RECORD WORLD (USA) MAGAZINE'S (BARRY KOWAL) TOP SINGLES OF 1976
No. Song-Artist-Peak Month 1 PLAY THAT FUNKY MUSIC-WILD CHERRY-SEPTEMBER 888 2 DON'T GO BREAKING MY HEART-ELTON JOHN & KIKI DEE-August 736 3 BOOGIE FEVER-THE SYLVERS-May 682 4 A FIFTH OF BEETHOVEN-WALTER MURPHY & THE BIG APPLE BAND-September 644 5 AFTERNOON DELIGHT-THE STARLAND VOCAL BAND-July 644 6 SILLY LOVE SONGS-WINGS-May 642 7 I WRITE THE SONGS-BARRY MANILOW-January 632 8 DISCO DUCK-Rick Dees & His Cast Of Idiots-October 630 9 IF YOU LEAVE ME NOW-Chicago-October 628 10 KISS AND SAY GOODBYE-The Manhattans-July 626 11 Convoy-C.W. McCall-January 622 12 Tonight's The Night (Gonna Be Alright)-Rod Stewart-November 620 13 The Rubberband Man-The Spinners-December 610 14 December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night)-The Four Seasons-March 588 15 Love Hangover-Diana Ross-June 576 16 Get Up And Boogie (That's Right)-The Silver Convention-June 568 17 Disco Lady-Johnnie Taylor-April 558 18 Love Rollercoaster-The Ohio Players-January 558 19 Muskrat Love-Captain & Tennille-November 550 20 Love Machine-The Miracles-March 542 21 Dream Weaver-Gary Wright-March 540 22 Rock'n Me-Steve Miller-November 530 23 Welcome Back-John Sebastian-May 530 24 More, More, More-Andrea True Connection-July 520 25 Lonely Night (Angel Face)-Captain & Tennille-April 510 26 All By Myself-Eric Carmen-March 486 27 Right Back Where We Started From-Maxine Nightingale-May 478 28 Lowdown-Boz Scaggs-October 470 29 Shake Your Booty-KC & The Sunshine Band-September 470 30 Theme From S.W.A.T.-Rhythm Heritage-February 466 31 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover-Paul Simon-February 458 32 Love To Love You Baby-Donna Summer-February 458 33 You Sexy Thing-Hot Chocolate-January 458 34 Shannon-Henry Gross-June 456 35 You Should Be Dancing-Bee Gees-September 418 36 I'd Really Love To See You Tonight-England Dan & John Ford Coley-September 416 37 Shop Around-Captain & Tennille-July 414 38 Devil Woman-Cliff Richard-October 400 39 You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine-Lou Rawls-August 400 40 Let Your Love Flow-Bellamy Brothers-May 398 41 Let 'em In-Wings-August 380 42 Dream On-Aerosmith-April 374 43 Misty Blue-Dorothy Moore-June 370 44 Fooled Around And Fell In Love-Elvin Bishop-May 370 45 Theme From 'mahogany'-Diana Ross-January 370 46 Bohemian Rhapsody-Queen-April 366 47 The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald-Gordon Lightfoot-November 364 48 Magic Man-Heart-October 362 49 Love Is Alive-Gary Wright-July 360 50 Get Closer-Seals & Crofts-August 358 51 Fox On The Run-The Sweet-January 332 52 Moonlight Feels Right-Starbuck-July 332 53 This Masquerade-George Benson-August 326 54 Sing A Song-Earth, Wind & Fire-January 318 55 More Than A Feeling-Boston-December 316 56 I Love Music-The O'Jays-January 306 57 Sweet Thing-Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan-April 306 58 Sweet Love-Commodores-April 302 59 She's Gone-Daryl Hall & John Oates-October 270 60 Take It To The Limit-Eagles-February 270 61 Still The One-Orleans-October 264 62 Happy Days-Pratt & McClain-June 262 63 Nadia's Theme-Barry DeVorzon & Perry Botkin Jr.-December 252 64 Beth-Kiss-December 252 65 Love Hurts-Nazareth-March 250 66 Rock And Roll Music-Beach Boys-August 244 67 Only Sixteen-Dr. Hook-April 238 68 Sara Smile-Daryl Hall & John Oates-June 230 69 Show Me The Way-Peter Frampton-May 228 70 Walk Away From Love-David Ruffin-January 204 71 Evil Woman-Electric Light Orchestra-January 202 72 Stand Tall-Burton Cummings-December 202 73 Breaking Up Is Hard To Do-Neil Sedaka-February 194 74 Money Honey-Bay City Rollers-March 190 75 Rhiannon (Will You Ever Win)-Fleetwood Mac-June 190 76 Tryin' To Get The Feeling Again-Barry Manilow-May 188 77 I Never Cry-Alice Cooper-December 168 78 Tear The Roof Off The Sucker (Give Up The Funk)-Parliament-July 166 79 I'll Be Good To You-Brothers Johnson-July 164 80 Got To Get You Into My Life-Beatles-July 160 81 Never Gonna Fall In Love Again-Eric Carmen-June 158 82 Nights Are Forever Without You-England Dan & John Ford Coley-December 156 83 Love So Right-Bee Gees-December 156 84 Fanny (Be Tender With My Love)-Bee Gees-March 154 85 You Are The Woman-Firefall-December 154 86 With Your Love-Jefferson Starship-September 146 87 Just To Be Close To You-Commodores-November 120 88 I Only Want To Be With You-Bay City Rollers-October 120 89 Squeeze Box-The Who-February 112 90 A Little Bit More-Dr. Hook-October 110 91 Wake Up Everybody-Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes-February 110 92 Let Her In-John Travolta-July 110 93 I'm Easy-Keith Carradine-August 102 94 The Boys Are Back In Town-Thin Lizzy-July 76 95 That'll Be The Day-Linda Ronstadt-October 68 96 Golden Years-David Bowie-March 34 97 Fernando-Abba-November 34 98 Say You Love Me-Fleetwood Mac-September 34