• It’s the same old song – Four Tops
• Heatwave – Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
• Please Mr. Postman – The Marvelettes
• Operator – Mary Wells
• Take this heart of mine – Marvin Gaye
• Standing in the shadows of love – The Jackson Five

Cashbox R&B Top 60 – 2 december 1972

• 59 It’s too late – Rueben Bell
• 58 Fool’s paradise – The Sylvers
• 49 Reelin’ & Rockin’ – Chuck Berry
• 47 Trouble in my home – Joe Simon
• 44 The world is a ghetto – War
• 41 I’ll be your shelter – Luther Ingram
• 3 You ought to be with me – Al Green
• 1 Papa was a rolling stone – The Temptations