NEW ZEALAND’S WEEKLY (NZ listener) BEST SELLING SINGLES FOR 1972
No. Song-Artist-Peak Month
1 BEAUTIFUL SUNDAY-DANIEL BOONE-JULY 828
2 AMERICAN PIE-DON MCLEAN-April 822 3 IMAGINE-JOHN LENNON-January 820 4 NICE TO BE WITH YOU-GALLERY-September 792 5 PUPPY LOVE-DONNY OSMOND-September 766 6 SYLVIA'S MOTHER-DR. HOOK AND THE MEDICINE SHOW-August 746 7 THE RANGERS WALTZ-THE MOMS AND DADS-April 740 8 BLACK AND WHITE-Three Dog Night-November 728 9 WITHOUT YOU-Nilsson-May 720 10 SONG SUNG BLUE-Neil Diamond-July 718 11 Take The Money And Run-Bunny Walters-November 680 12 How Do You Do?-Mouth And Mcneal-July 634 13 Gypsys,tramps And Thieves-Cher-January 616 14 City Of New Orleans-Arlo Guthrie-December 616 15 Son Of My Father-Chicory Tip-May 594
16 Amazing Grace-The Pipes & Drums Military Band Of The Royal Scots Dragon Guards-June 578
17 Walking In The Sand-Al Martino-June 562
18 Softly Whispering I Love You-Congregation/mike Curb Congregation-April 552
19 Love Is A Beautiful Song-Dave Mills-January 552 20 The Guitar Man-Bread-October 552 21 Sister Jane-New World-July 538 22 Mother And Child Reunion-Paul Simon-May 528 23 Horse Wth No Name-America-March 526 24 Morning Has Broken-Cat Stevens-May 522 25 Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast-Daniel Boone-February 518 26 Brand New Key-Melanie-March 514 27 I Can See Clearly Now-Johnny Nash-December 514 28 Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress-The Hollies-September 510 29 Layla-Derek & The Dominos-December 504
30 I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing-New Seekers/hillside Singers-March 498
31 Little Willy-Sweet-September 498 32 Desiderata-Les Crane-March 490 33 Is This The Way To Amarillo-Tony Christie-January 480 34 Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me-Mac Davis-December 476 35 Carolina-Creation-July 472 36 Tweedle Dee Tweedle Dum-Middle Of The Road-January 448 37 Brandy-Bunny Walters-February 446
38 The Day Is Ended/heykens’s Serenade-Royal Scots Dragoon Guards-December 442
39 Day After Day-Badfinger-April 432
40 Holy Morning-The Rumour And Ladies Of St. Mary’s Cathedral Choir-September 426
41 Four And Twenty Hours-Nana Mouskouri-October 420 42 Alone Again (Naturally)-Gilbert O'sullivan-June 400 43 Theme From 'shaft'-Isaac Hayes-March 398 44 Light Flight-Pantangle-August 396 45 Run To Me-The Bee Gees-October 368 46 Mammy Blue-Pop Tops-January 362 47 Soley Soley-Middle Of The Road-April 354 48 Ernie-Benny Hill-January 352 49 Popcorn-Hot Butter/mister K-November 344 50 Vincent-Don Mclean-June 344 51 Betcha By Golly Wow-The Stylistics-August 342 52 Beg,steal Or Borrow-The New Seekers-June 342 53 Peace Train-Cat Stevens-February 332 54 Lady Love Bug-Clodagh Rodgers-February 298 55 Conquistador-Procul Harum-October 290 56 Leap Up And Down-St. Ceclia-January 288 57 Ooh-wakka-do-wakka-day-Gilbert O'sullivan-September 282 58 Don't Go Down To Reno-Tony Christie-September 278 59 Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)-Looking Glass-October 274 60 Me And Julio Down By The School Yard-Paul Simon-July 270 61 Hello-A-Mouth And Macneal-September 258 62 School's Out-Alice Cooper-October 238 63 Metal Guru-T-rex-August 216 64 You Wear It Well-Rod Stewart-November 216 65 Baby Blue-Badfinger-June 206 66 Hurtin' Each Other-The Carpenters-May 202 67 It's Four In The Morning-Faron Young-November 198 68 Black Dog-Led Zeppelin-March 196 69 Can't Let You Go-Suzanne-July 194 70 Cherish-David Cassidy-February 190 71 Annabelle-Daniel Boone-November 168 72 Superstar-The Carpenters-January 164 73 Rocket Man-Elton John-August 158 74 Vaya Con Dios-The Cats-December 152 75 I Will Return-Springwater-March 152 76 Heart Of Gold-Neil Young-May 148 77 Breaking Up Is Hard To Do-The Partridge Family-October 146 78 Wig Wam Bam-Sweet-December 144 79 Kara Kara-New World-February 140 80 From The Beginning-Emerson Lake And Palmer-December 134 81 Rock And Roll Parts 1 & 2-Gary Glitter-October 134 82 Stones-Neil Diamond-February 128 83 Never Been To Spain-Three Dog Night-April 112 84 Mary Had A Little Lamb-Wings-August 108 85 Butterfly-Danyel Gerard-January 86 86 Everything I Own-Bread-May 86 87 My World-The Bee Gees-April 78 88 Love Is Bigger Than The Whole Wide World-Headband-October 72 89 Poppa Joe-Sweet-May 68 90 No Matter How I Try-Gilbert O'sullivan-February 42 91 Family Affair-Sly And The Family Stone-February 40 92 The Witch Queen Of New Orleans-Redbone-February 38
93 Something Tells Me (Something’s Gonna Happen Tonight)-Cilla Black-January 36
94 Diary-Bread-July 36 95 All The Young Dudes-Mott The Hoople-November 36 96 Jungle Fever-The Chakachas-June 36 97 Dance Around The World-Blerta-June 36 98 One More Mountain To Climb-Craig Scott-February 34 99 Don't Let Me Lose You-Ray Woolf-September 34 100 The Ballad Of Jacques Le Mere-Headband-March 34 101 I'm A Song (Sing Me-Neil Sedaka-March 34