40
Jerry Lee Lewis
31
Francis Lai & His Orchestra
29
Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway
| Hits of 1971 | Yearbook |
| Oscar: Best Picture: | The
French Connection |
| Oscar: Best Actor | Gene Hackman in The French Connection |
| Oscar: Best Actress | Jane Fonda in Klute |
| Oscar: Best Song | "Theme From Shaft" from Shaft
(also nominated: "Bless the Beast and the Children") |
| 1900 Yesterday | 33 |
Liz Damon's Orient Express | |
| Absolutely Right | 26 |
Five Man Electrical Band | |
| Albert Flasher | 29 |
The Guess Who | |
| All Day Music | 35 |
War | |
| An Old Fashioned Love Song | 4 |
Three Dog Night | |
| Another Dayz | 5 |
Paul McCartney | |
| Anticipation | 13 |
Carly Simon | |
| Ask Me No Questions | 40 |
B.B. King | |
| Baby Let Me Kiss You | 29 |
King Floyd | |
| Bangla-Desh | 23 |
George Harrison | |
| Battle Hymn of Lt. Calley | 37 |
C Company featuring Terry Nelson | |
| Behind Blue Eyes | 34 |
The Who | |
| Birds of a Feather | 23 |
Raiders | |
| Black Dog | 15 |
Led Zeppelin | |
| Blue Money | 23 |
Van Morrison | |
| Booty Butt (instrumental) | 36 |
Ray Charles Orchestra | |
| The Breakdown (Part 1) | 31 |
Rufus Thomas | |
| Bring the Boys Home | 12 |
Freda Payne | |
| Brown Sugar | 1 |
The Rolling Stones | |
| Burning Bridges | 34 |
Mike Curb Congregation | |
| Can I Get a Witness | 39 |
Lee Michaels | |
| Charity Ball | 40 |
Fanny | |
| Chicago / We Can Change the World | 35 |
Graham Nash | |
| Chick-A-Boom (Don't Ya Jes' Love It) | 9 |
Daddy Dewdrop | |
| Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep | 20 |
Mac & Katie Kissoon | |
| Clean Up Woman | 6 |
Betty Wright | |
| Cool Aid (instrumental) | 29 |
Paul Humphrey & his Cool Aid Chemists | |
| Country Road | 37 |
James Taylor | |
| Cried Like a Baby | 16 |
Bobby Sherman | |
| D.O.A. | 36 |
Bloodrock | |
| Desiderata | 8 |
Les Crane | |
| (Do The) Push and Pull (Part 1) | 25 |
Rufus Thomas | |
| Do You Know What I Mean | 6 |
Lee Michaels | |
| Doesn't Somebody Want To Be Wanted | 6 |
The Partridge Family | |
| Don't Change On Me | 36 |
Ray Charles | |
| Don't Knock My Love (Part 1) | 13 |
Wilson Pickett | |
| Don't Let The Green Grass Fool You | 17 |
Wilson Pickett | |
| (Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go | 29 |
Curtis Mayfield | |
| Double Barrel | 22 |
Dave & Ansil Collins | |
| Double Lovin' | 14 |
The Osmonds | |
| Draggin' the Line | 4 |
Tommy James | |
| Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream) | 31 |
Glen Campbell | |
| Drowning in the Sea of Love | 11 |
Joe Simon | |
| The Drum | 29 |
Bobby Sherman | |
| Easy Loving | 17 |
Freddie Hart | |
| Eighteen | 21 |
Alice Cooper | |
| Escape-ism (Part 1) | 35 |
James Brown | |
| Everybody's Everything | 12 |
Santana | |
| Family Affair | 1 |
Sly & The Family Stone | |
| Fire and Water | 24 |
Wilson Pickett | |
| (For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People | 26 |
The Chi-Lites | |
| Free | 20 |
Chicago | |
| Friends | 34 |
Elton John | |
| Funky Nassau (Part 1) | 15 |
The Beginning Of the End | |
| Get It On | 24 |
Chase | |
| Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved (Part 1) | 34 |
James Brown | |
| Go Down Gamblin' | 32 |
Blood, Sweat & Tears | |
| Got to Be There | 4 |
Michael Jackson | |
| Groove Me | 6 |
King Floyd | |
| Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves | 1 |
Cher | |
| Hallelujah | 33 |
Sweathog | |
| Have You Ever Seen the Rain | 8 |
Creedence Clearwater Revival | |
| Have You Seen Her | 3 |
The Chi-Lites | |
| Heavy Makes You Happy (Sha-Na-Boom Boom) | 27 |
The Staple Singers | |
| Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again | 8 |
The Fortunes | |
| Hey Big Brother | 19 |
Rare Earth | |
| High Time We Went | 22 |
Joe Cocker | |
| Hot Pants (She Got to Use What She Got to Get What She Wants | 15 |
James Brown | |
| I Am... I Said | 4 |
Neil Diamond | |
| I Don't Blame You At All | 18 |
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles | |
| I Don't Want to Do Wrong | 17 |
Gladys Knight & The Pips | |
| I Hear You Knockin' | 4 |
Dave Edmunds | |
| I Just Want To Celebrate | 7 |
Rare Earth | |
| (I Know) I'm Losing You | 24 |
Rod Stewart with Faces | |
| I Likes to Do It (instrumental) | 38 |
People's Choice | |
| I Love You for All Seasons | 21 |
The Fuzz | |
| I Play and Sing | 25 |
Dawn | |
| I Woke Up in Love This Morning | 13 |
The Partridge Family | |
| I'd Love To Change the World | 40 |
Ten Years After | |
| I'll Meet You Halfway | 9 |
The Partridge Family | |
| I'm a Greedy Man (Part 1) | 35 |
James Brown | |
| I'm Comin' Home | 40 |
Tommy James | |
| I'm Leavin' | 36 |
Elvis Presley | |
| I've Found Someone of My Own | 5 |
The Free Movement | |
| If Not for You | 25 |
Olivia Newton-John | |
| If You Really Love Me | 8 |
Stevie Wonder | |
| Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) | 9 |
Marvin Gaye | |
| It's One of Those Nights (Yes Love) | 20 |
The Partridge Family | |
| Jody's Got Your Girl and Gone | 28 |
Johnnie Taylor | |
| Just Seven Numbers (Can Straighten Out My Life) | 40 |
Four Tops | |
| K-Jee (instrumental) | 39 |
The Nite-Liters | |
| Kiss An Angel Good Mornin' | 21 |
Charley Pride | |
| Let Your Love Go | 28 |
Bread | |
| Levon | 24 |
Elton John | |
| Liar | 7 |
Three Dog Night | |
| Long Ago and Far Away | 31 |
James Taylor | |
| Love Her Madly | 11 |
The Doors | |
| Love Means (You Never Have to Say You're Sorry) | 39 |
Sounds of Sunshine | |
| Love the One You're With | 18 |
The Isley Brothers | |
| The Love We Had (Stays on My Mind) | 30 |
The Dells | |
| Love's Lines, Angles and Rhymes | 19 |
The 5th Dimension | |
| Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again) | 26 |
Kris Kristofferson | |
| Lowdown | 35 |
Chicago | |
| Maggie May | 1 |
Rod Stewart | |
| Make It Funky (Part 1) | 22 |
James Brown | |
| Make Me the Woman That You Go Home To | 27 |
Gladys Knight & The Pips | |
| Mama's Pearl | 2 |
The Jackson 5 | |
| Maybe Tomorrow | 20 |
The Jackson 5 | |
| Me And You And A Dog Named Boo | 5 |
Lobo | |
| Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) | 4 |
Marvin Gaye | |
| Mighty Clouds Of Joy | 34 |
B.J. Thomas | |
| Mother Freedom | 37 |
Bread | |
| Mr. Big Stuff | 2 |
Jean Knight | |
| Nathan Jones | 16 |
The Supremes | |
| A Natural Man | 17 |
Lou Rawls | |
| The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down | 3 |
Joan Baez | |
| No Love At All | 16 |
B.J. Thomas | |
| Once You Understand | 23 |
Think | |
| One Bad Apple | 1 |
The Osmonds | |
| One Fine Morning | 24 |
Lighthouse | |
| One Man Band | 19 |
Three Dog Night | |
| One Toke Over The Line | 10 |
Brewer & Shipley | |
