List of Billboard Easy Listening number ones of 1972
Chart history

List of Billboard Easy Listening number ones of 1972

Section Title: Chart history
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Issue date	Title	Artist(s)	Ref.

January 1	"An Old Fashioned Love Song"	Three Dog Night

January 8	"Cherish"	David Cassidy

January 15	"American Pie"	Don McLean

January 22

January 29

February 5	"Hurting Each Other"	The Carpenters

February 12

February 19	"Without You"	Nilsson

February 26

March 4

March 11

March 18

March 25	"Rock and Roll Lullaby"	B. J. Thomas

April 1	"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"	Roberta Flack

April 8

April 15

April 22

April 29

May 6

May 13	"Morning Has Broken"	Cat Stevens

May 20	"The Candy Man"	Sammy Davis, Jr.

May 27

June 3	"Song Sung Blue"	Neil Diamond

June 10

June 17

June 24

July 1

July 8

July 15

July 22	"Where Is the Love"	Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway

July 29	"Alone Again (Naturally)"	Gilbert O'Sullivan

August 5

August 12

August 19

August 26

September 2

September 9	"The Guitar Man"	Bread

September 16	"Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me"	Mac Davis

September 23

September 30

October 7	"Black and White"	Three Dog Night

October 14	"Garden Party"	Rick Nelson

October 21

October 28	"If I Could Reach You"	The 5th Dimension

November 4	"I Can See Clearly Now"	Johnny Nash

November 11

November 18

November 25

December 2	"I'd Love You to Want Me"	Lobo

December 9	"Clair"	Gilbert O'Sullivan

December 16

December 23

December 30	"Sweet Surrender"	Bread

Sentence(s)

I'd Love You to Want Me hit #1 on the Easy Listening chart in December 1972.

final_sentence: I'd Love You to Want Me hit #1 on the Easy Listening chart in December 1972.