List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1971

These are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1971.

That year, 16 acts hit number one for the first time, such as Dawn, the Osmonds, Janis Joplin, Honey Cone, Carole King, the Raiders, James Taylor, the Bee Gees, Linda McCartney, Donny Osmond, Rod Stewart, Isaac Hayes, and Melanie. Janis Joplin became the second artist to earn a number one song posthumously after her death in October 1970. Paul McCartney, Cher, and Donny Osmond, having already hit number one with the Beatles, Sonny & Cher, and the Osmonds, respectively, also earn their first number one songs as solo acts.

Chart history

Number-one artists

See also

• 1971 in music
• List of Billboard number-one singles
• Cashbox Top 100 singles of 1971
• List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of the 1970s

Sources

• Fred Bronson's Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, 5th Edition (ISBN 0-8230-7677-6)
• Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2008, 12 Edition (ISBN 0-89820-180-2)
• Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Seventies (ISBN 0-89820-076-8)
• Additional information obtained can be verified within Billboard's online archive services and print editions of the magazine.

References

1. Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1971
2. Lists of Billboard number-one singles
3. List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of the 1970s
4. List of Billboard Hot 100 chart achievements and milestones
5. Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1972
6. List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1971
7. Lists of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles
8. List of Latin songs on the Billboard Hot 100
9. List of Billboard Easy Listening number ones of 1971
10. List of Hot Country Singles number ones of 1971
11. Billboard Year-End
12. List of number-one singles of 1971 (Canada)
13. Family Affair (Sly and the Family Stone song)
14. List of Billboard number-one country songs
15. List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2000
16. List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2008
17. Are You Lonesome Tonight?
18. Bubbling Under Hot 100
19. List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2007
20. List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2005