Billboard Hot 100 — May 22, 1971
The Billboard Hot 100 for the week of May 22, 1971. "Joy To The World" by Three Dog Night held #1 for a 6th straight week, the last week of its run. 10 songs entered the chart this week; the highest new entry was "High Time We Went/Black-Eyed Blues" by Joe Cocker at #79, which would go on to peak at #22. The biggest climber was "Double Lovin'" by The Osmonds, up 37 places from #90 to #53.
Chart highlights
- At #1: "Joy To The World" by Three Dog Night — 6 weeks at the top so far, 11 weeks on the chart since debuting March 13, 1971.
- New in the top 10: "Want Ads" by The Honey Cone (up from #12 to #6); "It Don't Come Easy" by Ringo Starr (up from #13 to #8).
- Biggest fall: "We Were Always Sweethearts" by Boz Scaggs, down 20 places from #61 to #81.
- Longest run on this week's chart: "Superstar" by Murray Head With The Trinidad Singers, 26 weeks and counting (peak #15).
- Gone from the chart: "Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)" by The Temptations after 15 weeks (peak #1); "One Toke Over The Line" by Brewer And Shipley after 14 weeks (peak #10).
TW = this week, LW = last week (NEW = first week on the chart), Peak = highest position reached up to this week, Wks = weeks on the chart up to this week.
| TW | LW | Peak | Wks | Song / Artist |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 11 | Joy To The World Three Dog Night |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | Never Can Say Goodbye Jackson 5 |
| 3 | 6 | 3 | 4 | Brown Sugar The Rolling Stones |
| 4 | 3 | 2 | 11 | Put Your Hand In The Hand Ocean |
| 5 | 5 | 5 | 8 | Me And You And A Dog Named Boo Lobo |
| 6 | 12 | 6 | 7 | Want Ads The Honey Cone |
| 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | Bridge Over Troubled Water/Brand New Me Aretha Franklin |
| 8 | 13 | 8 | 4 | It Don't Come Easy Ringo Starr |
| 9 | 4 | 4 | 9 | If Bread |
| 10 | 10 | 9 | 12 | Chick-A-Boom (Don't Ya Jes' Love It) Daddy Dewdrop |
| 11 | 11 | 11 | 7 | Love Her Madly The Doors |
| 12 | 8 | 7 | 12 | Stay Awhile The Bells |
| 13 | 14 | 13 | 9 | Sweet And Innocent Donny Osmond of The Osmonds |
| 14 | 9 | 4 | 9 | I Am...I Said/Done Too Soon Neil Diamond |
| 15 | 24 | 15 | 26 | Superstar Murray Head With The Trinidad Singers |
| 16 | 17 | 16 | 10 | Here Comes The Sun Richie Havens |
| 17 | 25 | 17 | 14 | I Don't Know How To Love Him Helen Reddy |
| 18 | 16 | 2 | 14 | What's Going On Marvin Gaye |
| 19 | 19 | 17 | 15 | Timothy The Buoys |
| 20 | 46 | 20 | 2 | Rainy Days And Mondays Carpenters |
| 21 | 22 | 21 | 18 | I Love You For All Seasons The Fuzz |
| 22 | 18 | 18 | 10 | I Don't Blame You At All Smokey Robinson & The Miracles |
| 23 | 34 | 23 | 12 | Woodstock Matthews' Southern Comfort |
| 24 | 30 | 24 | 7 | Treat Her Like A Lady Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose |
| 25 | 26 | 25 | 8 | Toast And Marmalade For Tea Tin Tin |
| 26 | 27 | 26 | 8 | Right On The Tip Of My Tongue Brenda & The Tabulations |
| 27 | 33 | 27 | 3 | I'll Meet You Halfway The Partridge Family Starring Shirley Jones Featuring David Cassidy |
| 28 | 29 | 28 | 7 | (For God's Sake) Give More Power To The People The Chi-lites |
| 29 | 32 | 29 | 5 | Don't Knock My Love - Pt. 1 Wilson Pickett |
| 30 | 31 | 30 | 4 | Reach Out I'll Be There Diana Ross |
| 31 | 15 | 11 | 8 | Power To The People John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band |
| 32 | 21 | 13 | 11 | We Can Work It Out Stevie Wonder |
| 33 | 35 | 33 | 11 | Cool Aid Paul Humphrey & His Cool Aid Chemists |
| 34 | 39 | 34 | 4 | The Drum Bobby Sherman |
| 35 | 36 | 35 | 10 | Me And My Arrow Nilsson |
| 36 | 37 | 36 | 10 | Booty Butt The Ray Charles Orchestra |
| 37 | 42 | 37 | 5 | I Don't Know How To Love Him Yvonne Elliman |
| 38 | 47 | 38 | 3 | It's Too Late/I Feel The Earth Move Carole King |
