Top 40 Singles of 1971:

1. Three Dog Night - Joy to the World
2. Dawn - Knock Three Times
3. Rod Stewart - Maggie Mae/Reason to Believe
4. Carole King - It's Too Late/I Feel the Earth Move
5. Melanie - Brand New Key
6. The Osmonds - One Bad Apple
7. The Raiders - Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian)
8. The Bee Gees - How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
9. Sly & the Family Stone - Family Affair
10. Donny Osmond - Go Away Little Girl
11. Isaac Hayes - Theme From Shaft
12. Cher - Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves
13. The Temptations - Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)
14. Janis Joplin - Me and Bobby McGee
15. The Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar
16. The Jackson 5 - Never Can Say Goodbye
17. The Honey Cone - Want Ads
18. James Taylor - You've Got a Friend
19. The Carpenters - Superstar
20. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
21. The Carpenters - Rainy Days and Mondays
22. Ocean - Put Your Hand in the Hand
23. Jean Knight - Mr. Big Stuff
24. Tom Jones - She's a Lady
25. John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads
26. The Chi-Lites - Have You Seen Her
27. Aretha Franklin - Spanish Harlem
28. The Osmonds- Yo-Yo
29. Joan Baez - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
30. Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine
31. Lynn Anderson - Rose Garden
32. Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose - Treat Her Like a Lady
33. Paul & Linda McCartney - Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
34. The Carpenters - For All We Know
35. The Jackson 5 - Mama's Pearl
36. The Undisputed Truth - Smiling Faces Sometimes
37. John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band - Imagine
38. Bread - Baby I'm-a Want You
39. The Bee Gees - Lonely Days
40. Santana - Black Magic Woman

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This list was compiled by Fred Bronson. For the full list of the top 100 songs of this year, get his book Hottest Hot 100 Hits at the link below:

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