RECORD WORLD (USA) MAGAZINE’S (MAGAZINE’S CHART) TOP SINGLES OF 1972*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=uAsV5-Hv-7U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8_fLu2yrP4
Pos.-Title-Artist-Label-Peak Month
#1 AMERICAN PIE-DON McLEAN-UNITED ARTIST-JANUARY
#1 FIRST TIME EVER I SAW YOUR FACE-ROBERTA FLACK-ATLANTIC-APRIL
2 WITHOUT YOU-NILSSON-RCA-March 3 ALONE AGAIN(NATURALLY)-GILBERT O'SULLIVAN-MAM-August 4 LET'S STAY TOGETHER-AL GREEN-Hi-February
5 (IF LOVING YOU IS…) I DON’T WANT TO BE RIGHT-LUTHER INGRAM-Koko-July
6 DADDY DON'T WALK SO FAST-WAYNE NEWTON-Chelsea-July 7 OH,GIRL-CHI-LITES-Brunswick-May 8 HEART OF GOLD-Neil Young-Reprise-March 9 LONG COOL WOMAN(IN A BLACK DRESS)-Hollies-Epic-August 10 BRANDY-Looking Glass-Epic-August 11 A Horse With No Name-America-Warner Brothers-April 12 I Gotcha-Joe Tex-Dial-May 13 I'm Still In Love With You-Al Green-Hi-August 14 I'll Take You There-Staple Singers-Stax-May
15 Too Late To Turn Back Now-Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose-United Artists-July
16 Rockin' Robin-Michael Jackson-Motown-April 17 Precious & Few-Climax-Carousel-February 18 Back Stabbers-O'Jays-Philadelphia International-October 19 The Lion Sleeps Tonight-Robert John-Atlantic-March 20 Everybody Plays The Fool-Main Ingredient-RCA-October * As published in the December 30th,1972 issue of Record World Magazine # (tie)