The songs below are the number 1 songs for each week of 1973. The date below each song is the weekly chart date when the song peaked at number 1. This is the first year that a new number 1 song is featured every week.
| She's Gone Daryl Hall / John Oates |
| I Can't Stand The Rain Ann Peebles |
| The Joker Steve Miller Band |
| Mother Of Pearl Roxy Music |
| Piano Man Billy Joel |
| Band On The Run Paul McCartney & Wings |
| Takin' Care Of Business Bachman-Turner Overdrive |
| Get Up, Stand Up The Wailers |
| Love, Reign O'er Me The Who |
| Midnight Train To Georgia Gladys Knight & The Pips |
| Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting Elton John |
| Candle In The Wind Elton John |
| Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Elton John |
| Bennie & The Jets Elton John |
| Jungle Boogie Kool & The Gang |
| Firth Of Fifth Genesis |
| Rock On David Essex |
| That Lady The Isley Brothers |
| Higher Ground Stevie Wonder |
| Radar Love Golden Earring |
| Angie The Rolling Stones |
| Distant Lover Marvin Gaye |
| Free Bird Lynyrd Skynyrd |
| Personality Crisis New York Dolls |
| La Grange ZZ Top |
| Hymn For The Dudes Mott The Hoople |
| We're An American Band Grand Funk |
| Knockin' On Heaven's Door Bob Dylan |
| If You Want Me To Stay Sly & The Family Stone |
| Rocky Mountain Way Joe Walsh |
| Let's Get It On Marvin Gaye |
| Kodachrome Paul Simon |
| American Tune Paul Simon |
| Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) George Harrison |
| Live & Let Die Wings |
| Here I Am (Come & Take Me) Al Green |
| Jolene Dolly Parton |
| Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?) David Bowie |
| Stir It Up (Rerecorded) The Wailers |
| Desperado Eagles |
| Drift Away Dobie Gray |
| The Ocean Led Zeppelin |
| In Every Dream Home A Heartache Roxy Music |
| Money Pink Floyd |
| The Great Gig In The Sky Pink Floyd |
| Us & Them Pink Floyd |
| Time Pink Floyd |
| No More Mr. Nice Guy Alice Cooper |
| Search & Destroy Iggy & The Stooges |
| She Gram Parsons |
| Dixie Chicken Little Feat |
| Dream On Aerosmith |