page_title: List of Billboard Easy Listening number ones of 1971
section_title: Chart history
hierarchical_section_title: List of Billboard Easy Listening number ones of 1971 / Chart history
caption_attribution_description: English: Trade ad for Bobby Goldsboro's single "Goodbye To All You Women".To better adapt it to his respective Wikipedia article, the ad was cropped and cleaned in a graphics editing program. The original can be viewed at the source below.
context_page_description: Adult Contemporary is a chart published by Billboard ranking the top-performing songs in the United States in the adult contemporary music genre. In 1971, 19 songs topped the chart, then published under the title Easy Listening, based on playlists submitted by easy listening radio stations and sales reports submitted by stores.
  In the issue of Billboard dated January 2, The 5th Dimension moved into the number one position, replacing "It's Impossible" by Perry Como. The song held the top spot for a single week before being replaced by Bobby Goldsboro's "Watching Scotty Grow". Goldsboro's song topped the chart for six consecutive weeks, the year's longest unbroken run at number one. The Carpenters spent the most total weeks at number one in 1971, occupying the top spot for a total of nine weeks with "For All We Know", "Rainy Days and Mondays" and "Superstar". The brother-sister duo was the only act to achieve three number ones during the year; The 5th Dimension and Bread were the only other acts to take more than one single to the top of the chart in 1971.
caption: Bobby Goldsboro spent six consecutive weeks at number one with "Watching Scotty Grow", the longest unbroken run of the year.
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