1973 Year End Charts

Top Songs of 1973
Rank	Song	Artist	Plays
1	Brain Damage/Eclipse	Pink Floyd	139
2	Live and Let Die	Wings	112
3	Crocodile Rock	Elton John	112
4	The Ocean	Led Zeppelin	107
5	Free Bird	Lynyrd Skynyrd	103
6	Piano Man	Billy Joel	102
7	Goodbye Yellow Brick Road	Elton John	101
8	Let's Get it On	Marvin Gaye	101
9	The Great Gig in the Sky	Pink Floyd	99
10	Rocky Mountain High	John Denver	96
11	Killing Me Softly With His Song	Roberta Flack	93
12	D'yer Mak'er	Led Zeppelin	91
13	The Way We Were	Barbra Streisand	90
14	Us and Them	Pink Floyd	89
15	Candle in the Wind	Elton John	85
16	Pony Boy	Allman Brothers Band	83
17	Everybody Needs a Friend	Wishbone Ash	83
18	La Grange	ZZ Top	80
19	Drift Away	Dobie Gray	79
20	Simple Man	Lynyrd Skynyrd	79
21	Jessica	Allman Brothers Band	78
22	Daniel	Elton John	77
23	La Petite Fille de la Mer	Vangelis	77
24	Money	Pink Floyd	76
25	No Quarter	Led Zeppelin	74
26	Love Train	The O'Jays	72
27	Me and You and a Dog Named Boo	Lobo	71
28	Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree	Dawn, Tony Orlando	70
29	Time in a Bottle	Jim Croce	70
30	Welcome	Santana	69
31	Time	Pink Floyd	69
32	Mamaloi	The Doobie Brothers	68
33	Desperado	Eagles	67
34	Funy Music Sho Nuff Turns Me On	The Temptations	66
35	Steamroller Blues	Elvis Presley	66
36	I Got a Name	Jim Croce	66
37	Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)	Elton John	65
38	Oo-de-lally	Roger Miller	65
39	The Song Remains the Same	Led Zeppelin	65
40	Tubular Bells (The Exorcist)	Mike Oldfield	64
41	Whiskey in the Jay	Thin Lizzy	63
42	Woman from Tokyo	Deep Purple	62
43	High Flying Bird	Elton John	61
44	Stuck in the Middle with You	Stealers Wheel	61
45	Love Reign O'er Me	The Who	60
46	I Just Want to Make Love to You	Foghat	59
47	Delta Dawn	Helen Reddy	59
48	Free Ride	The Edgar Winter Group	58
49	The Rock	The Who	56
50	Yours is the Light	Santana	56
1973
Top Albums
Rank	Album	Artist	Units (M)
1	The Dark Side of the Moon	Pink Floyd	12.7
2	Goodbye Yellow Brick Road	Elton John	8.1
3	Houses of the Holy	Led Zeppelin	7.7
4	Let's Get It On	Marvin Gaye	5.6
5	Pronounced' Leh-'Nerd 'Skin-'Nerd	Lynyrd Skynyrd	4.1
6	Welcome	Santana	3.9
7	Desperado	Eagles	3.5
8	Innervisions	Stevie Wonder	3.2
9	Quadrophenia	The Who	3.0
10	Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player	Elton John	2.9
Top Books
Rank	Book	Author	Units (M)
1	I Am That	Nisargadatta Maharaj	2.9
2	Gravity's Rainbow	Thomas Pynchon	2.7
3	The Gulag Archipelago	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	2.4
4	Revolutionary Suicide	Huey P. Newton	1.8
5	Zen in the Art of Writing	Ray Bradbury	1.7
6	All Creatures Great and Small	James Herriot	1.7
7	Sybil	Flora Rheta Schreiber	1.6
8	A Random Walk Down Wall Street	Burton G. Malkiel	1.4
9	Breakfast of Champions	Kurt Vonnegut	1.4
10	The Denial of Death	Ernest Becker	1.3
Top Movies
Rank	Movie		Units (M)
1	The Sting		13.2
2	Robin Hood		11.4
3	Badlands		9.7
4	The Exorcist		9.6
5	Paper Moon		8.7
6	Papillon		8.6
7	The Holy Mountain		8.1
8	The Day of the Jackal		7.2
9	Serpico		7.1
10	Fantastic Planet		6.7

