This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Best Selling Soul Singles of 1972. The chart is on page 22 of the PDF.
No. Title Artist(s)1 "Let's Stay Together" Al Green2 "I'll Take You There" The Staple Singers3 "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right" Luther Ingram4 "In the Rain" The Dramatics5 "Oh Girl" The Chi-Lites6 "Back Stabbers" The O'Jays7 "That's the Way I Feel About Cha" Bobby Womack8 "Everybody Plays the Fool" The Main Ingredient9 "Do the Funky Penguin" Rufus Thomas10 "I Gotcha" Joe Tex11 "You Said a Bad Word"12 "Clean Up Woman" Betty Wright13 "Lean on Me" Bill Withers14 "Outa-Space" Billy Preston15 "Get on the Good Foot" James Brown16 "Woman's Gotta Have It" Bobby Womack17 "Day Dreaming" Aretha Franklin18 "Power of Love" Joe Simon19 "Look What You Done for Me" Al Green20 "Freddie's Dead" Curtis Mayfield21 "Think (About It)" Lyn Collins22 "Drowning in the Sea of Love" Joe Simon23 "Sugar Daddy" The Jackson 524 "I'm Still in Love with You" Al Green25 "Ain't Understanding Mellow" Jerry Butler and Brenda Lee Eager26 "Ask Me What You Want" Millie Jackson27 "Pop That Thang" The Isley Brothers28 "Family Affair" Sly and the Family Stone29 "Use Me" Bill Withers30 "Ben" Michael Jackson31 "Betcha by Golly, Wow" The Stylistics32 "Fire and Water" Wilson Pickett33 "You Want It, You Got It" The Detroit Emeralds34 "I'll Be Around" The Spinners35 "Where Is the Love" Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway36 "Woman Don't Go Astray" King Floyd37 "I Wanna Be Where You Are" Michael Jackson38 "Baby Let Me Take You (In My Arms)" The Detroit Emeralds39 "Close to You" Jerry Butler40 "Now Run and Tell That" Denise LaSalle41 "Hearsay" The Soul Children42 "Make Me the Woman That You Go Home To" Gladys Knight & the Pips43 "My Man, a Sweet Man" Millie Jackson44 "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" Roberta Flack45 "You Are Everything" The Stylistics46 "One Monkey Don't Stop No Show" Honey Cone47 "Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing" James Brown48 "Rip Off" Laura Lee49 "I Miss You" Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes50 "I've Been Lonely for So Long" Frederick Knight
See also 1972 in music Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1972 List of Best Selling Soul Singles number ones of 1972
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