Billboard Top 100 Hits From 1973
AC/DC (have always classified their music as "rock and roll" despite their "hard rock" and "heavy metal" reputation), Journey (with the, still popular, band's signature song, "Don't Stop Believin'"), KISS (their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting, smoking guitars, and pyrotechnics) all formed in 1973.
- Free Bird , Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Let's Get It On, Marvin Gaye
- Midnight Train To Georgia, Gladys Knight and the Pips
- Dream On, Aerosmith
- Living For the City, Stevie Wonder
- Money, Pink Floyd
- Piano Man, Billy Joel
- Killing Me Softly With His Song, Roberta Flack
- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Elton John
- That Lady, Isley Brothers
- Angie, Rolling Stones
- Bennie and the Jets, Elton John
- The Joker, Steve Miller Band
- Radar Love, Golden Earring
- Drift Away, Dobie Gray
- Higher Ground, Stevie Wonder
- Knockin' On Heaven's Door, Bob Dylan
- Get Up, Stand Up, Wailers
- Takin' Care Of Business, Bachman-Turner Overdrive
- Ramblin' Man, Allman Brothers Band
- Time, Pink Floyd
- Were an American Band, Grand Funk
- Band On the Run, Paul McCartney and Wings
- Natural High, Bloodstone
- Jessica, Allman Brothers Band
- When Will I See You Again, Three Degrees
- The Payback, James Brown
- Until You Come Back To Me, Aretha Franklin
- Long Train Runnin', Doobie Brothers
- Over the Hills and Far Away, Led Zeppelin
- Candle In the Wind, Elton John
- You Make Me Feel Brand New, Stylistics
- Rosalita, Bruce Springsteen
- Live and Let Die, Paul McCartney and Wings
- Behind Closed Doors, Charlie Rich
- Never, Never Gonna Give Ya Up, Barry White
- La Grange, ZZ Top
- Jet, Paul McCartney and Wings
- Desperado, Eagles
- Bad Bad Leroy Brown, Jim Croce
- I Can't Stand the Rain, Ann Peebles
- Love's Theme, Love Unlimited Orchestra
- Jolene, Dolly Parton
- I Shot the Sheriff, Wailers
- Daniel, Elton John
- Kodachrome, Paul Simon
- China Grove, Doobie Brothers
- Cum On Feel the Noize, Slade
- Show and Tell, Al Wilson
- Rock On, David Essex
- Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me, Gladys Knight and the Pips
- Feelin' Stronger Every Day, Chicago
- Ballroom Blitz, The Sweet
- Rocky Mountain Way, Joe Walsh
- Diamond Girl, Seals and Crofts
- Personality Crisis, New York Dolls
- 20th Century Boy, T. Rex
- Brother Louie, Stories
- The Love I Lost, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
- Search and Destroy, Iggy and the Stooges
- For the Love Of Money, O'Jays
- Funeral For a Friend, Elton John
- Loves Me Like a Rock, Paul Simon
- Come and Get Your Love, Redbone
- She's Gone, Daryl Hall and John Oates
- Call Me, Al Green
- Seasons In the Sun, Terry Jacks
- Just You 'n' Me, Chicago
- Pillow Talk, Sylvia
- Hollywood Swinging, Kool and the Gang
- The Way We Were, Barbra Streisand
- I'm Doing Fine Now, New York City
- So Very Hard To Go, Tower of Power
- Can't You See, MarsHall Tucker Band
- Keep On Truckin', Eddie Kendricks
- Jungle Boogie, Kool and the Gang
- Brain Damage/Eclipse, Pink Floyd
- The Most Beautiful Girl, Charlie Rich
- D'Yer Maker, Led Zeppelin
- Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting, Elton John
- My Love, Paul McCartney and Wings
- I've Got To Use My Imagination, Gladys Knight and the Pips
- Photograph, Ringo Starr
- Give Me Love, George Harrison
- If You Want Me To Stay, Sly and the Family Stone
- Gimme Three Steps, Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Here I Am (Come and Take Me), Al Green
- Rock And Roll, Hoochie Coo, Rick Derringer
- Us and Them, Pink Floyd
- Tie a Yellow Ribbon, Dawn
- Love Reign O'er Me, The Who
- Boogie Down, Eddie Kendricks
- Doin' It To Death, Fred Wesley and the J.B.'s
- I'll Have To Say I Love You In a Song, Jim Croce
- Lady, Styx
- I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More , Barry White
- Tubular Bells, Mike Oldfield
- Right Place, Wrong Time, Dr. John
- Nutbush City Limits, Ike and Tina Turner
- I Got a Name, Jim Croce