1972 Year End Charts

Top Songs of 1972
Rank	Song	Artist	Plays
1	Stairway to Heaven	Led Zeppelin	150
2	Blue Sky	Allman Brothers Band	117
3	Vincent	Don McLean	111
4	Superstitious	Stevie Wonder	104
5	Without You	Harry Nilsson	101
6	Rock n' Roll (Pt. 2)	Gary Glitter	98
7	Moonage Daydream	David Bowie	97
8	Rock and Roll	Led Zeppelin	97
9	Coconut	Harry Nilsson	96
10	I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)	The Moody Blues	93
11	Going to California	Led Zeppelin	91
12	Rocket Man	Elton John	90
13	Immigration Man	Graham Nash, David Crosby	87
14	Song Sung Blue	Neil Diamond	87
15	The City of New Orleans	Arlo Guthrie	82
16	Spaceman	Harry Nilsson	81
17	Four Sticks	Led Zeppelin	81
18	Smoke on the Water	Deep Purple	80
19	Peace	Malo	79
20	Dirty Work	Steely Dan	76
21	You've Got a Friend	Carole King	75
22	I Can See Clearly Now	Johnny Nash	75
23	You Wear It Well	Rod Stewart	73
24	The Candy Man	Sammy Davis Jr.	72
25	Do It Again	Steely Dan	72
26	Joy	Apollo 11	71
27	Melissa	Allman Brothers Band	71
28	You're So Vain	Carly Simon	70
29	Alabama	Neil Young	70
30	The Battle of Evermore	Led Zeppelin	70
31	Jesus Is Just Alright	The Doobie Brothers	69
32	Across 110th Street	Bobby Womack	68
33	Aristocracy	Caravan	68
34	Ben	Michael Jackson	67
35	A Horse with No Name	America	65
36	Honky Cat	Elton John	64
37	Les Brers in A Minor	Allman Brothers Band	63
38	Listen to the Music	The Doobie Brothers	63
39	Oh Girl	The Chi-Lites	61
40	School's Out	Alice Cooper	60
41	You Don't Mess Around with Jim	Jim Croce	59
42	Black and White	Three Dog Night	59
43	Rockin' Down the Highway	The Doobie Brothers	58
44	The Jean Genie	David Bowie	57
45	Little Martha	Allman Brothers Band	57
46	Join Together	The Who	56
47	Hello Mary Lou	Creedence Clearwater Revival	56
48	Get on the Good Foot- Pt. 1	James Brown	56
49	In the Quiet Morning	Joan Baez	55
50	Me and My Guitar	Freddie King	54
1972
Top Albums
Rank	Album	Artist	Units (M)
1	IV	Led Zeppelin	9.3
2	Eat a Peach	Allman Brothers Band	7.1
3	Harvest	Neil Young	5.5
4	The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust…	David Bowie	5.4
5	American Pie	Don McLean	4.7
6	Exile on Main Street	The Rolling Stones	4.3
7	Malo	Malo	4.1
8	Transformer	Lou Reed	3.8
9	Caravanserai	Santana	3.7
10	A Thing Called Love	Johnny Cash	3.5
Top Books
Rank	Book	Author	Units (M)
1	The Day of the Jackal	Frederick Forsyth	2.6
2	Ways of Seeing	John Berger	2.1
3	Angle of Repose	Wallace Stegner	1.9
4	Augustus	John Williams	1.6
5	The Social Animal	Elliott Aronson	1.3
6	The Winds of War	Herman Wouk	1.3
7	Chimera	John Barth	1.3
8	Invisible Cities	Italo Calvino	1.2
9	My Name is Asher Lev	Chaim Potok	1.1
10	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	Hunter Thompson	1.0
Top Movies
Rank	Movie		Units (M)
1	The Godfather		15.9
2	Sleuth		14.0
3	Aguirre, the Wrath of God		13.7
4	The Discrete Charm of the Bourgeoisie		11.3
5	Solaris		10.6
6	Deliverance		10.5
7	What's Up, Doc?		9.7
8	1776		8.3
9	The Poseidon Adventure		8.2
10	Cabaret		8.2

