According to RPM Magazine, the biggest song of 1971 in Canada was “Joy to the World” by Three Dog Night. It was written by Hoyt Axton. The top song by a Canadian was “Sweet City Woman” by The Stampeders at 2nd of the year. Eighteen songs from the year-end top 100 chart below involve Canadian artists who have been bolded in red. The Canadian charts are an accurate reflection of Canadian tastes in music, and the Top 100 songs were determined both from radio airplay and nationwide sales data. The drawback with year-end charts is that songs charting from the end of one year through beginning of the next will have their chart performance split between the two years. More year-end and other Canadian charts can be found here.
RANK | TITLE | ARTIST |
1 | Joy to the World | Three Dog Night |
2 | Sweet City Woman | Stampeders |
3 | Brown Sugar | Rolling Stones |
4 | Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves | Cher |
5 | It’s Too Late | Carole King |
6 | Go Away Little Girl | Donny Osmond |
7 | My Sweet Lord | George Harrison |
8 | Stay Awhile | The Bells |
9 | It Don’t Come Easy | Ringo Starr |
10 | Yo Yo | Osmonds |
11 | Knock Three Times | Dawn |
12 | How Can You Mend… | The Bee Gees |
13 | Have You Seen the Rain | Creedence Clearwater Revival |
14 | Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey | Paul & Linda McCartney |
15 | Imagine | John Lennon |
16 | Family Affair | Sly & The Family Stone |
17 | If You Could Read My Mind | Gordon Lightfoot |
18 | Rose Garden | Lynn Anderson |
19 | Maggie May | Rod Stewart |
20 | One Bad Apple | The Osmonds |
21 | Don’t Pull Your Love On Me | Hamilton Joe Frank & Reynolds |
22 | Sweet Hitch Hiker | Creedence Clearwater Revival |
23 | Doesn’t Somebody Want… | The Partridge Family |
24 | Lonely Days | The Bee Gees |
25 | She’s a Lady | Tom Jones |
26 | Theme From Shaft | Isaac Hayes |
27 | Indian Reservation | The Raiders |
28 | An Old Fashioned Love Song | Three Dog Night |
29 | I Am…I Said | Neil Diamond |
30 | One Fine Morning | Lighthouse |
31 | Carry Me | The Stampeders |
32 | Draggin’ the Line | Tommy James |
33 | You’ve Got a Friend | James Taylor |
34 | Two Divided by Love | Grass Roots |
35 | Amos Moses | Jerry Reed |
36 | Mr. Bojangles | Nitty Gritty Dirt Band |
37 | Does Anybody Really Know… | Chicago |
38 | Got to Be There | Michael Jackson |
39 | The Night They Drove… | Joan Baez |
40 | Take Me Home Country Road | John Denver |
41 | What Is Life | George Harrison |
42 | Rainy Days and Mondays | The Carpenters |
43 | Sweet and Innocent | Donny Osmond |
44 | Love Her Madly | The Doors |
45 | Chick a Boom | Daddy Dew Drop |
46 | I Hear You Knocking | Dave Edmunds |
47 | Rain Dance | The Guess Who |
48 | Peace Train | Cat Stevens |
49 | Absolutely Right | 5 Man Electrical Band |
50 | Everybody’s Everything | Santana |
51 | Jodie | Joey Gregorash |
52 | Superstar | The Carpenters |
53 | Beginnings | Chicago |
54 | I Woke Up In Love This Morning | Partridge Family |
55 | Signs | 5 Man Electrical Band |
56 | Desiderata | Les Crane |
57 | Baby I Want You | Bread |
58 | Another Day | Paul McCartney |
59 | Woodstock | Matthew’s Southern Comfort |
60 | Theme From Love Story | Andy Williams |
61 | I’ll Meet You Halfway | Partridge Family |
62 | When You’re Hot You’re Hot | Jerry Reed |
63 | Hang On To Your Life | The Guess Who |
64 | Help Me Make It Through… | Sammi Smith |
65 | Stoney End | Barbra Streisand |
66 | Put Your Hand in the Hand | Ocean |
67 | Sing High Sing Low | Anne Murray |
68 | Riders on the Storm | The Doors |
69 | For All We Know | The Carpenters |
70 | One Toke Over the Line | Brewer & Shipley |
71 | Power to the People | John Lennon |
72 | Spanish Harlem | Aretha Franklin |
73 | Liar | Three Dog Night |
74 | Black Magic Woman | Santana |
75 | Your Song | Elton John |
76 | Oye Como Va | Santana |
77 | Where Evil Grows | The Poppy Family |
78 | Do You Know What I Mean | Lee Michaels |
79 | Me and Bobby McGee | Janis Joplin |
80 | Be My Baby | Andy Kim |
81 | Never Ending Song of Love | Delaney & Bonnie |
82 | If | Bread |
83 | Brand New Key | Malanie |
84 | Watching Scotty Grow | Bobby Goldsboro |
85 | Love The One You’re With | Stephen Stills |
86 | Do the Fuddle Duddle | House of Commons |
87 | Eighteen | Alice Cooper |
88 | Hats Off | Lighthouse |
89 | Bridge Over Troubled Water | Aretha Franklin |
90 | It Takes Time | Anne Murray |
91 | Here Comes the Sun | Richie Havens |
92 | Immigrant Song | Led Zeppelin |
93 | Mama’s Pearl | Jackson 5 |
94 | Mr. Big Stuff | Jean Knight |
95 | Double Lovin’ | The Osmonds |
96 | Tillicum | Syrinx |
97 | Want Ads | The Honey Cone |
98 | Me and You and a Dog… | Lobo |
99 | I Don’t Know How to Love Him | Helen Reddy |
100 | Superstar | Murray Head |
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