the Love	Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway	#5	6	13	221,770
56	Morning Has Broken	Cat Stevens	#6	4	14	214,340
57	In the Rain	The Dramatics	#5	4	13	213,130
58	Sunshine	Jonathan Edwards	#4	6	9	211,870
59	Never Been to Spain	Three Dog Night	#5	4	11	210,240
60	(Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All	The 5th Dimension	#8	3	16	210,140
61	Rocket Man	Elton John	#6	4	15	209,950
62	Day After Day	Badfinger	#4	4	10	209,850
63	Saturday in the Park	Chicago	#3	4	12	209,070
64	Sylvia's Mother	Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show	#5	4	15	203,150
65	Joy	Apollo 100	#8	4	14	200,360
66	Popcorn	Hot Butter	#9	4	18	199,600
67	The Way of Love	Cher	#7	3	13	197,750
68	Jungle Fever	The Chakachas	#8	3	15	195,630
69	Summer Breeze	Seals & Crofts	#6	3	17	195,380
70	Troglodyte (Cave Man)	The Jimmy Castor Bunch	#6	4	12	191,940
71	School's Out	Alice Cooper	#7	4	13	191,810
72	It Never Rains in Southern California	Albert Hammond	#5	5	11	191,770
73	Hold Your Head Up	Argent	#5	3	15	189,290
74	If I Could Reach You	The 5th Dimension	#10	1	15	185,300
75	A Cowboy's Work is Never Done	Sonny & Cher	#8	3	13	184,590
76	Clair	Gilbert O'Sullivan	#2	4	10	179,520
77	Scorpio	Dennis Coffey	#6	5	8	178,610
78	Clean Up Woman	Betty Wright	#6	3	9	176,550
79	Layla	Derek & The Dominos	#10	1	15	176,420
80	You Don't Mess Around With Jim	Jim Croce	#8	3	13	175,420
81	Hot Rod Lincoln	Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen	#9	2	14	174,710
82	Coconut	Harry Nilsson	#8	2	14	174,340
83	Tumbling Dice	The Rolling Stones	#7	3	10	173,700
84	Bang a Gong (Get it On)	T. Rex	#10	2	15	173,410
85	The Happiest Girl in the Whole USA	Donna Fargo	#11		16	162,280
86	Doctor My Eyes	Jackson Browne	#8	3	12	161,730
87	Rock and Roll	Gary Glitter	#7	4	11	160,360
88	Funny Face	Donna Fargo	#6	2	14	157,370
89	Witchy Woman	Eagles	#9	2	13	156,980
90	Beautiful Sunday	Daniel Boone	#15		20	156,870
91	Slippin' Into Darkness	War	#16		22	155,510
92	Ventura Highway	America	#8	3	11	154,200
93	Listen to the Music	The Doobie Brothers	#11		13	154,110
94	Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues	Danny O'Keefe	#9	2	13	153,560
95	Goodbye to Love	The Carpenters	#7	3	10	152,830
96	You Are Everything	The Stylistics	#9	2	8	150,400
97	Vincent	Don McLean	#12		12	146,920
98	Anticipation	Carly Simon	#13		10	146,120
99	Sweet Seasons	Carole King	#9	2	10	144,030
100	Rockin' Pneumonia - Boogie Woogie Flu	Johnny Rivers	#8	2	13	142,550

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Songs that missed

Calculated out:
-Ain’t Understanding Mellow
-Baby Let Me Take You (In My Arms)
-City of New Orleans
-Day By Day
-Get On the Good Foot
-I Saw the Light
-Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’
-Motorcycle Mama
-Pop That Thang
-Power of Love
-Roundabout
-Sealed With a Kiss
-Speak to the Sky
-Starting All Over Again
-Taxi
-The Witch Queen of New Orleans
-Walkin’ in the Rain With the One I Love

Made 1971: 
-Family Affair

Caught between years: 
-Don’t Say You Don’t Remember
-Drowning in the Sea of Love
-I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony) (both versions)

This was the first year Billboard decided to start the year end window in the previous year. The official year end begins the first week of December 1971. It ended the third week of November 1972, which was the earliest any chart had ended up to that point. That record wouldn’t stand for long though...

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The closest 10

Rank	Song	Artist	Points
101	I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)	The New Seekers	141,630
102	Don’t Say You Don’t Remember	Beverly Bremers	141,170
103	Family Affair*	Sly & The Stone Family	140,980
104	Something’s Wrong With Me	Austin Roberts	139,330
105	Roundabout	Yes	139,000
106	Motorcycle Mama	Sailcat	138,860
107	I’m Stone in Love With You	The Stylistics	137,820
108	Back Off Boogaloo	Ringo Starr	137,730
109	Starting All Over Again	Mel & Tim	137,610
110	The Guitar Man	Bread	137,190

[gikem]

Lol @ both versions of that infamous Coca-Cola commercial jingle getting caught between years, but ouch @ Roundabout getting calculated out…

[phieaglesfan712]

Feb 12, 2022 17:59:42 GMT -5 gikem said:

Lol @ both versions of that infamous Coca-Cola commercial jingle getting caught between years, but ouch @ Roundabout getting calculated out…

Oddly enough, another song on that list (Coconut) was also used in a Coca-Cola commercial.