1971 Year End Charts

Top Songs of 1971
Rank	Song	Artist	Plays
1	Take Me Home Country Roads	John Denver	117
2	Maggie May	Rod Stewart	115
3	Imagine	John Lennon	114
4	Black Dog	Led Zeppelin	112
5	American Pie	Don McLean	111
6	River	Joni Mitchell	106
7	Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey	Wings	105
8	Baba O'Riley	The Who	102
9	The Only Living Boy in New York	Simon & Garfunkel	97
10	Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)	Marvin Gaye	94
11	The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face	Roberta Flack	93
12	Uncle John's Band	Grateful Dead	93
13	One Less Bell to Answer	The 5th Dimension	90
14	Another Day	Wings	89
15	Goodbye	Elton John	89
16	Bird Song	Grateful Dead	88
17	Mercedes Benz	Janis Joplin	87
18	Happy Xmas (War is Over)	John Lennon, The Plastic Ono Band	87
19	Pure Imagination	Gene Wilder (Willy Wonka…)	86
20	Church of Acid	John Cale & Terry Riley	85
21	Levon	Elton John	83
22	The Eagle and the Hawk	John Lennon	83
23	Me and Bobby McGee	Janis Joplin	78
24	What's Going On	Marvin Gaye	78
25	Planet Caravan	Black Sabbath	76
26	(I Never Promised You) A Rose Garden	Lynn Anderson	75
27	Since I've Been Loving You	Led Zeppelin	75
28	(I've Got A) Gold Ticket	Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum (Willy Wonka…)	74
29	I Feel the Earth Move	Carole King	72
30	Easy Wind	Grateful Dead	71
31	Nobody	The Doobie Brothers	69
32	Touissant L'Overture	Santana	69
33	Signs	Five Man Electrical Band	68
34	Where You Lead	Carole King	68
35	The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down	Joan Baez	67
36	Every Picture Tells a Story	Rod Stewart	66
37	Soley Soley	Middle of the Road	66
38	Lady in Black	Uriah Heep	66
39	Behind Blue Eyes	The Who	65
40	Man in Black	Johnny Cash	65
41	Samba Pa Ti	Santana	64
42	Tiny Dancer	Elton John	63
43	It's Too Late	Carole King	63
44	Cheer Up, Charlie	Diana Sowle (Willy Wonka…)	63
45	Won't Get Fooled Again	The Who	62
46	Oye Como Va	Santana	62
47	A Case of You	Joni Mitchell	61
48	L.A. Woman	The Doors	61
49	Wild Horses	The Rolling Stones	59
50	Echoes	Pink Floyd	59
1971
Top Albums
Rank	Album	Artist	Units (M)
1	Pearl	Janis Joplin	7.9
2	What's Going On	Marvin Gaye	7.8
3	Tapestry	Carole King	7.2
4	Who's Next	The Who	6.6
5	Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory	Various Artists	5.8
6	Blue	Joni Mitchell	5.3
7	Abraxas	Santana	5.3
8	III	Led Zeppelin	4.7
9	Workingman's Dead	Grateful Dead	4.3
10	Santana (III)	Santana	4.1
Top Books
Rank	Book	Author	Units (M)
1	Open Veins of Latin America	Eduardo Galeano	2.7
2	Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee	Dee Brown	2.7
3	Kane & Abel	Jeffrey Archer	2.4
4	In the Shadow of Man	Jane Goodall	1.8
5	Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh	Robert C. O'brien	1.7
6	The Bluest Eye	Toni Morrison	1.3
7	The Lathe of Heaven	Ursula Le Guin	1.3
8	The Passions of the Mind	Irving Stone	1.2
9	How Europe Underdeveloped Africa	Walter Rodney	1.2
10	Eleanor and Franklin	Joseph P. Lash	1.0
Top Movies
Rank	Movie		Units (M)
1	Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory		14.7
2	Fiddler on the Roof		13.2
3	Klute		10.9
4	Dirty Harry		10.9
5	Johnny Got His Gun		10.2
6	The French Connection		9.5
7	Harold and Maude		9.0
8	The Devils		7.8
9	The Last Picture Show		7.8
10	Macbeth		7.6

