Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1972
This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1972. The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated December 30, 1972, is based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of December 4, 1971 through December 18, 1972.
| No. | Title | Artist |
| 1 | "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" | Roberta Flack |
| 2 | "Alone Again " | Gilbert O'Sullivan |
| 3 | "American Pie" | Don McLean |
| 4 | "Without You" | Harry Nilsson |
| 5 | "The Candy Man" | Sammy Davis Jr. |
| 6 | "I Gotcha" | Joe Tex |
| 7 | "Lean on Me" | Bill Withers |
| 8 | "Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me" | Mac Davis |
| 9 | "Brand New Key" | Melanie |
| 10 | "Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast" | Wayne Newton |
| 11 | "Let's Stay Together" | Al Green |
| 12 | "Brandy " | Looking Glass |
| 13 | "Oh Girl" | The Chi-Lites |
| 14 | "Nice to Be with You" | Gallery |
| 15 | "My Ding-a-Ling" | Chuck Berry |
| 16 | " I Don't Want to Be Right" | Luther Ingram |
| 17 | "Heart of Gold" | Neil Young |
| 18 | "Betcha by Golly, Wow" | The Stylistics |
| 19 | "I'll Take You There" | The Staple Singers |
| 20 | "Ben" | Michael Jackson |
| 21 | "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" | Robert John |
| 22 | "Outa-Space" | Billy Preston |
| 23 | "Slippin' into Darkness" | War |
| 24 | "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" | The Hollies |
| 25 | "How Do You Do" | Mouth & MacNeal |
| 26 | "Song Sung Blue" | Neil Diamond |
| 27 | "A Horse with No Name" | America |
| 28 | "Popcorn" | Hot Butter |
| 29 | "Everybody Plays the Fool" | The Main Ingredient |
| 30 | "Precious and Few" | Climax |
| 31 | " I Didn't Get to Sleep at All" | The 5th Dimension |
| 32 | "Nights in White Satin" | The Moody Blues |
| 33 | "Go All the Way" | Raspberries |
| 34 | "Too Late to Turn Back Now" | Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose |
| 35 | "Back Stabbers" | The O'Jays |
| 36 | "Down by the Lazy River" | The Osmonds |
| 37 | "Sunshine" | Jonathan Edwards |
| 38 | "Starting All Over Again" | Mel and Tim |
| 39 | "Day After Day" | Badfinger |
| 40 | "Rocket Man" | Elton John |
| 41 | "Rockin' Robin" | Michael Jackson |
| 42 | "Beautiful Sunday" | Daniel Boone |
| 43 | "Scorpio" | Dennis Coffey |
| 44 | "Morning Has Broken" | Cat Stevens |
| 45 | "City of New Orleans" | Arlo Guthrie |
| 46 | "Garden Party" | Ricky Nelson |
| 47 | "I Can See Clearly Now" | Johnny Nash |
| 48 | "Burning Love" | Elvis Presley |
| 49 | "Clean Up Woman" | Betty Wright |
| 50 | "Hold Your Head Up" | Argent |
| 51 | "Jungle Fever" | The Chakachas |
| 52 | "Everything I Own" | Bread |
| 53 | "In the Rain" | The Dramatics |
| 54 | "Look What You Done for Me" | Al Green |
| 55 | "The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A." | Donna Fargo |
| 56 | "Bang a Gong " | T. Rex |
| 57 | "Mother and Child Reunion" | Paul Simon |
| 58 | "Where Is the Love" | Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway |
| 59 | "I'm Still in Love with You" | Al Green |
| 60 | "Layla" | Derek and the Dominos |
| 61 | "Day Dreaming" | Aretha Franklin |
| 62 | "The Way of Love" | Cher |
| 63 | "Black and White" | Three Dog Night |
| 64 | "Sylvia's Mother" | Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show |
| 65 | "Hurting Each Other" | The Carpenters |
| 66 | "Coconut" | Harry Nilsson |
| 67 | "Puppy Love" | Donny Osmond |
| 68 | "You Don't Mess Around with Jim" | Jim Croce |
| 69 | "Hot Rod Lincoln" | Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen |
| 70 | "A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done" | Sonny & Cher |
| 71 | "Joy" | Apollo 100 |
| 72 | "Anticipation" | Carly Simon |
| 73 | "Never Been to Spain" | Three Dog Night |
| 74 | "Kiss an Angel Good Mornin'" | Charley Pride |
| 75 | "School's Out" | Alice Cooper |
| 76 | "Saturday in the Park" | Chicago |
| 77 | "Drowning in the Sea of Love" | Joe Simon |
| 78 | "Use Me" | Bill Withers |
| 79 | "Family Affair" | Sly & the Family Stone |
| 80 | "Troglodyte " | The Jimmy Castor Bunch |
| 81 | "The Witch Queen of New Orleans" | Redbone |
| 82 | "Freddie's Dead" | Curtis Mayfield |
| 83 | "Power of Love" | Joe Simon |
| 84 | "Ain't Understanding Mellow" | Jerry Butler & Brenda Lee Eager |
| 85 | "Taxi" | Harry Chapin |
| 86 | "Don't Say You Don't Remember" | Beverly Bremers |
| 87 | "Sealed with a Kiss" | Bobby Vinton |
| 88 | "I Saw the Light" | Todd Rundgren |
| 89 | "Motorcycle Mama" | Sailcat |
| 90 | "Day by Day" | Original Cast of Godspell |
| 91 | "Roundabout" | Yes |
| 92 | "Doctor My Eyes" | Jackson Browne |
| 93 | "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing " | The New Seekers |
| 94 | "Vincent" | Don McLean |
| 95 | "Baby Let Me Take You " | The Detroit Emeralds |
| 96 | "Speak to the Sky" | Rick Springfield |
| 97 | "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing " | The Hillside Singers |
| 98 | "Walkin' in the Rain with the One I Love" | Love Unlimited |
| 99 | "Get on the Good Foot" | James Brown |
| 100 | "Pop That Thang" | The Isley Brothers |