But the 1972 list would look a lot better with classics like Roundabout, City of New Orleans, I Saw the Light, and The Guitar Man.

[Private Dancer]

1972 what a good year! Staple Singers, Spinners, AL Green, Roberta Flack and Bill Withers!

[mikerivera]

Full disclosure, I have the 1973 and 1974 lists completed, but my laptop stopped working yesterday while I was creating the post, and I’ve been struggling to find another way to format my lists. So just be on hold, and I’ll have it posted whenever I can find a way

[phieaglesfan712]

My guess is that Tie a Yellow Ribbon is going to remain the #1 on the 1973 list, but Seasons in the Sun will top the 1974 list.

[Private Dancer]

My guess is Midnight Train To Georgia will be #9 on the year end. Until You Come Back To Me might be a little lower than its #11 YE position. Also, Neither One Of Us will be in the 20s of the year end.

[Private Dancer]

Touch Me In The Morning might be #15

[mikerivera]

Good news, I finally got my laptop fixed! It's long past time for me to post this, so here's the 1973 list

Rank	Song	Artist	Peak	Top 10	Hot 100	Points
1	Let's Get it On	Marvin Gaye	#1 (2 weeks)	13	19	513,060
2	Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree	Tony Orlando & Dawn	#1 (4 weeks)	11	23	484,780
3	Killing Me Softly With His Song	Roberta Flack	#1 (5 weeks)	11	16	455,660
4	My Love	Paul McCartney & Wings	#1 (4 weeks)	9	18	448,420
5	Keep On Truckin'	Eddie Kendricks	#1 (2 weeks)	10	19	421,250
6	Bad, Bad Leroy Brown	Jim Croce	#1 (2 weeks)	8	22	413,000
7	You're So Vain	Carly Simon	#1 (3 weeks)	9	12	410,100
8	Midnight Train to Georgia	Gladys Knight & The Pips	#1 (2 weeks)	8	18	409,580
9	Half-Breed	Cher	#1 (2 weeks)	8	20	392,580
10	Crocodile Rock	Elton John	#1 (3 weeks)	9	13	388,530
11	Brother Louie	Stories	#1 (2 weeks)	8	18	384,740
12	Will it Go Round in Circles	Billy Preston	#1 (2 weeks)	8	22	381,290
13	Touch Me in the Morning	Diana Ross	#1	8	21	378,060
14	The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia	Vicki Lawrence	#1 (2 weeks)	7	20	362,160
15	Delta Dawn	Helen Reddy	#1	8	20	351,950
16	Playground in My Mind	Clint Holmes	#2	8	23	342,190
17	Frankenstein	The Edgar Winter Group	#1	7	20	340,270
18	Angie	The Rolling Stones	#1	7	16	338,880
19	You Are the Sunshine of My Life	Stevie Wonder	#1	7	17	326,020
20	Little Willy	Sweet	#3	7	23	316,290
21	Top of the World	The Carpenters	#1 (2 weeks)	8	13	315,280
22	We're an American Band	Grand Funk Railroad	#1	6	17	312,580
23	Pillow Talk	Sylvia Robinson	#3	7	21	311,640
24	Loves Me Like a Rock	Paul Simon	#2	7	16	311,020
25	Dueling Banjos	Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell	#2	6	14	307,990
26	Live and Let Die	Paul McCartney & Wings	#2	7	14	296,190
27	The Morning After	Maureen McGovern	#1 (2 weeks)	6	15	291,660
28	Neither One of Us (Wants to Be  the First to Say Goodbye)	Gladys Knight & The Pips	#2	6	16	289,940
29	Love Train	The O'Jays	#1	6	14	289,670
30	That Lady	The Isley Brothers	#6	6	20	288,180
31	Daniel	Elton John	#2	7	15	287,280
32	Heartbeat-It's a Lovebeat	The DeFranco Family	#3	7	17	287,270
33	Shambala	Three Dog Night	#3	6	16	284,120
34	Photograph	Ringo Starr	#1	6	13	282,590
35	Drift Away	Dobie Gray	#5	4	21	280,510
36	Ramblin' Man	The Allman Brothers	#2	6	16	279,880
37	Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)	George Harrison	#1	7	14	279,300
38	Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose	Tony Orlando & Dawn	#3	6	16	275,630
39	Last Song	Edward Bear	#3	6	15	273,890
40	The Cisco Kid	War	#2	6	15	270,860
41	Superstition	Stevie Wonder	#1	6	9	270,850
42	I'm Just Gonna Love You a Little More Baby	Barry White	#3	6	18	269,970
43	Why Me	Kris Kristofferson	#16		38	267,930
44	The Most Beautiful Girl	Charlie Rich	#1 (2 weeks)	5	14	267,380
45	Kodachrome	Paul Simon	#2	7	14	266,620
46	Space Race	Billy Preston	#4	6	15	265,340
47	Yesterday Once More	The Carpenters	#2	6	14	262,750
48	Sing	The Carpenters	#3	6	14	256,660
