Top 100 songs for October 9, 1971
This weekly snapshot follows the songs and artists competing across the Billboard Hot 100. Open any entry for its full chart history, or explore 1971 and the 1970s.
This week’s No. 1 is “Maggie May/Reason To Believe” by Rod Stewart. Meanwhile, “What Are You Doing Sunday” by Dawn Featuring Tony Orlando rises from No. 89 to No. 51. 15 songs are listed in their first chart week.
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This week’s chart highlights
Biggest climbers
- What Are You Doing Sunday — Dawn Featuring Tony Orlandoup 38 places, No. 89 → No. 51
- Long Ago And Far Away — James Taylorup 32 places, No. 90 → No. 58
- I'd Love To Change The World — Ten Years Afterup 23 places, No. 86 → No. 63
New to this week’s Top 10
- If You Really Love Me — Stevie WonderNo. 9
- Sweet City Woman — StampedersNo. 10
New to this week’s Top 40
- Peace Train — Cat StevensNo. 34
- One Fine Morning — LighthouseNo. 36
- Only You Know And I Know — Delaney & BonnieNo. 40
First-week entries
- Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) — Marvin GayeNo. 62
- Questions 67 And 68/I'm A Man — ChicagoNo. 66
- Love — The LettermenNo. 73
- Two Divided By Love — The Grass RootsNo. 79
- It's Impossible — The New BirthNo. 81
- Wild Night — Van MorrisonNo. 83
- Desiderata — Les CraneNo. 87
- Midnight Man — James GangNo. 89
- It's Only Love — Elvis PresleyNo. 90
- Mammy Blue — Pop-TopsNo. 92
- Walk Easy My Son — Jerry ButlerNo. 94
- I'm So Glad — The FuzzNo. 95
- Touch — The SupremesNo. 97
- Olena — Don NixNo. 98
- Baby, I'm Yours — Jody MillerNo. 100
First-week entries have one recorded chart week. Climbs and Top 10/Top 40 arrivals use recorded previous positions for consecutive chart weeks; returning songs without a previous position are not classified as debuts.
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