May 12, 1972

1	1	War--Slippin' Into Darkness
4	2	Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show--Sylvia's Mother
9	3	Chi-Lites--Oh Girl
2	4	Gallery--Nice to Be With You
3	5	Don McLean--Vincent
8	6	Bread--Diary
5	7	Todd Rundgren--I Saw the Light
19	8	Neil Diamond--Song Sung Blue
6	9	Roberta Flack--The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
15	10	Neil Young--Old Man
27	11	Staple Singers--I'll Take You There
11	12	Jackson Browne--Doctor My Eyes
13	13	Rolling Stones--Tumbling Dice
25	14	Wayne Newton--Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast
7	15	Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen--Hot Rod Lincoln
33	16	Mouth & MacNeal--How Do You Do?
10	17	Stylistics--Betcha By Golly, Wow
38	18	Jimmy Castor Bunch--Troglodyte (Cave Man)
23	19	Carpenters--It's Going to Take Some Time
12	20	America--A Horse With No Name
18	21	Little Jimmy Osmond--Long Haired Lover From Liverpool
17	22	Al Green--Look What You Done For Me
32	23	5th Dimension--(Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All
16	24	Aretha Franklin--Day Dreaming
14	25	Donny Osmond--Puppy Love
20	26	Sammy Davis, Jr.--The Candy Man
21	27	Harry Chapin--Taxi
45	28	Mal--Mighty Mighty and Roly Poly
26	29	Cat Stevens--Morning Has Broken
37	30	Carly Simon--Legend in Your Own Time
---	31	Royal Scots Dragoon Guards--Amazing Grace
22	32	June Jackson--Little Dog Heaven
40	33	Derek & the Dominoes--Layla
24	34	David Bowie--Changes
35	35	Supremes--Automatically Sunshine
41	36	Jo Jo Gunne--Run Run Run
28	37	Michael Jackson--Rockin' Robin
---	38	Raiders--Powder Blue Mercedes Queen
39	39	Moody Blues--Isn't Life Strange
42	40	Jerry Wallace--To Get to You
---	41	Cher--Living in a House Divided
31	42	Joe Tex--I Gotcha
---	43	Billy Preston--Outa-Space
36	44	Sugar Bears--You Are the One
34	45	Neil Young--Heart of Gold
---	46	Beverly Bremers--We're Free
44	47	Love Unlimited--Walkin' in the Rain With the One I Love
29	48	Jackson Five--Little Bitty Pretty One
30	49	Dramatics--In the Rain
---	50	Ranji--It's So Easy (To Be Bad)

One of this week’s debuts only Bubbled Under the Hot 100—“It’s So Easy (To Be Bad)” by pop singer Ranji, a number 109 hit that will get to number 32 here. The others were all top 60 hits; worth mentioning are the Raiders’ “Powder Blue Mercedes Queen” (54BB/14KJR) and Beverly Bremers’ follow-up to “Don’t Say You Don’t Remember,” “We’re Free” (40/10). “Amazing Grace” by the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards debuts up at number 31 and will get to number seven in two weeks, but will get no higher and will only spend six weeks on the survey.

Year-End 1964

1	1	1	Beatles--I Want to Hold Your Hand
2	1	1	Beatles--She Loves You
3	6	1	Louis Armstrong--Hello Dolly
4	1	1	Roy Orbison--Oh Pretty Woman
5	1	1	Peter & Gordon--A World Without Love
6	1/1	1/1	Beatles--A Hard Day's Night/Can't Buy Me Love
7	1	3	Four Seasons--Dawn
8	1	2	Beatles--Twist and Shout
9	1	1	Animals--The House of the Rising Sun
10	1	1	Dixie Cups--Chapel of Love
11	2	1	Dean Martin--Everybody Loves Somebody
12	2/2	7/9	Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas--Little Children/Bad to Me
13	1	2	J. Frank Wilson & the Cavaliers--Last Kiss
14	1	5	Shangri-La's--Remember (Walking in the Sand)
15	1	1	Manfred Mann--Do Wah Diddy Diddy
16	2	2	Newbeats--Bread and Butter
17	8	3	Ray Charles Singers--Love Me With All Your Heart
18	1	2	Beatles--Do You Want to Know a Secret?
19	1	1	Four Seasons--Rag Doll
20	1	1	Beach Boys--I Get Around
21	2	2	Johnny Rivers--Memphis
22	1/1	10/1	Beatles--P.S. I Love You/Love Me Do
23	1	4	Dave Clark Five--Bits and Pieces
24	3	19	Jerry Wallace--In the Misty Moonlight
25	1	10	Jan & Dean--Drag City
26	2	6	Diane Renay--Navy Blue
27	1	6	Dusty Springfield--Wishin' and Hopin'
28	2	1	Mary Wells--My Guy
29	1	4	Dave Clark Five--Can't You See That She's Mine
30	4	7	Gene Pitney--It Hurts to Be in Love
31	1	1	Shangri-La's--Leader of the Pack
32	2	4	Gerry & the Pacemakers--Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying
33	2	3	Jan & Dean--The Little Old Lady From Pasadena
34	4	5	Beach Boys--Fun, Fun, Fun
35	2	1	Supremes--Where Did Our Love Go/
36	6	1	Lorne Green--Ringo
37	3	9	Roy Orbison--It's Over
38	1	9	Hondells--Little Honda
39	3	7	Chad & Jeremy--A Summer Song
40	4	4	Al Hirt--Java
41	3	4	Trashmen--Surfin' Bird
42	4	2	Lesley Gore--You Don't Own Me
43	3	9	Tommy Leonetti--Soul Dance
44	1	5	Honeycombs--Have I the Right?
45	2	8	Dale & Grace--Stop and Think it Over
46	3	3	Terry Stafford--Suspicion
47	3	4	Drifters--Under the Boardwalk
48	3	2	Millie Small--My Boy Lollipop
49	8	7	Roger Miller--Dang Me
50	1	3	Beatles--Please, Please Me

Another out-of-sequence post filling in a gap. The first column is the year-end ranking, second is peak position on the survey, third is peak position at Billboard. 

This looks like a pretty good survey, with just Louis Armstrong and the Ray Charles Singers seeming a bit out of place.  There are a lot more top three hits, though most of them were only on the survey for a short period of time:

Kinks—You Really Got Me (peaked at #1, 9 weeks on the survey)

Beatles—If I Fell (1, 8)

Beatles—Boys (1, 5)

Bobby Vinton—Mr. Lonely (2, 12)

Ventures—Walk Don’t Run ’64 (2, 11)

Danny Williams—White on White (2, 9)

Jan & Dean—New Girl in School (2, 8)

Brenda Lee—Is it True? (2, 8)

Dave Clark Five—Any Way You Want it (2, 8)

Chuck Berry—You Never Can Tell (2, 7)

Beach Boys—Wendy (2, 7)

Four Tops—Baby I Need Your Loving (2, 6)

Gestures—Run, Run, Run (3, 12)

Beatles—And I Love Her (3, 9)

Sonny Knight—If You Want This Love (3, 9)

Reflections—(Just Like) Romeo & Juliet (3, 8)

Four Seasons—Save it For Me (3, 7)

Newbeats—Everything’s Alright (3, 7)

Martha & the Vandellas—Dancing in the Street (3, 6)

It’s odd that “A Hard Day’s Night” and “Can’t Buy Me Love” are listed as a single entry, since they were not two sides of the same record, and they came out almost four months apart.