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List of Adult Contemporary top 10 singles in 1973 (U.S.)

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This is a list of songs that have charted in the top ten of the Billboard Adult Contemporary in 1973.

Top-ten singles[edit]

List of Billboard Adult Contemporary top ten singles which peaked in 1973
Top ten

entry date

Single Artist(s) Peak Peak date Weeks in

top ten

Singles from 1972
December 23 "Separate Ways" Elvis Presley 3 January 20 7
"Been to Canaan" Carole King 1 January 13 5
"Oh, Babe, What Would You Say?" Hurricane Smith 2 January 20 7
December 30 "You're So Vain" Carly Simon 1 January 20 8
Singles from 1973
January 6 "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" Blue Haze 5 January 13 4
January 13 "Rocky Mountain High" John Denver 3 February 10 9
"Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight" James Taylor 3 February 3 5
January 20 "Pieces of April" Three Dog Night 6 January 20 2
"Me and Mrs. Jones" Billy Paul 10 January 20 1
January 27 "Don't Expect Me to Be Your Friend" Lobo 1 February 3 7
"Looking Through the Eyes of Love" The Partridge Family 9 January 27 1
"Dreidel" Don McLean 7 February 10 5
February 3 "Dueling Banjos" Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell 1 February 17 7
"Last Song" Edward Bear 1 March 3 8
"I'm Never Gonna Be Alone Anymore" Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose 10 February 3 2
February 10 "Living Together, Growing Together" The 5th Dimension 5 February 17 4
"Killing Me Softly with His Song" Roberta Flack 2 March 17 9
February 17 "Good Morning Heartache" Diana Ross 8 February 17 2
"Danny's Song" Anne Murray 1 March 17 8
February 24 "Big City Miss Ruth Ann" Gallery 10 February 24 1
March 3 "Aubrey" Bread 4 March 17 5
"Do You Want to Dance?" Bette Midler 8 March 10 2
"Rosalie" Sam Neely 9 March 10 2
March 10 "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" Tony Orlando & Dawn 1 April 7 10
March 17 "Sing" The Carpenters 1 March 31 8
"Peaceful" Helen Reddy 2 April 14 7
"Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001)" Deodato 5 April 7 5
"Daisy a Day" Jud Strunk 4 April 7 6
March 24 "One Less Set of Footsteps" Jim Croce 9 March 24 1
March 31 "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" Vicki Lawrence 6 April 7 4
April 7 "Out of the Question" Gilbert O'Sullivan 2 May 12 8
"Cook with Honey" Judy Collins 10 April 7 1
April 14 "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" Stevie Wonder 1 April 28 9
"Stir It Up" Johnny Nash 6 April 21 3
"The Right Thing to Do" Carly Simon 4 May 5 9
April 21 "The Twelfth of Never" Donny Osmond 7 May 5 3
April 28 "And I Love You So" Perry Como 1 May 26 10
"Wildflower" Skylark 5 May 19 5
May 5 "Daniel" Elton John 1 May 12 8
"Thinking of You" Loggins & Messina 7 May 26 5
May 12 "It Sure Took a Long, Long Time" Lobo 3 May 26 4
"My Love" Wings 1 June 2 8
May 19 "I'm Doin' Fine Now" New York City 8 May 26 3
June 2 "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" Bette Midler 1 June 23 10
"Playground in My Mind" Clint Holmes 7 June 9 3
June 9 "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" George Harrison 4 June 16 6
"What About Me" Anne Murray 2 June 23 6
"The Teddy Bear Song" Barbara Fairchild 9 June 9 1
June 16 "Kodachrome" Paul Simon 2 July 7 6
"Behind Closed Doors" Charlie Rich 8 June 16 2
"You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart)" The Stylistics 4 July 7 4
June 23 "Yesterday Once More" The Carpenters 1 July 7 8
June 30 "Never, Never, Never (Grande, Grande, Grande)" Shirley Bassey 8 June 30 3
"Shambala" Three Dog Night 3 July 14 4
July 7 "Diamond Girl" Seals & Crofts 4 July 21 5
"Touch Me in the Morning" Diana Ross 1 July 28 8
July 14 "Get Down" Gilbert O'Sullivan 3 August 11 9
July 21 "Delta Dawn" Helen Reddy 1 August 4 10
"How Can I Tell Her" Lobo 4 August 4 7
"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" Jim Croce 9 July 21 1
July 28 "Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose" Tony Orlando & Dawn 1 August 18 9
"The Morning After" Maureen McGovern 6 August 4 3
"Clouds" David Gates 3 August 25 7
August 11 "You Light Up My Life/Believe in Humanity" Carole King 6 September 1 5
"Live and Let Die" Wings 8 August 25 4
August 18 "Send a Little Love My Way"[A] Anne Murray 10 August 18 2
August 25 "Loves Me Like a Rock" Paul Simon with the Dixie Hummingbirds 1 September 8 10
"My Maria" B.W. Stevenson 1 September 22 9
September 1 "Loving Arms" Dobie Gray 7 September 15 3
September 8 "I'm Coming Home"[B] Johnny Mathis 1 September 29 8
September 15 "Half-Breed" Cher 3 September 29 7
"In the Midnight Hour" Cross Country 6 September 22 5
"It's a Small Small World" The Mike Curb Congregation 9 September 15 1
"Freedom for the Stallion" The Hues Corporation 9 September 22 2
September 22 "Ashes to Ashes" The 5th Dimension 7 September 29 3
"Rhapsody in Blue" Deodato 10 September 22 2
September 29 "All I Know" Art Garfunkel 1 October 6 10
"Let Me In" The Osmonds 4 October 20 6
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" Bob Dylan 5 October 20 8
October 6 "Paper Roses" Marie Osmond 1 November 3 10
October 13 "Jesse" Roberta Flack 3 October 20 6
October 20 "We May Never Pass This Way (Again)" Seals & Crofts 2 November 10 7
October 27 "The Most Beautiful Girl" Charlie Rich 1 November 10 14
"Top of the World" The Carpenters 2 November 17 9
November 3 "Friends" Bette Midler 9 November 3 2
"I Got a Name" Jim Croce 4 November 24 6
November 10 "Photograph" Ringo Starr 3 December 8 8
November 24 "Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)" Helen Reddy 1 December 1 11
"Just You 'n' Me" Chicago 7 December 8 7
"Corazon" Carole King 5 December 8 4
December 8 "Who's in the Strawberry Patch with Sally" Tony Orlando & Dawn 3 December 15 7
"Let Me Be There" Olivia Newton-John 3 December 29 10
December 15 "My Music" Loggins & Messina 10 December 15 1
"Time in a Bottle" Jim Croce 1 December 29 10
December 22 "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" Elton John 7 December 29 5

1972 peaks[edit]

List of Billboard Adult Contemporary top ten singles in 1973 which peaked in 1972
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November 11 "It Never Rains in Southern California" Albert Hammond 2 December 16 9
November 18 "Clair" Gilbert O'Sullivan 1 December 9 9
"Funny Face" Donna Fargo 5 December 16 8
December 9 "Sweet Surrender" Bread 1 December 30 7
"Walk on Water" Neil Diamond 2 December 30 6

1974 peaks[edit]

List of Billboard Adult Contemporary top ten singles in 1973 which peaked in 1974
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Single Artist(s) Peak Peak date Weeks in

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December 22 "The Way We Were" Barbara Streisand 1 January 12 12
December 29 "Show and Tell" Al Wilson 3 January 26 7

Notes[edit]

A The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending September 8, 1973.

B The single re-entered the top ten on the week ending November 17, 1973.

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