October 20, 1972

1	1	Delegates--Convention '72
2	2	Michael Jackson--Ben
4	3	Lobo--I'd Love You to Want Me
3	4	Eagles--Witchy Woman
5	5	Emerson, Lake & Palmer--From the Beginning
6	6	Helen Reddy--I Am Woman
8	7	Johnny Nash--I Can See Clearly Now
7	8	Curtis Mayfield--Freddie's Dead (Theme From "Superfly")
15	9	5th Dimension--If I Could Reach You
19	10	Spinners--I'll Be Around
12	11	Seals & Crofts--Summer Breeze
13	12	Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose--Don't Ever Be Lonely
17	13	Austin Roberts--Something's Wrong With Me
9	14	Elvis Presley--Burning Love
10	15	Mel & Tim--Starting All Over Again
11	16	King Harvest--Dancing in the Moonlight
14	17	Gallery--I Believe in Music
20	18	Temptations--Papa Was a Rollin' Stone
16	19	Chicago--Saturday in the Park
26	20	America--Ventura Highway
18	21	Main Ingredient--Everybody Plays the Fool
22	22	Move--Do Ya
29	23	Osmonds--Crazy Horses
23	24	Doobie Brothers--Listen to the Music
28	25	Mouth & MacNeal--Hey, You Love
32	26	Chi Coltrane--Thunder and Lightning
36	27	Tower of Power--Down to the Nightclub
38	28	Al Green--You Ought to Be With Me
21	29	Danny Holien--Colorado
30	30	Billy Lee Riley--I Got a Thing About You Baby
24	31	Alice Cooper--Elected
33	32	Grand Funk Railroad--Rock 'n Roll Soul
40	33	Isley Brothers--Work to Do
---	34	Albert Hammond--It Never Rains in Southern California
31	35	Three Dog Night--Black & White
---	36	Gilbert O'Sullivan--Clair
---	37	Jim Croce--Operator
25	38	Mac Davis--Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me
---	39	Heywoods--Special Someone
27	40	Bill Withers--Use Me

Not much jumping around, especially at the top.

Only four debuts: Albert Hammond’s “It Never Rains in Southern California” (5BB/1KJR), “Clair” by Gilbert O’Sullivan (2/2), Jim Croce’s “Operator” (17/11), and “Special Someone” by the Heywoods, later Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods, (64/24).