1970 Year End Charts

Top Songs of 1970
Rank	Song	Artist	Plays
1	Across the Universe	The Beatles	105
2	Closer to Home (I'm Your Captain)	Grand Funk Railroad	102
3	Layla	Derek & the Dominoes	101
4	Cygnet Committee	David Bowie	99
5	Whole Lotta Love	Led Zeppelin	98
6	War	Edwin Starr	96
7	(They Long to Be) Close to You	The Carpenters	91
8	Child in Time	Deep Purple	91
9	My Sweet Lord	George Harrison	89
10	Bride Over Troubled Water	Simon & Garfunkel	86
11	Paranoid	Black Sabbath	84
12	I'll Never Fall in Love Again	Dionne Warwick	83
13	Ramble On	Led Zeppelin	83
14	Cecilia	Simon & Garfunkel	81
15	1970	The Stooges	80
16	Ohio	Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	80
17	Hi-De-Ho	Blood Sweat & Tears	79
18	One Toke Over the Line	Brewer & Shipley	79
19	Thank You	Led Zeppelin	79
20	American Woman	The Guess Who	78
21	Box of Rain	Grateful Dead	78
22	I Think I Love You	The Partridge Family	77
23	Anyday	Derek & the Dominoes	77
24	Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)	Stevie Wonder	76
25	Immigrant Song	Led Zeppelin	75
26	Big Yellow Taxi	Joni Mitchell	75
27	Iron Man	Black Sabbath	74
28	Ain't No Mountain High Enough	Diana Ross	72
29	Friend of the Devil	Grateful Dead	72
30	Pharaoh's Dance	Miles Davis	71
31	I Want You Back	The Jackson 5	70
32	Our House	Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	70
33	Tangerine	Led Zeppelin	70
34	Singing Winds, Crying Beasts	Santana	69
35	Lookin' Out My Back Door	Creedence Clearwater Revival	68
36	Affair in Aruba	Les Baxter	67
37	The Letter	Joe Cocker	67
38	Out in the Country	Three Dog Night	66
39	Don't Let it Bring You Down	Neil Young	64
40	Heartbreaker	Led Zeppelin	64
41	Morning on the Meadow	Les Baxter	63
42	Evrybody Wants to be a Cat	Scatman Crothers (Aristocats)	61
43	Sugar Magnolia	Grateful Dead	61
44	Up Around the Bend	Creedence Clearwater Revival	60
45	Can You See Me	Glass Harp	59
46	Moby Dick	Led Zeppelin	59
47	At My Window	The Beach Boys	59
48	Montego Bay	Bobby Bloom	58
49	Everything is Beautiful	Ray Stevens	57
50	Ramble Tamble	Creedence Clearwater Revival	57
1970
Top Albums
Rank	Album	Artist	Units (M)
1	Bridge Over Troubled Water	Simon & Garfunkel	6.8
2	American Beauty	Grateful Dead	5.5
3	Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs	Derek and the Dominoes	5.3
4	Led Zeppelin II	Led Zeppelin	5.0
5	After the Gold Rush	Neil Young	4.7
6	Bitches Brew	Miles Davis	4.2
7	Paranoid	Black Sabbath	4.1
8	Cosmo's Factory	Creedence Clearwater Revival	3.6
9	Déjà vu	Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	3.5
10	Let it Be	The Beatles	3.5
Top Books
Rank	Book	Author	Units (M)
1	Play It As It Lays	Joan Didion	2.9
2	Future Shock	Alvin Toffler	2.8
3	Rich Man, Poor Man	Irwin Shaw	2.3
4	Ringworld	Larry Niven	2.2
5	Ball Four	Jim Bouton	2.2
6	The Archaeology of Knowledge	Michel Foucault	2.1
7	The Greatest Salesman in the World	Og Mandino	2.1
8	QB VII	Leon Uris	1.8
9	Great Lion of God	Taylor Caldwell	1.7
10	Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind	Shunryu Suzuki	1.6
Top Movies
Rank	Movie		Units (M)
1	Zabriskie Point		10.5
2	Love Story		10.3
3	Scrooge		9.6
4	Ryan's Daughter		8.5
5	Waterloo		8.5
6	The Aristocats		8.3
7	Valerie and Her Week of Wonders		7.9
8	Patton		7.8
9	The Wild Child		7.2
10	Colossus: The Forbin Project		6.8

