All tracks released in January 1972 unless otherwise indicated
* : New entry Record Retailer chart
| NR | Title | Artist/Group | Chart |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bottles | Belle Gonzalez | |
| 2 | Mother of mine (12/71) | Neil Reid | * |
| 3 | The last run | Steve Lawrence | |
| 4 | I am what I am (Battersea Tramp) | Bill & Buster | |
| 5 | Nursery Lane | Christyan | |
| 6 | Turned 21 | Fludd | |
| 7 | Colour all the world | Design | |
| 8 | Face on the wind | Keith Mansfield orchestra and chorus | |
| 9 | I'd like to teach the world to sing (12/71) | New Seekers | # 1 |
| 10 | When I meet them | Seals & Crofts | |
| 11 | Changes | David Bowie | |
| 12 | Take off | Kentucky freeway | |
| 13 | Telegram Sam | T. Rex | * |
| 14 | Dear John | Nazareth | |
| 15 | American pie (part 1) | Don McLean | * |
| 16 | California Kid and Reemo | Lobo | |
| 17 | White line fever | Flying Burrito brothers | |
| 18 | Puckwudgie (10/71) | Charlie Drake | * |
| 19 | Brief encounter | Steve 'n' Bonnie | |
| 20 | Mr. Sunlight | Edward & Harding | |
| 21 | I'm a song (sing me) | Neil Sedaka | |
| 22 | I don't know how to love him (11/71) | Petula Clark | * |
| 23 | In the morning (morning of my life) | Paper lace | |
| 24 | Nowhere to go | Graham Gouldman | |
| 25 | No sad song | Helen Reddy | |
| 26 | Girl, I've got news for you | Cherokee | |
| 27 | Son of my father | Giorgio | |
| 28 | Storm in a teacup | Fortunes | * |
| 29 | Daisy Mae | Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds | |
| 30 | All I ever need is you (11/71) | Sonny & Cher | * |
| 31 | Merry Xmas darling (12/71) | Carpenters | * |
| 32 | Morning has broken | Cat Stevens | * |
| 33 | What the world needs now is love | Tom Clay | |
| 34 | Some people | Living force | |
| 35 | Devil you | Stampeders | |
| 36 | America's Great National Pastime | Byrds | |
| 37 | The loner | Bloomfields (Maurice Gibb) | |
| 38 | Bend me shape me | Henry Shed | |
| 39 | I feel a song in my heart | Sandra Richardson | |
| 40 | Drowning in the sea of love | Joe Simon | |
| 41 | Let's stay together (12/71) | Al Green | * |
| 42 | Love me love the life I lead | Fantastics | |
| 43 | Family affair (12/71) | Sly & Family stone | * |
| 44 | If you really love me | Stevie Wonder | * |
| 45 | Monkey Tamarind | Beginning of the end | |
| 46 | Need your loving | Flirtations | |
| 47 | Superstar (RR – 1969) (11/71) | Murray Head & Trinidad singers | * |
| 48 | The joker | Garden odyssey | |
| 49 | People in motion | Saft | |
| 50 | Hey big brother | Rare earth | |
| 51 | Tightrope ride | Doors | |
| 52 | Brand new key (12/71) | Melanie | * |
| 53 | Can't let you go (11/71) | Barry Ryan | * |
| 54 | Day after day | Badfinger | * |
| 55 | The pie | Sutherland brothers band | |
| 56 | Loves minus zero / No limit | Rick Nelson & Stone Canyon band | |
| 57 | One tin soldier | Coven | |
| 58 | Joy | Apollo 100 | |
| 59 | Have you seen her (12/71) | Chi-lites | * |
| 60 | You are everything | Stylistics | |
| 61 | Baby I'm a want you (11/71) | Bread | * |
| 62 | Diamonds are forever (11/71) | Shirley Bassey | * |
| 63 | If we're free | Sol Raye | |
| 64 | For my love | Stuart Gillies | |
| 65 | I don't know how to love him (11/71) | Yvonne Elliman | * |
| 66 | Maggie May | Simtec & Wylie | |
| 67 | Can I get a witness | Lee Michaels | |
| 68 | I want to go back there again | Thelma Houston | |
| 69 | Bless you (11/71) | Martha Reeves & Vandellas | * |
| 70 | Can we get to that | Peter Vee | |
| 71 | Scorpio | Dennis Coffey & Detroit Guitar band | |
| 72 | Moon river (12/71) | Greyhound | * |
| 73 | Suzanne | Montanas | |
| 74 | My world | Bee Gees | * |
| 75 | Count me in (UK single edit) | Blue mink | |
| 76 | She is the female to my soul | Honeybus | |
| 77 | I can't stop | White plains | |
| 78 | Oklahoma Sunday morning | Glen Campbell | |
| 79 | English rose | Jimmy Justice | |
| 80 | Ernie (the fastest milkman in the west) (10/71) | Benny Hill | # 1 |
| 81 | Used to be | Just us | |
| 82 | White lies, blue eyes | Bullet | |
| 83 | I'm coming home | Tommy James | |
| 84 | Son of my father | Chicory tip | * |
| 85 | Give and take (12/71) | Pioneers | * |
| 86 | Calling for your love | Enticers | |
| 87 | Where did our love go (12/71) | Donnie Elbert | * |
| 88 | Music for gong gong | Osibisa |