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Billboard Hot 100 Charts of 1973

Browse every weekly Billboard Hot 100 chart from 1973 — 52 charts in all. 27 different songs reached #1 during the year. The song that spent the most weeks at #1 during 1973 was "Killing Me Softly With His Song" by Roberta Flack (5 weeks on top). Roberta Flack held the #1 spot for the most weeks of any artist that year.

52weekly charts
27different #1 songs
5weeks at #1 for the year's biggest song
38weeks on the chart for the year's longest-running debut

Number-one songs of 1973

Reached #1Weeks at #1SongArtist
January 6, 19733You're So VainCarly Simon
January 27, 19731SuperstitionStevie Wonder
February 3, 19733Crocodile RockElton John
February 24, 19734Killing Me Softly With His SongRoberta Flack
March 24, 19731Love TrainThe O'Jays
March 31, 19731Killing Me Softly With His SongRoberta Flack
April 7, 19732The Night The Lights Went Out In GeorgiaVicki Lawrence
April 21, 19734Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak TreeDawn Featuring Tony Orlando
May 19, 19731You Are The Sunshine Of My LifeStevie Wonder
May 26, 19731FrankensteinEdgar Winter Group
June 2, 19734My LovePaul McCartney And Wings
June 30, 19731Give Me Love - (Give Me Peace On Earth)George Harrison
July 7, 19732Will It Go Round In CirclesBilly Preston
July 21, 19732Bad, Bad Leroy BrownJim Croce
August 4, 19732The Morning AfterMaureen McGovern
August 18, 19731Touch Me In The MorningDiana Ross
August 25, 19732Brother LouieStories
September 8, 19731Let's Get It OnMarvin Gaye
September 15, 19731Delta DawnHelen Reddy
September 22, 19731Let's Get It OnMarvin Gaye
September 29, 19731We're An American BandGrand Funk
October 6, 19732Half-BreedCher
October 20, 19731AngieThe Rolling Stones
October 27, 19732Midnight Train To GeorgiaGladys Knight And The Pips
November 10, 19732Keep On Truckin' (Part 1)Eddie Kendricks
November 24, 19731PhotographRingo Starr
December 1, 19732Top Of The WorldCarpenters
December 15, 19732The Most Beautiful GirlCharlie Rich
December 29, 19732Time In A BottleJim Croce

Artists with the most weeks at #1 in 1973

  1. Roberta Flack — 5 weeks
  2. Dawn Featuring Tony Orlando — 4 weeks
  3. Paul McCartney And Wings — 4 weeks
  4. Carly Simon — 3 weeks
  5. Elton John — 3 weeks

Longest-running hits that debuted in 1973

Weeks on chartPeakSongArtistDebuted
38#16Why MeKris KristoffersonApril 7, 1973
29#6Dream OnAerosmithOctober 20, 1973
25#5Rock OnDavid EssexNovember 10, 1973
23#1Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak TreeDawn Featuring Tony OrlandoFebruary 17, 1973
23#1The Way We WereBarbra StreisandNovember 24, 1973
23#2Playground In My MindClint HolmesMarch 24, 1973
23#3Little WillyThe SweetJanuary 20, 1973
23#3Spiders & SnakesJim StaffordNovember 10, 1973
22#1Will It Go Round In CirclesBilly PrestonMarch 31, 1973
22#1Bad, Bad Leroy BrownJim CroceApril 21, 1973

Every chart from 1973

January 6, 1973 January 13, 1973 January 20, 1973 January 27, 1973 February 3, 1973 February 10, 1973 February 17, 1973 February 24, 1973 March 3, 1973 March 10, 1973 March 17, 1973 March 24, 1973 March 31, 1973 April 7, 1973 April 14, 1973 April 21, 1973 April 28, 1973 May 5, 1973 May 12, 1973 May 19, 1973 May 26, 1973 June 2, 1973 June 9, 1973 June 16, 1973 June 23, 1973 June 30, 1973 July 7, 1973 July 14, 1973 July 21, 1973 July 28, 1973 August 4, 1973 August 11, 1973 August 18, 1973 August 25, 1973 September 1, 1973 September 8, 1973 September 15, 1973 September 22, 1973 September 29, 1973 October 6, 1973 October 13, 1973 October 20, 1973 October 27, 1973 November 3, 1973 November 10, 1973 November 17, 1973 November 24, 1973 December 1, 1973 December 8, 1973 December 15, 1973 December 22, 1973 December 29, 1973
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