RADIO AND RECORDS (USA) MAGAZINE'S (BARRY KOWAL) TOP SINGLES OF 1976
No. Song-Artist-Peak Month 1 TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT (GONNA BE ALRIGHT)-ROD STEWART-NOVEMBER 748 2 I WRITE THE SONGS-BARRY MANILOW-January 732 3 DON'T GO BREAKING MY HEART-ELTON JOHN AND KIKI DEE-July 716 4 AFTERNOON DELIGHT-STARLAND VOCAL BAND-June 710 5 SILLY LOVE SONGS-WINGS-May 670 6 YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE DANCING-LEO SAYER-December 670 7 IF YOU LEAVE ME NOW-CHICAGO-September 620 8 LET YOUR LOVE FLOW-Bellamy Brothers-April 584 9 DECEMBER,1963 (OH,WHA A NIGHT)-Four Seasons-March 560 10 BOOGIE FEVER-Sylvers-April 548 11 Theme From S.W.A.T.-Rhythm Heritage-February 546 12 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover-Paul Simon-January 532 13 Disco Lady-Johnnie Taylor-April 532 14 Love Rollercoaster-Ohio Players-January 522 15 You Sexy Thing-Hot Chocolate-January 512 16 Welcome Back-John Sebastian-April 508 17 Play That Funky Music-Wild Cherry-September 504 18 The Rubberband Man-Spinners-November 504 19 Dream Weaver-Gary Wright-March 502 20 Kiss & Say Goodbye-Manhattans-July 502 21 Lonely Night-Captain & Tennille-March 502 22 Rock'n Me-Steve Miller Band-October 494 23 More Than A Feeling-Boston-November 480 24 Devil Woman-Cliff Richard-September 476 24 Muskrat Love-Captain and Tennille-November 470 26 (Shake,Shake,Shake) Shake Your Booty-K.C. & The Sunshine Band-September 464 27 You Don't Have To Be A Star-Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr.-December 460 28 Shannon-Henry Gross-May 458 29 I'd Really Love To See You Tonight-England Dan & John Ford Coley-August 456 30 Right Back Where We Started From-Maxine Nightingale-April 452 31 Fooled Around And Fell In Love-Elvin Bishop-May 450 32 All By Myself-Eric Carmen-February 444 33 Still The One-Orleans-September 444 34 Love Is Alive-Gary Wright-July 420 35 Let 'Em In-Wings-July 412 36 Get Closer-Seals and Crofts-July 408 37 You Should Be Dancing-Bee Gees-August 406 38 Shop Around-Captain & Tennille-June 404 38 Beth-Kiss-November 404 40 Theme From "Mahogany-Diana Ross-January 400 41 Get Up & Boogie-Silver Convention-June 398 42 A Fifth Of Beethoven-Walter Murphy Band-September 392 43 Hot Line-Sylvers-December 376 44 Take It To The Limit-Eagles-February 372 45 Misty Blue-Dorothy Moore-June 366 46 Magic Man-Heart-October 366 47 Bohemian Rhapsody-Queen-April 362 48 Love Hangover-Diana Ross-May 360 49 Convoy-C.W. McCall-January 356 50 Dream On-Aerosmith-March 352 51 Fox On The Run-The Sweet-January 352 52 Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word-Elton John-December 338 53 Evil Woman-Electric Light Orchestra-January 336 54 Love Hurts-Nazareth-February 334 55 Sara Smile-Daryl Hall & John Oates-May 332 56 Stand Tall-Burton Cummings-December 330 57 Lowdown-Boz Scaggs-October 316 58 Sweet Thing-Rufus-March 310 59 Disco Duck-Rick Dees and His Cast Of Idiots-October 310 60 Show Me The Way-Peter Frampton-April 308 61 You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine-Lou Rawls-August 306 62 The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald-Gordon Lightfoot-October 304 63 I Never Cry-Alice Cooper-December 302 64 More,More,More-Andrea True Connection-July 290 65 Love So Right-Bee Gees-November 290 66 Happy Days-Pratt & McClain-May 278 67 Only Sixteen-Dr. Hook-April 274 68 Moonlight Feels Right-Starbuck-June 266 68 Nadia's Theme (The Young And The Restless)-Barry DeVorzon/Perry Botkin-November 262 70 I Only Want To Be With You-Bay City Rollers-October 262 71 She's Gone-Daryl Hall & John Oates-October 258 72 You're My Best Friend-Queen-July 256 73 Fanny (Be Tender With My Love)-Bee Gees-February 256 74 Rhiannon-Fleetwood Mac-May 254 75 Do You Feel Like We Do-Peter Frampton-October 244 76 After The Lovin'-Engelbert Humperdinck-December 244 77 Love To Love You Baby-Donna Summer-January 242 78 Take The Money & Run-Steve Miller Band-July 240 79 Never Gonna Fall In Love Again-Eric Carmen-June 232 80 Tryin' To Get The Feeling Again-Barry Manilow-May 220 81 Money Honey-Bay City Rollers-March 214 82 Sing A Song-Earth Wind & Fire-January 212 83 Breaking Up Is Hard To Do (Slow Version)-Neil Sedaka-January 210 84 A Little Bit More-Dr. Hook-September 210 85 Livin' Thing-Electric Light Orchestra-December 210 86 Say You Love Me-Fleetwood Mac-September 208 87 Nights Are Forever Without You-England Dan & John Ford Coley-December 200 88 Rock & Roll Music-Beach Boys-July 196 89 The Boys Are Back In Town-Thin Lizzy-July 188 90 I Love Music-The O'Jays-January 186 91 Let Her In-John Travolta-July 180 92 Got To Get You Into My Life-Beatles-July 180 93 Baby I Love Your Way-Peter Frampton-August 160 94 You Are The Woman-Firefall-November 156 95 Love Machine-Miracles-February 154 96 That'll Be The Day-Linda Ronstadt-October 148 97 Fernando-Abba-October 146 98 I'll Be Good To You-Brothers Johnson-July 142 99 With Your Love-Jefferson Starship-September 116 100 Squeeze Box-Who-February 112 101 This Masquerade-George Benson-August 74 102 I'm Easy-Keith Carradine-July 68 103 There's A Kind Of Hush (All Over The World)-Carpenters-March 68 104 Fly Away-John Denver-January 34 105 Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel-Tavares-September 34