1970 Year End Charts

Top Songs of 1969
Rank	Song	Artist	Plays
1	In the Year 2525	Zager & Evans	112
2	Come Together	The Beatles	110
3	China Cat Sunflower	Grateful Dead	109
4	Fortunate Son	Creedence Clearwater Revival	106
5	Build Me Up Buttercup	The Foundations	103
6	Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In	The 5th Dimension	99
7	Leaving on a Jet Plane	John Denver	97
8	Here Comes the Sun	The Beatles	97
9	Space Oddity	David Bowie	98
10	Put On Your Sunday Clothes	Jerry Herman, Michael Crawford	94
11	Seattle	Perry Como	92
12	Lay, Lady Lay	Bob Dylan	91
13	Whipping Post	Allman Brothers Band	90
14	Sweet Caroline	Neil Diamon	87
15	Birthday	The Beatles	86
16	Suite: Judy Blue Eyes	Crosby, Stills & Nash	86
17	Babe I'm Gonna Leave You	Led Zeppelin	85
18	Honey	Bobby Goldsboro	84
19	Give Peace a Chance	John Lennon, Yoko Ono	84
20	He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother	The Hollies	83
21	Pinball Wizard	The Who	81
22	Nashville Skyline Rag	Bob Dylan	78
23	Mountains of the Moon	Grateful Dead	77
24	How Many More Times	Led Zeppelin	77
25	Blackbird	The Beatles	76
26	Cinnamon Girl	Neil Young	76
27	Volunteers	Jefferson Airplane	75
28	Born on the Bayou	Creedence Clearwater Revival	73
29	Oh Happy Day	The Edwin Hawkins Sisters	72
30	21st Century Schizoid Man	King Crimson	72
31	Octopus's Garden	The Beatles	72
32	Everyday People	Sly & the Family Stone	69
33	Your Time is Gonna Come	Led Zeppelin	68
34	You Can't Always Get What You Want	The Rolling Stones	68
35	All Aboard	Muddy Waters	67
36	While My Guitar Gently Weeps	The Beatles	67
37	These Eyes	The Guess Who	66
38	Dazed and Confused	Led Zeppelin	66
39	Bad Moon Rising	Creedence Clearwater Revival	65
40	Who Knows Where the Time Goes	Fairport Convention	65
41	Wearin' That Loved on Look	Elvis Presley	64
42	Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da	The Beatles	64
43	Jamala	Chick Corea	63
44	Proud Mary	Creedence Clearwater Revival	62
45	Monkey Man	The Rolling Stones	62
46	Because	The Beatles	61
47	Wasn't Born to Follow	The Byrds	61
48	Dreams	Allman Brothers Band	61
49	Sabre Dance	Love Sculpture	60
50	Good Night	The Beatles	60
1969
Top Albums
Rank	Album	Artist	Units (M)
1	The White Album	The Beatles	10.3
2	Abbey Road	The Beatles	9.7
3	Aoxomoxoa	Grateful Dead	5.7
4	Willy and the Poor Boys	Creedence Clearwater Revival	5.0
5	Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin	4.5
6	Soul '69	Aretha Franklin	4.4
7	The Allman Brothers Band	Allman Brothers Band	3.7
8	In the Court of the Crimson King	King Crimson	3.6
9	Fathers & Sons	Muddy Waters	3.5
10	Kick Out The Jams	The Who	3.4
Top Books
Rank	Book	Author	Units (M)
1	Desert Solitaire	Edward Abbey	3.7
2	One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel Garcia-Marquez	3.2
3	The Godfather	Mario Puzo	3.1
4	Ada, or Ardor	Vladimir Nabokov	2.4
5	Slaughterhouse-five	Kurt Vonnegut	2.4
6	The Left Hand of Darkness	Ursula Le Guin	2.2
7	On Death and Dying	Elisabeth Kubler-Ross	1.9
8	The Promise	Chaim Potok	1.8
9	Slouching Towards Bethlehem	Joan Didion	1.6
10	I Sing the Body Electric! & Other Stories	Ray Bradbury	1.3
Top Movies
Rank	Movie		Units (M)
1	Army of Shadows		10.9
2	Women in Love		10.7
3	Easy Rider		10.3
4	Z		9.6
5	Satyricon		9.1
6	Midnight Cowboy		8.5
7	They Shoot Horses, Don't They?		7.9
8	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie		7.8
9	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid		7.4
10	Kes		6.6