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