49	Could it Be I'm Falling in Love	The Spinners	#4	6	14	255,230
50	Just You N' Me	Chicago	#4	6	14	254,120
51	Paper Roses	Marie Osmond	#5	6	16	253,520
52	Smoke on the Water	Deep Purple	#4	5	16	251,250
53	Higher Ground	Stevie Wonder	#4	6	14	246,150
54	Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001)	Deodato	#2	6	12	244,820
55	Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got)	The Four Tops	#4	6	15	244,710
56	Right Place Wrong Time	Dr. John	#9	4	20	244,010
57	Goodbye Yellow Brick Road	Elton John	#2	6	10	243,690
58	Stuck in the Middle With You	Stealers Wheel	#6	4	18	242,590
59	Danny's Song	Anne Murray	#7	6	18	237,070
60	Wildflower	Skylark	#9	2	21	227,330
61	Oh, Babe, What Would You Say	Hurricane Smith	#3	5	10	217,870
62	Long Train Runnin'	The Doobie Brothers	#8	3	18	217,260
63	Diamond Girl	Seals & Croft	#6	2	18	213,980
64	Feelin' Stronger Every Day	Chicago	#10	2	16	211,900
65	Get Down	Gilbert O'Sullivan	#7	3	15	210,910
66	The Cover of the Rolling Stone	Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show	#6	3	15	207,310
67	Why Can't We Live Together	Timmy Thomas	#3	5	9	205,790
68	Monster Mash*	Bobby 'Boris' Pickett	#10	1	20	204,710
69	Rocky Mountain High	John Denver	#9	4	13	202,440
70	Natural High	Bloodstone	#10	1	19	200,900
71	Break Up to Make Up	The Stylistics	#5	4	14	198,860
72	Daddy's Home	Jermaine Jackson	#9	2	14	198,600
73	If You Want Me to Stay	Sly & The Stone Family	#12		17	196,950
74	Here I Am (Come and Take Me)	Al Green	#10	2	15	195,230
75	The Love I Lost	Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes	#7	3	14	191,770
76	I Believe in You (You Believe in Me)	Johnnie Taylor	#11		16	191,420
77	Do it Again	Steely Dan	#6	4	10	190,900
78	Hocus Pocus	Focus	#9	3	19	189,700
79	My Maria	B.W. Stevenson	#9	1	16	186,750
80	Masterpiece	The Temptations	#7	2	14	186,260
81	Don't Expect Me to Be Your Friend	Lobo	#8	4	12	185,250
82	Reeling in the Years	Steely Dan	#11		16	184,360
83	Your Momma Don't Dance	Lggins & Messina	#4	5	8	182,860
84	All I Know	Art Garfunkel	#9	2	14	182,150
85	Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy	Bette Midler	#8	2	16	180,340
86	Yes We Can Can	The Pointer Sisters	#11		16	179,390
87	Hello it's Me	Todd Rundgren	#5	4	13	177,960
88	Me and Mrs. Jones*	Billy Paul	#3	3	7	175,560
89	Dancing in the Moonlight	King Harvest	#13		12	175,530
90	I Got a Name	Jim Croce	#10	1	13	173,350
91	The Twelfth of Never	Donny Osmond	#8	4	13	173,150
92	Gypsy Man	War	#8	2	13	168,830
93	Knockin' On Heaven's Door	Bob Dylan	#12		16	168,700
94	I'm Doin' Fine Now	New York City	#17		20	166,890
95	One of a Kind (Love Affair)	The Spinners	#11		15	164,120
96	Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)	Helen Reddy	#3	4	9	161,850
97	Time in a Bottle	Jim Croce	#1	3	7	154,340
98	Stir it Up	Johnny Nash	#12		14	154,300
99	The World is a Ghetto	War	#7	3	9	153,770
100	Behind Closed Doors	Charlie Rich	#15		19	153,490

[mikerivera]

Songs that missed

Calculated out:
-Daisy a Day
-Do You Wanna Dance
-Free Ride
-Funky Worm
-Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
-Money
-Peaceful
-So Very Hard to Go
-Space Oddity

Made 1972:
-Clair
-Funny Face
-It Never Rains in Southern California
-Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone
-Rockin’ Pneumonia — Boogie Woogie Flu

Caught between years:
-Superfly

[mikerivera]

The best closest 10

Rank	Song	Artist	Points
101	Uneasy Rider	The Charlie Daniel Band	152,970
102	Call Me (Come Back Home)	Al Green	152,550
103	Trouble Man	Marvin Gaye	151,280
104	Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting	Elton John	147,140
105	Peaceful	Helen Reddy	146,880
106	If You’re Ready (Come Go With Me)	The Staple Singers	144,070
107	Money	Pink Floyd	143,430
108	You’re a Special Part of Me	Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye	142,210
109	Do You Wanna Dance	Bette Midler	140,940
110	So Very Hard to Go	Tower of Power	140,870