December 22, 1972

2	1	Carly Simon--You're So Vain
1	2	Billy Paul--Me and Mrs. Jones
5	3	Johnny Rivers--Rockin' Pneumonia - Boogie Woogie Flu
4	4	Donna Fargo--Funny Face
16	5	Clean Living--In Heaven There is No Beer
3	6	Gilbert O'Sullivan--Clair
17	7	Timmy Thomas--Why Can't We Live Together
9	8	Steely Dan--Do it Again
10	9	Blue Haze--Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
7	10	Raspberries--I Wanna Be With You
21	11	Elton John--Crocodile Rock
12	12	Stylistics--I'm Stone in Love With You
8	13	Albert Hammond--It Never Rains in Southern California
6	14	Harold Melvin & the Bluenotes--If You Don't Know Me By Now
14	15	Neil Diamond--Walk on Water
20	16	Hurricane Smith--Oh, Babe, What Would You Say?
23	17	Loggins & Messina--Your Mama Don't Dance
24	18	Curtis Mayfield--Superfly
15	19	Four Tops--Keeper of the Castle
31	20	Jethro Tull--Living in the Past
26	21	Blue Ridge Rangers--Jambalaya
11	22	Three Dog Night--Pieces of April
30	23	Paul McCartney--Hi, Hi, Hi
38	24	Stevie Wonder--Superstition
28	25	James Taylor--Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight
13	26	Michael Jackson--Ben
32	27	Engelbert Humperdinck--I Never Said Goodbye
18	28	Tower of Power--Down to the Nightclub
19	29	Cat Stevens--Sitting
36	30	Holland-Dozier Featuring Lamont Dozier--Why Can't We Be Lovers
---	31	Edward Bear--Last Song
33	32	O'Jays--992 Arguments
---	33	Paul Davis--Boogie Woogie Man
---	34	John Denver--Rocky Mountain High
22	35	Foghat--I Just Want to Make Love to You
29	36	Lobo--I'd Love You to Want Me
---	37	Rita Coolidge--My Crew
40	38	Fragile Lime--She Got Me Shakin'
27	39	Bread--Sweet Surrender
---	40	Bette Midler--Do You Want to Dance?

Each of the week’s debuts peaked at exactly or almost exactly the same spot in Billboard as it will here, with two exceptions. “Boogie Woogie Man” by Paul Davis only reached number 68 nationally but we’ll see it get to number 5 on the survey. And Rita Coolidge’s “My Crew” was the b-side of her version of “Fever,” a number 76 BB hit; “My Crew” was listed along with “Fever” for two of the record’s seven weeks on the Hot 100 chart, a double-sided hit. KJR preferred “My Crew,” and it’ll peak here at number 31.