List of Cash Box Top 100 number-one singles of 1971


These are the singles that reached number one on the Top 100 singles chart in 1971 as published in Cashbox magazine.

Issue Date Song Artist
January 2 "My Sweet Lord" George Harrison
January 9
January 16 "Knock Three Times" Dawn
January 23
January 30 "Lonely Days" Bee Gees
February 6 "Rose Garden" Lynn Anderson
February 13 "One Bad Apple" The Osmonds
February 20
February 27
March 6 "Mama's Pearl" The Jackson 5
March 13 "One Bad Apple" The Osmonds
March 20 "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)" The Temptations
March 27 "She's a Lady" Tom Jones
April 3 "Doesn't Somebody Want to Be Wanted" The Partridge Family
April 10 "What's Going On" Marvin Gaye
April 17 "Joy to the World" Three Dog Night
April 24
May 1
May 8
May 15
May 22
May 29 "Never Can Say Goodbye" The Jackson 5
June 5 "Want Ads" The Honey Cone
June 12
June 19 "It Don't Come Easy" Ringo Starr
June 26 "It's Too Late" Carole King
July 3
July 10
July 17
July 24 "Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian)" The Raiders
July 31 "Don't Pull Your Love" Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds
August 7 "You've Got a Friend" James Taylor
August 14 "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?" Bee Gees
August 21
August 28
September 4 "Take Me Home, Country Roads" John Denver
September 11 "Spanish Harlem" Aretha Franklin
September 18 "Smiling Faces Sometimes" Undisputed Truth
September 25 "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" Paul & Linda McCartney
October 2 "Go Away Little Girl" Donny Osmond
October 9 "Maggie May" Rod Stewart
October 16
October 23
October 30 "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves" Cher
November 6
November 13 "Theme from Shaft" Isaac Hayes
November 20
November 27 "Family Affair" Sly & the Family Stone
December 4
December 11
December 18
December 25 "Brand New Key" Melanie

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