Billboard Top 100 Hits From 1972
Although Elvis and Priscilla seperate, Highway 51 South in Memphis, Tennessee is renamed "Elvis Presley Blvd". "Steppenwolf Day" is declared in Los Angeles, California.
- Superstition , Stevie Wonder
- Papa Was a Rollin' Stone, Temptations
- Smoke on the Water, Deep Purple
- Lean on Me, Bill Withers
- Heart of Gold, Neil Young
- Walk on the Wild Side, Lou Reed
- You Are the Sunshine of My Life, Stevie Wonder
- If You Don't Know Me by Now, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
- I'll Take You There, Staple Singers
- Tumbling Dice, Rolling Stones
- Love Train, O'Jays
- You're So Vain, Carly Simon
- Oh Girl, Chi-Lites
- Take It Easy, Eagles
- I'll Be Around, Spinners
- Reeling in the Years, Steely Dan
- Rocket Man, Elton John
- School's Out, Alice Cooper
- All the Young Dudes, Mott the Hoople
- The Harder They Come, Jimmy Cliff
- Back Stabbers, O'Jays
- I Can See Clearly Now, Johnny Nash
- Burning Love, Elvis Presley
- I'm Still in Love With You, Al Green
- Listen to the Music, Doobie Brothers
- Alone Again (Naturally), Gilbert O'Sullivan
- Crocodile Rock, Elton John
- Stuck in the Middle With You, Stealers Wheel
- I Saw the Light, Todd Rundgren
- Rock and Roll, Part 2, Gary Glitter
- Me and Mrs. Jones, Billy Paul
- Do It Again, Steely Dan
- Could It Be I'm Falling in Love, Spinners
- Garden Party, Rick Nelson
- Go All the Way, Raspberries
- Freddie's Dead, Curtis Mayfield
- You Wear It Well, Rod Stewart
- Ziggy Stardust, David Bowie
- Saturday in the Park, Chicago
- Superfly, Curtis Mayfield
- Brandy, Looking Glass
- Time in a Bottle, Jim Croce
- Starman, David Bowie
- Suavecito, Malo
- Doctor My Eyes, Jackson Browne
- Love and Happiness, Al Green
- Summer Breeze, Seals and Crofts
- The Cisco Kid, War
- I'm Stone in Love With You, Stylistics
- I Am Woman, Helen Reddy
- Suffragette City, David Bowie
- Virginia Plain, Roxy Music
- Everybody Plays the Fool, Main Ingredient
- Frankenstein, Edgar Winter Group
- Neither One of Us, Gladys Knight and the Pips
- Hello It's Me, Todd Rundgren
- Look What You Done for Me, Al Green
- Why Can't We Live Together, Timmy Thomas
- Sail Away, Randy Newman
- Ain't No Woman, Four Tops
- Too Late to Turn Back Now, Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
- Break Up to Make Up, Stylistics
- Your Mama Don't Dance, Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina
- Free Ride, Edgar Winter Group
- Day Dreaming, Aretha Franklin
- The Jean Genie, David Bowie
- Get on the Good Foot, James Brown
- Dancing in the Moonlight, King Harvest
- The Guitar Man, Bread
- Peaceful Easy Feeling, Eagles
- You Don't Mess Around With Jim, Jim Croce
- Easy Livin', Uriah Heep
- You're Still a Young Man, Tower of Power
- Mother and Child Reunion, Paul Simon
- Rockin' Pneumonia, Johnny Rivers
- In the Rain, Dramatics
- Ventura Highway, America
- Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard, Paul Simon
- Witchy Woman, Eagles
- If Loving You Is Wrong, Luther Ingram
- In a Rock & Roll Band, Moody Blues
- Everything I Own, Bread
- Honky Cat, Elton John
- Top of the World, Carpenters
- I'd Love You to Want Me, Lobo
- One of a Kind (Love Affair), Spinners
- You Ought to Be With Me, Al Green
- Amie, Pure Prairie League
- Taxi, Harry Chapin
- Rocky Mountain High, John Denver
- Telegram Sam, T. Rex
- Happy, Rolling Stones
- Operator, Jim Croce
- Hold Your Head Up, Argent
- Black and White, Three Dog Night
- Walking in the Rain With the One I Love, Love Unlimited
- Soul Makossa, Manu Dibango
- Use Me, Bill Withers
- Conquistador (live), Procol Harum
- The World Is a Ghetto, War