Things are unraveling in America but great sound and new ways to listen have made music a true, immersive sanctuary like never before—in the car on eight-track tapes or at home on headphones. Country is surging, Singer-Songwriters are charting massive hits, and Rock and Soul artists are expanding music’s horizons on sprawling albums.
#1 Song of the Year
Artists of the Year
- Gladys Knight & The Pips
- Elton John
- Stevie Wonder
Artist with Most Charting Songs
- James Brown (6)
Average #1 Artist Age
- 29.0 years
#1 Songs
- Carly Simon – You’re So Vain (January, 3 wks)
- Stevie Wonder – Superstition (January, 1 wk)
- Elton John – Crocodile Rock (February, 3 wks)
- Roberta Flack – Killing Me Softly with His Song (February, 5 wks)
- The O’Jays – Love Train (March, 1 wk)
- Vicki Lawrence – The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia (April, 2 wks)
- Dawn feat. Tony Orlando – Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree (April, 4 wks)
- Stevie Wonder – You Are the Sunshine of My Life (May, 1 wk)
- Edgar Winter Group – Frankenstein (May, 1 wk)
- Paul McCartney & Wings – My Love (June, 4 wks)
- George Harrison – Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) (June, 1 wk)
- Billy Preston – Will It Go Round in Circles (July, 2 wks)
- Jim Croce – Bad, Bad Leroy Brown (July, 2 wks)
- Maureen McGovern – The Morning After (August, 2 wks)
- Diana Ross – Touch Me in the Morning (August, 1 wk)
- Stories – Brother Louie (August, 2 wks)
- Marvin Gaye – Let’s Get It On (September, 2 wks)
- Helen Reddy – Delta Dawn (September, 1 wk)
- Grand Funk – We’re an American Band (September, 1 wk)
- Cher – Half-Breed (October, 2 wks)
- The Rolling Stones – Angie (October, 1 wk)
- Gladys Knight & The Pips – Midnight Train to Georgia (October, 2 wks)
- Eddie Kendricks – Keep On Truckin’ (Part 1) (November, 2 wks)
- Ringo Starr – Photograph (November, 1 wk)
- Carpenters – Top of the World (December, 2 wks)
- Charlie Rich – The Most Beautiful Girl (December, 2 wks)