| 39 | 20 | 5 | 12 | Another Day/Oh Woman Oh Why Paul McCartney |
| 40 | 57 | 40 | 3 | Nathan Jones The Supremes |
| 41 | 58 | 41 | 3 | Lowdown Chicago |
| 42 | 50 | 42 | 3 | When You're Hot, You're Hot Jerry Reed |
| 43 | 52 | 43 | 7 | Indian Reservation (The Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian) The Raiders |
| 44 | 51 | 44 | 6 | That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be Carly Simon |
| 45 | 49 | 45 | 10 | Melting Pot Booker T. & The MG's |
| 46 | 48 | 46 | 6 | Albert Flasher/Broken The Guess Who |
| 47 | 38 | 29 | 11 | Baby Let Me Kiss You King Floyd |
| 48 | 43 | 36 | 11 | Don't Change On Me Ray Charles |
| 49 | 68 | 49 | 2 | Cry Baby Janis Joplin |
| 50 | 69 | 50 | 2 | She's Not Just Another Woman The 8th Day |
| 51 | 53 | 51 | 8 | 13 Questions Seatrain |
| 52 | 74 | 52 | 3 | Funky Nassau-Part I The Beginning Of The End |
| 53 | 90 | 53 | 2 | Double Lovin' The Osmonds |
| 54 | 55 | 42 | 10 | I Won't Mention It Again Ray Price |
| 55 | 54 | 43 | 14 | Do Me Right Detroit Emeralds |
| 56 | 56 | 51 | 9 | Layla Derek & The Dominos |
| 57 | 62 | 57 | 6 | L.A. International Airport Susan Raye |
| 58 | 63 | 58 | 4 | Feelin' Alright Grand Funk Railroad |
| 59 | 65 | 59 | 3 | I Cried James Brown |
| 60 | 60 | 48 | 11 | Lucky Man Emerson, Lake & Palmer |
| 61 | 70 | 61 | 5 | House At Pooh Corner Nitty Gritty Dirt Band |
| 62 | 73 | 62 | 3 | The Court Room Clarence Carter |
| 63 | 71 | 63 | 5 | Ajax Liquor Store Hudson and Landry |
| 64 | 64 | 64 | 5 | Funky Music Sho Nuff Turns Me On Edwin Starr |
| 65 | 91 | 65 | 2 | Never Can Say Goodbye Isaac Hayes |
| 66 | 59 | 59 | 8 | Freedom Jimi Hendrix |
| 67 | 67 | 58 | 11 | Bad Water The Raeletts |
| 68 | 78 | 68 | 5 | Brownsville Joy Of Cooking |
| 69 | 87 | 69 | 2 | Life/Only Believe Elvis Presley |
| 70 | 89 | 70 | 2 | Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again The Fortunes |
| 71 | 72 | 71 | 5 | Be Nice To Me Runt-Todd Rundgren |
| 72 | 76 | 72 | 6 | I'll Erase Away Your Pain Whatnauts |
| 73 | 80 | 73 | 5 | Take Me Home, Country Roads John Denver |
| 74 | 83 | 74 | 3 | Spinning Around (I Must Be Falling In Love) The Main Ingredient |
| 75 | 75 | 75 | 4 | I'm Comin' Home Dave Edmunds |
| 76 | 95 | 76 | 2 | Help Me Make It Through The Night Joe Simon |
| 77 | 79 | 77 | 3 | Try Some, Buy Some Ronnie Spector |
| 78 | 81 | 78 | 2 | Your Love (Means Everything to Me) Charles Wright And The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band |
| 79 | NEW | 79 | 1 | High Time We Went/Black-Eyed Blues Joe Cocker |
| 80 | 85 | 80 | 2 | You're My Man Lynn Anderson |
| 81 | 61 | 61 | 6 | We Were Always Sweethearts Boz Scaggs |
| 82 | NEW | 82 | 1 | Light Sings The 5th Dimension |
| 83 | 86 | 83 | 7 | Can't Find The Time Rose Colored Glass |
| 84 | 84 | 84 | 5 | Red Eye Blues Red Eye |
| 85 | 88 | 85 | 3 | Hot Love T. Rex |
| 86 | 97 | 86 | 2 | Ooh Poo Pah Doo Ike & Tina Turner |
| 87 | 96 | 87 | 2 | Tarkio Road Brewer And Shipley |
| 88 | NEW | 88 | 1 | Puppet Man/Resurrection Shuffle Tom Jones |
| 89 | 92 | 89 | 2 | Flim Flam Man Barbra Streisand |
| 90 | NEW | 90 | 1 | Don't Pull Your Love Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds |
| 91 | 93 | 91 | 3 | Sea Cruise Johnny Rivers |
| 92 | NEW | 92 | 1 | I Don't Wanna Lose You Johnnie Taylor |
| 93 | 94 | 93 | 3 | And I Love You So Bobby Goldsboro |
| 94 | NEW | 94 | 1 | Never Ending Song Of Love Delaney & Bonnie & Friends |
| 95 | NEW | 95 | 1 | Follow Me Mary Travers |
| 96 | NEW | 96 | 1 | Get It On Chase |
| 97 | 100 | 97 | 2 | Wholesale Love Buddy Miles |
| 98 | NEW | 98 | 1 | What You See Is What You Get Stoney & Meatloaf |
| 99 | 99 | 99 | 2 | California Earthquake Norman Greenbaum |
| 100 | NEW | 100 | 1 | I've Found Someone Of My Own The Free Movement |
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