Thanks to Craig M. Smith for these year-end CHUM lists.
1972
| No. | Title | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | American Pie | Don McLean |
| 2 | The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face | Roberta Flack |
| 3 | A Horse With No Name | America |
| 4 | Puppy Love | Donny Osmond
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| 5 | Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast | Wayne Newton |
| 6 | Alone Again | Gilbert O'Sullivan |
| 7 | School's Out | Alice Cooper |
| 8 | Heart Of Gold | Neil Young
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| 9 | Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me | Mac Davis |
| 10 | Amazing Grace | Royal Scots Dragoon Guards |
| 11 | Oh Girl | Chi-Lites |
| 12 | Without You | Nilsson |
| 13 | Black & White | Three Dog Night |
| 14 | Lean On Me | Bill Withers |
| 15 | The Candy Man | Sammy Davis Jr. |
| 16 | Brandy (You're A Fine Girl) | Looking Glass |
| 17 | Sealed With A Kiss | Bobby Vinton |
| 18 | Ben | Michael Jackson |
| 19 | Long Cool Woman With A Black Dress | Hollies |
| 20 | Sunshine | Jonathan Edwards |
| 21 | Saturday In The Park | Chicago |
| 22 | Morning Has Broken | Cat Stevens |
| 23 | Sylvia's Mother | Dr. Hook |
| 24 | Outa-Space | Billy Preston |
| 25 | Ding-A Ling | Chuck Berry |
| 26 | I'd Love You To Want Me | Lobo |
| 27 | Brand New Key | Melanie |
| 28 | Precious & Few | Climax |
| 29 | I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing | New Seekers |
| 30 | Beautiful Sunday | Daniel Boone |
| 31 | Let's Stay Together | Al Green |
| 32 | How Do You Do? | Mouth & McNeil |
| 33 | Song Sung Blue | Neil Diamond |
| 34 | Hot Rod Lincoln | Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen |
| 35 | Popcorn | Hot Butter |
| 36 | Nice To Be With You | Gallery |
| 37 | Taxi | Harry Chapin |
| 38 | Family Of Man | Three Dog Night |
| 39 | Doctor My Eyes | Jackson Browne |
| 40 | Nights In White Satin | Moody Blues |
| 41 | Troglodyte | Jimmy Castor Bunch |
| 42 | I Am Woman | Helen Reddy |
| 43 | Rock & Roll (Pt.2) | Gary Glitter |
| 44 | Garden Party | Rick Nelson |
| 45 | The Lion Sleeps Tonight | Robert John |
| 46 | Rock & Roll Lullaby | B.J. Thomas |
| 47 | One Monkey Don't Stop No Show | Honey Cone |
| 48 | Betcha By Golly Wow | Stylistics |
| 49 | Burning Love | Elvis Presley |
| 50 | Down By The Lazy River | Osmonds |
| 51 | Mother & Child Reunion | Paul Simon |
| 52 | Day After Day | Badfinger |
| 53 | The Way Of Love | Cher |
| 54 | Back Of Boogaloo | Ringo Starr |
| 55 | I Can See Clearly Now | Johnny Nash |
| 56 | Roundabout | Yes |
| 57 | Layla | Derek & The Dominoes |
| 58 | Coconut | Nilsson |
| 59 | Slippin' Into Darkness | War |
| 60 | The Guitar Man | Bread |
| 61 | It's Too Late To Turn Back Now | Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose |
| 62 | Scorpio | Dennis Coffey |
| 63 | Clean Up Woman | Betty Wright |
| 64 | Never Been To Spain | Three Dog Night |
| 65 | We've Got To Get It On Again | Addrisi Brothers |
| 66 | Everybody Plays The Fool | Main Ingredient |
| 67 | Vincent | Don McLean |
| 68 | Bang A Gong | T Rex |
| 69 | Love Me Love Me Love | Frank Mills |
| 70 | You Are Everything | Stylistics |
| 71 | Backstabbers | O'Jays |
| 72 | Don't Say You Don't Remember | Beverly Bremers |
| 73 | Stay With Me | Faces |
| 74 | Hurting Each Other | Carpenters |
| 75 | Lonely Boy | Donny Osmond
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| 76 | Hold Your Head Up | Argent |
| 77 | (Last Night) I Didn't Get To Sleep At All | Fifth Dimension |
| 78 | My World | Bee Gees |
| 79 | Suavecito | Malo |
| 80 | Go All The Way | Raspberries |
| 81 | Conquistador | Procol Harum |
| 82 | Joy | Apollo 100 |
| 83 | Day By Day | Godspell |
| 84 | Cherish | David Cassidy |
| 85 | You Could Have Been A Lady | April Wine
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| 86 | Everything I Own | Bread |
| 87 | Honky Cat | Elton John |
| 88 | Poor Little Fool | Frank Mills |
| 89 | Runnin' Back To Saskatoon | Guess Who
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| 90 | I'll Take You There | Staple Singers |
| 91 | Run To Me | Bee Gees |
| 92 | Goodbye To Love | Carpenters |
| 93 | Walkin' In The Rain With The One I Love | Love Unlimited |
| 94 | Brandy | Scott English |
| 95 | In The Rain | Dramatics |
| 96 | You Don't Mess Around With Jim | Jim Croce |
| 97 | Beautiful | Gordon Lightfoot
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| 98 | Too Young | Donny Osmond |
| 99 | Old Man | Neil Young
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| 100 | Hey Big Brother | Rare Earth |