From phone reporting to point-of-sale tracking to Luminate’s current data system, Billboard has published year-end music roundups for 80 years. Since 1943, a hit parade of swinging jazz tracks, ...

These No. 1 hit tracks from 1972 knocked other big tunes from the top spot that year, and I bet they're some of your favorites.

Harvest topped Billboard’s year-end chart for the album with the most sales in the U.S. for 1972. The album ended the seven-week run of Don McLean’s American Pie at the top of the Billboard 200, and ...