| Only You Know and I Know | 20 |
Delaney & Bonnie and Friends | |
| Pay to the Piper | 13 |
Chairmen of the Board | |
| Power to the People | 11 |
John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band | |
| Questions 67 And 68 | 24 |
Chicago | |
| Rain Dance | 19 |
The Guess Who | |
| Reach Out I'll Be There | 29 |
Diana Ross | |
| Respect Yourself | 12 |
The Staple Singers | |
| Resurrection Shuffle | 40 |
Ashton, Gardner & Dyke | |
| Resurrection Shuffle | 38 |
Tom Jones | |
| Riders On the Storm | 14 |
The Doors | |
| Right on the Tip of My Tongue | 23 |
Brenda & The Tabulations | |
| Rings | 17 |
Cymarron | |
| River Deep - Mountain High | 14 |
The Supremes & The Four Tops | |
| Rock Steady | 9 |
Aretha Franklin | |
| Saturday Morning Confusion | 28 |
Bobby Russell | |
| She's a Lady | 2 |
Tom Jones | |
| She's All I Got | 39 |
Freddie North | |
| She's Not Just Another Woman | 11 |
The 8th Day | |
| Signs | 3 |
Five Man Electrical Band | |
| Sit Yourself Down | 37 |
Stephen Stills | |
| Smiling Faces Sometimes | 3 |
The Undisputed Truth | |
| Somebody's Been Sleeping | 30 |
100 Proof (Aged In Soul) | |
| Sooner or Later | 9 |
The Grass Roots | |
| Soul Power (Part 1) | 29 |
James Brown | |
| Stagger Lee | 25 |
Tommy Roe | |
| Stay Awhile | 7 |
The Bells | |
| Stick-Up | 11 |
The Honey Cone | |
| Stones | 14 |
Neil Diamond | |
| Stop, Look, Listen (to Your Heart) | 39 |
The Stylistics | |
| The Story in Your Eyes | 23 |
The Moody Blues | |
| Sugar Daddy | 10 |
The Jackson 5 | |
| Summer Sand | 33 |
Dawn | |
| Superstar | 14 |
Murray Head | |
| Superstar (Remember How You Got Where You Are) | 18 |
The Temptations | |
| Surrender | 38 |
Diana Ross | |
| Sweet And Innocent | 7 |
Donny Osmond | |
| Sweet City Woman | 8 |
Stampeders | |
| Sweet Hitch-Hiker | 6 |
Creedence Clearwater Revival | |
| Temptation Eyes | 15 |
The Grass Roots | |
| That's the Way I Feel About 'Cha | 27 |
Bobby Womack & Peace | |
| Theme from "Shaft" | 1 |
Isaac Hayes | |
| Thin Line Between Love and Hate | 15 |
The Persuaders | |
| Timothy | 17 |
The Buoys | |
| Tired of Being Alone | 11 |
Al Green | |
| Toast and Marmalade for Tea | 20 |
Tin Tin | |
| Trapped by a Thing Called Love | 13 |
Denise LaSalle | |
| Treat Her Like A Lady | 3 |
Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose | |
| Two Divided by Love | 16 |
The Grass Roots | |
| Want Ads | 1 |
The Honey Cone | |
| What Are You Doing Sunday | 39 |
Dawn featuring Tony Orlando | |
| What Is Life | 10 |
George Harrison | |
| What's Going On | 2 |
Marvin Gaye | |
| Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get | 9 |
The Dramatics | |
| When You're Hot, You're Hot | 9 |
Jerry Reed | |
| Where Did They Go, Lord? | 33 |
Elvis Presley | |
| Where You Lead | 40 |
Barbra Streisand | |
| Wild Horses | 28 |
The Rolling Stones | |
| Wild Night | 28 |
Van Morrison | |
| The Witch Queen of New Orleans | 21 |
Redbone | |
| Women's Love Rights | 36 |
Laura Lee | |
| Won't Get Fooled Again | 15 |
The Who | |
| Woodstock | 23 |
Matthews' Southern Comfort (Ian Matthews) | |
| Yo-Yo | 3 |
The Osmonds | |
| You Are Everything | 9 |
The Stylistics | |
| You're All I Need To Get By | 19 |
Aretha Franklin | |
| You've Got to Crawl (Before You Walk) | 28 |
The 8th Day | |
| Your Move / (I've Seen) All Good People | 40 |
Yes |