List of Adult Contemporary top 10 singles in 1973 (U.S.)
This is a list of songs that have charted in the top ten of the Billboard Adult Contemporary in 1973.
Top-ten singles
Top ten entry date |
Single |
Artist(s) |
Peak |
Peak date |
Weeks in top ten |
References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Singles from 1972 |
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December 23 |
"Separate Ways" |
Elvis Presley |
3 |
January 20 |
7 |
|
"Been to Canaan" |
Carole King |
1 |
January 13 |
5 |
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"Oh, Babe, What Would You Say?" |
Hurricane Smith |
2 |
January 20 |
7 |
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December 30 |
"You're So Vain" |
Carly Simon |
1 |
January 20 |
8 |
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Singles from 1973 |
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January 6 |
"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" |
Blue HaZe |
5 |
January 13 |
4 |
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January 13 |
"Rocky Mountain High" |
John Denver |
3 |
February 10 |
9 |
|
"Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight" |
James Taylor |
3 |
February 3 |
5 |
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January 20 |
"Pieces of April" |
Three Dog Night |
6 |
January 20 |
2 |
|
"Me and Mrs. Jones" |
Billy Paul |
10 |
January 20 |
1 |
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January 27 |
"Don't Expect Me to Be Your Friend" |
Lobo |
1 |
February 3 |
7 |
|
"Looking Through the Eyes of Love" |
The Partridge Family |
9 |
January 27 |
1 |
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"Dreidel" |
Don McLean |
7 |
February 10 |
5 |
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February 3 |
"Dueling Banjos" |
Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell |
1 |
February 17 |
7 |
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"Last Song" |
Edward Bear |
1 |
March 3 |
8 |
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"I'm Never Gonna Be Alone Anymore" |
Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose |
10 |
February 3 |
2 |
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February 10 |
"Living Together, Growing Together" |
The 5th Dimension |
5 |
February 17 |
4 |
|
"[...] Me Softly with His Song" |
Roberta Flack |
2 |
March 17 |
9 |
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February 17 |
"Good Morning Heartache" |
Diana Ross |
8 |
February 17 |
2 |
|
"Danny's Song" |
Anne Murray |
1 |
March 17 |
8 |
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February 24 |
"Big City Miss Ruth Ann" |
Gallery |
10 |
February 24 |
1 |
|
March 3 |
"Aubrey" |
Bread |
4 |
March 17 |
5 |
|
"Do You Want to Dance?" |
Bette Midler |
8 |
March 10 |
2 |
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"Rosalie" |
Sam Neely |
9 |
March 10 |
2 |
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March 10 |
"Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" |
Tony Orlando & Dawn |
1 |
April 7 |
10 |
|
March 17 |
"Sing" |
The Carpenters |
1 |
March 31 |
8 |
|
"Peaceful" |
Helen Reddy |
2 |
April 14 |
7 |
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"Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001)" |
Deodato |
5 |
April 7 |
5 |
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"Daisy a Day" |
Jud Strunk |
4 |
April 7 |
6 |
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March 24 |
"One Less Set of Footsteps" |
Jim Croce |
9 |
March 24 |
1 |
|
March 31 |
"The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" |
Vicki Lawrence |
6 |
April 7 |
4 |
|
April 7 |
"Out of the Question" |
Gilbert O'Sullivan |
2 |
May 12 |
8 |
|
"Cook with Honey" |
Judy Collins |
10 |
April 7 |
1 |
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April 14 |
"You Are the Sunshine of My Life" |
Stevie Wonder |
1 |
April 28 |
9 |
|
"Stir It Up" |
Johnny Nash |
6 |
April 21 |
3 |
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"The Right Thing to Do" |
Carly Simon |
4 |
May 5 |
9 |
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April 21 |
"The Twelfth of Never" |
Donny Osmond |
7 |
May 5 |
3 |
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April 28 |
"And I Love You So" |
Perry Como |
1 |
May 26 |
10 |
|
"Wildflower" |
Skylark |
5 |
May 19 |
5 |
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May 5 |
"Daniel" |
Elton John |
1 |
May 12 |
8 |
|
"Thinking of You" |
Loggins & Messina |
7 |
May 26 |
5 |
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May 12 |
"It Sure Took a Long, Long Time" |
Lobo |
3 |
May 26 |
4 |
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"My Love" |
Wings |
1 |
June 2 |
8 |
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May 19 |
"I'm Doin' Fine Now" |
New York City |
8 |
May 26 |
3 |
|
June 2 |
"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" |
Bette Midler |
1 |
June 23 |
10 |
|
"Playground in My Mind" |
Clint Holmes |
7 |
June 9 |
3 |
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June 9 |
"Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" |
George Harrison |
4 |
June 16 |
6 |
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"What AbOUT Me" |
Anne Murray |
2 |
June 23 |
6 |
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"The Teddy Bear Song" |
Barbara Fairchild |
9 |
June 9 |
1 |
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June 16 |
"Kodachrome" |
Paul Simon |
2 |
July 7 |
6 |
|
"Behind Closed Doors" |
Charlie Rich |
8 |
June 16 |
2 |
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"You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart)" |
The Stylistics |
4 |
July 7 |
4 |
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June 23 |
