This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Best Selling Soul Singles of 1971. The chart is on page 41 of the PDF.
No. Title Artist(s)1 "Mr. Big Stuff" Jean Knight2 "What's Going On" Marvin Gaye3 "Want Ads" Honey Cone4 "Tired of Being Alone" Al Green5 "Spanish Harlem" Aretha Franklin6 "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)" The Temptations7 "Bridge over Troubled Water" Aretha Franklin8 "Thin Line Between Love and Hate" The Persuaders9 "Never Can Say Goodbye" The Jackson 510 "Make It Funky" James Brown11 "Groove Me" King Floyd12 "Trapped by a Thing Called Love" Denise LaSalle13 "Don't Knock My Love" Wilson Pickett14 "Stick-Up" Honey Cone15 "(Do the) Push and Pull" Rufus Thomas16 "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" Marvin Gaye17 "Smiling Faces Sometimes" The Undisputed Truth18 "She's Not Just Another Woman" 8th Day19 "Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get" The Dramatics20 "The Love We Had (Stays on My Mind)" The Dells21 "Ain't No Sunshine" Bill Withers22 "Don't Let the Green Grass Fool You" Wilson Pickett23 "Love the One You're With" The Isley Brothers24 "Hot Pants" James Brown25 "I Don't Want to Do Wrong" Gladys Knight & the Pips26 "The Breakdown (Part 1)" Rufus Thomas27 "We Can Work It Out" Stevie Wonder28 "If You Really Love Me" 29 "If I Were Your Woman" Gladys Knight & the Pips30 "Women's Love Rights" Laura Lee31 "Mama's Pearl" The Jackson 532 "Jody's Got Your Girl and Gone" Johnnie Taylor33 "You're a Big Girl Now" The Stylistics34 "(For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People" The Chi-Lites35 "Your Time to Cry" Joe Simon36 "Soul Power" King Floyd37 "She's All I Got" Freddie North38 "You've Got a Friend" Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway39 "You've Got to Crawl (Before You Walk)" 8th Day40 "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)" Marvin Gaye41 "Do Me Right" The Detroit Emeralds42 "Heavy Makes You Happy" The Staple Singers43 "Funky Nassau" The Beginning of the End44 "I Know I'm In Love" Chee-Chee and Peppy45 "Right on the Tip of My Tongue" Brenda & the Tabulations46 "Spinning Around (I Must Be Falling in Love)" The Main Ingredient47 "I Likes to Do It" People's Choice48 "One Bad Apple" The Osmonds49 "Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)" The Stylistics50 "Precious, Precious" Jackie Moore
See also 1971 in music Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1971 List of Best Selling Soul Singles number ones of 1971
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