# Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1971

This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 singles of 1971. The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated December 25, 1971, is based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of January 2 through November 27, 1971.
| No. | Title | Artist(s) |
| 1 | "Joy to the World" | Three Dog Night |
| 2 | "Maggie May"/"Reason to Believe" | Rod Stewart |
| 3 | "It's Too Late"/"I Feel the Earth Move" | Carole King |
| 4 | "One Bad Apple" | The Osmonds |
| 5 | "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" | Bee Gees |
| 6 | "Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian)" | Raiders |
| 7 | "Go Away Little Girl" | Donny Osmond |
| 8 | "Take Me Home, Country Roads" | John Denver |
| 9 | "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)" | The Temptations |
| 10 | "Knock Three Times" | Tony Orlando and Dawn |
| 11 | "Me and Bobby McGee" | Janis Joplin |
| 12 | "Tired of Being Alone" | Al Green |
| 13 | "Want Ads" | Honey Cone |
| 14 | "Smiling Faces Sometimes" | The Undisputed Truth |
| 15 | "Treat Her Like a Lady" | Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose |
| 16 | "Brown Sugar" | The Rolling Stones |
| 17 | "You've Got a Friend" | James Taylor |
| 18 | "Mr. Big Stuff" | Jean Knight |
| 19 | "Do You Know What I Mean" | Lee Michaels |
| 20 | "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" | Joan Baez |
| 21 | "What's Going On" | Marvin Gaye |
| 22 | "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" | Paul & Linda McCartney |
| 23 | "Ain't No Sunshine" | Bill Withers |
| 24 | "Signs" | Five Man Electrical Band |
| 25 | "She's a Lady" | Tom Jones |
| 26 | "I've Found Someone of My Own" | The Free Movement |
| 27 | "Superstar" | Murray Head & The Trinidad Singers |
| 28 | "Amos Moses" | Jerry Reed |
| 29 | "Temptation Eyes" | The Grass Roots |
| 30 | "Superstar" | The Carpenters |
| 31 | "My Sweet Lord"/"Isn't It A Pity" | George Harrison |
| 32 | "Sweet and Innocent" | Donny Osmond |
| 33 | "Put Your Hand in the Hand" | Ocean |
| 34 | "Chick-A-Boom (Don't Ya Jes' Love It)" | Daddy Dewdrop |
| 35 | "For All We Know" | The Carpenters |
| 36 | "If You Could Read My Mind" | Gordon Lightfoot |
| 37 | "Help Me Make It Through the Night" | Sammi Smith |
| 38 | "Rainy Days and Mondays" | The Carpenters |
| 39 | "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves" | Cher |
| 40 | "Never Can Say Goodbye" | The Jackson 5 |
| 41 | "Rose Garden" | Lynn Anderson |
| 42 | "Don't Pull Your Love" | Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds |
| 43 | "It Don't Come Easy" | Ringo Starr |
| 44 | "Mr. Bojangles" | Nitty Gritty Dirt Band |
| 45 | "I Love You for All Seasons" | The Fuzz |
| 46 | "Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get" | The Dramatics |
| 47 | "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be" | Carly Simon |
| 48 | "If You Really Love Me" | Stevie Wonder |
| 49 | "Spanish Harlem" | Aretha Franklin |
| 50 | "I Don't Know How to Love Him" | Helen Reddy |
| 51 | "Yo-Yo" | The Osmonds |
| 52 | "Bridge over Troubled Water" | Aretha Franklin |
| 53 | "Doesn't Somebody Want to Be Wanted" | The Partridge Family |
| 54 | "Draggin' the Line" | Tommy James |
| 55 | "Proud Mary" | Ike & Tina Turner |
| 56 | "Beginnings"/"Colour My World" | Chicago |
| 57 | "Stay Awhile" | The Bells |
| 58 | "Sweet City Woman" | The Stampeders |
| 59 | "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo" | Lobo |
| 60 | "Another Day"/"Oh Woman, Oh Why" | Paul McCartney |
| 61 | "If" | Bread |
| 62 | "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" | Marvin Gaye |
| 63 | "One Toke Over the Line" | Brewer & Shipley |
| 64 | "She's Not Just Another Woman" | 8th Day |
| 65 | "Bring the Boys Home" | Freda Payne |
| 66 | "I Just Want to Celebrate" | Rare Earth |
| 67 | "Never Ending Song of Love" | Delaney & Bonnie & Friends |
| 68 | "Easy Loving" | Freddie Hart |
| 69 | "Liar" | Three Dog Night |
| 70 | "Stick-Up" | Honey Cone |
| 71 | "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" | Mac and Katie Kissoon |
| 72 | "(Where Do I Begin?) Love Story" | Andy Williams |
| 73 | "Wild World" | Cat Stevens |
| 74 | "When You're Hot, You're Hot" | Jerry Reed |
| 75 | "Funky Nassau" | The Beginning of the End |
| 76 | "If Not for You" | Olivia Newton-John |
| 77 | "Groove Me" | King Floyd |
| 78 | "Watching Scotty Grow" | Bobby Goldsboro |
| 79 | "Woodstock" | Matthews Southern Comfort |
| 80 | "Amazing Grace" | Judy Collins |
| 81 | "I Hear You Knocking" | Dave Edmunds |
| 82 | "Lonely Days" | Bee Gees |
| 83 | "Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again" | The Fortunes |
| 84 | "Won't Get Fooled Again" | The Who |
| 85 | "Trapped By a Thing Called Love" | Denise LaSalle |
| 86 | "Mama's Pearl" | The Jackson 5 |
| 87 | "Timothy" | The Buoys |
| 88 | "I Woke Up In Love This Morning" | The Partridge Family |
| 89 | "Theme from Shaft" | Isaac Hayes |
| 90 | "If I Were Your Woman" | Gladys Knight & the Pips |
| 91 | "I Am...I Said" | Neil Diamond |
| 92 | "The Wedding Song (There Is Love)" | Paul Stookey |
| 93 | "Don't Knock My Love" | Wilson Pickett |
| 94 | "Love Her Madly" | The Doors |
| 95 | "Here Comes the Sun" | Richie Havens |
| 96 | "Sweet Mary" | Wadsworth Mansion |
| 97 | "Right on the Tip of My Tongue" | Brenda & the Tabulations |
| 98 | "One Less Bell to Answer" | The 5th Dimension |
| 99 | "Riders on the Storm" | The Doors |
| 100 | "It's Impossible" | Perry Como |