"Yesterday Once More" |
The Carpenters |
1 |
July 7 |
8 |
|
June 30 |
"Never, Never, Never (Grande, Grande, Grande)" |
Shirley Bassey |
8 |
June 30 |
3 |
|
"Shambala" |
Three Dog Night |
3 |
July 14 |
4 |
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July 7 |
"Diamond Girl" |
Seals & Crofts |
4 |
July 21 |
5 |
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"Touch Me in the Morning" |
Diana Ross |
1 |
July 28 |
8 |
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July 14 |
"Get Down" |
Gilbert O'Sullivan |
3 |
August 11 |
9 |
|
July 21 |
"Delta Dawn" |
Helen Reddy |
1 |
August 4 |
10 |
|
"How Can I Tell Her" |
Lobo |
4 |
August 4 |
7 |
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"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" |
Jim Croce |
9 |
July 21 |
1 |
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July 28 |
"Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose" |
Tony Orlando & Dawn |
1 |
August 18 |
9 |
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"The Morning After" |
Maureen McGovern |
6 |
August 4 |
3 |
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"Clouds" |
David Gates |
3 |
August 25 |
7 |
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August 11 |
"You Light Up My Life/Believe in Humanity" |
Carole King |
6 |
September 1 |
5 |
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"Live and Let Die" |
Wings |
8 |
August 25 |
4 |
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August 18 |
"Send a Little Love My Way" |
Anne Murray |
10 |
August 18 |
2 |
|
August 25 |
"Loves Me Like a Rock" |
Paul Simon with the Dixie Hummingbirds |
1 |
September 8 |
10 |
|
"My Maria" |
B.W. Stevenson |
1 |
September 22 |
9 |
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September 1 |
"Loving Arms" |
Dobie Gray |
7 |
September 15 |
3 |
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September 8 |
"I'm Coming Home" |
Johnny Mathis |
1 |
September 29 |
8 |
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September 15 |
"Half-Breed" |
Cher |
3 |
September 29 |
7 |
|
"In the Midnight Hour" |
Cross Country |
6 |
September 22 |
5 |
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"It's a Small Small World" |
The Mike Curb Congregation |
9 |
September 15 |
1 |
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"Freedom for the Stallion" |
The Hues Corporation |
9 |
September 22 |
2 |
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September 22 |
"Ashes to Ashes" |
The 5th Dimension |
7 |
September 29 |
3 |
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"Rhapsody in Blue" |
Deodato |
10 |
September 22 |
2 |
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September 29 |
"All I Know" |
Art Garfunkel |
1 |
October 6 |
10 |
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"Let Me In" |
The Osmonds |
4 |
October 20 |
6 |
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"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" |
Bob Dylan |
5 |
October 20 |
8 |
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October 6 |
"Paper Roses" |
Marie Osmond |
1 |
November 3 |
10 |
|
October 13 |
"Jesse" |
Roberta Flack |
3 |
October 20 |
6 |
|
October 20 |
"We May Never Pass This Way (Again)" |
Seals & Crofts |
2 |
November 10 |
7 |
|
October 27 |
"The Most Beautiful Girl" |
Charlie Rich |
1 |
November 10 |
14 |
|
"Top of the World" |
The Carpenters |
2 |
November 17 |
9 |
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November 3 |
"Friends" |
Bette Midler |
9 |
November 3 |
2 |
|
"I Got a Name" |
Jim Croce |
4 |
November 24 |
6 |
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November 10 |
"Photograph" |
Ringo Starr |
3 |
December 8 |
8 |
|
November 24 |
"Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)" |
Helen Reddy |
1 |
December 1 |
11 |
|
"Just You 'n' Me" |
Chicago |
7 |
December 8 |
7 |
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"Coraz=n" |
Carole King |
5 |
December 8 |
4 |
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December 8 |
"Who's in the Strawberry Patch with Sally" |
Tony Orlando & Dawn |
3 |
December 15 |
7 |
|
"Let Me Be There" |
Olivia Newton-John |
3 |
December 29 |
10 |
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December 15 |
"My Music" |
Loggins & Messina |
10 |
December 15 |
1 |
|
"Time in a Bottle" |
Jim Croce |
1 |
December 29 |
10 |
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December 22 |
"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" |
Elton John |
7 |
December 29 |
5 |
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1972 peaks
Top ten entry date |
Single |
Artist(s) |
Peak |
Peak date |
Weeks in top ten |
References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
November 11 |
"It Never Rains in Southern California" |
Albert Hammond |
2 |
December 16 |
9 |
|
November 18 |
"Clair" |
Gilbert O'Sullivan |
1 |
December 9 |
9 |
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"Funny Face" |
Donna Fargo |
5 |
December 16 |
8 |
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December 9 |
"Sweet Surrender" |
Bread |
1 |
December 30 |
7 |
|
"Walk on Water" |
Neil Diamond |
2 |
December 30 |
6 |
1974 peaks
Top ten entry date |
Single |
Artist(s) |
Peak |
Peak date |
Weeks in top ten |
References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
December 22 |
"The Way We Were" |
Barbara Streisand |
1 |
January 12 |
12 |
|
December 29 |
"Show and Tell" |
Al Wilson |
3 |
January 26 |
7 |
Notes
The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending September 8, 1973.
The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending November 17, 1973.
See also
- List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1973 (U.S.)