List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 1972

These are the Billboard magazine number-one albums of 1972, per the Billboard 200.

Issue date	Album	Artist(s)	Label	Ref.
January 1	Music	Carole King	Ode 70	^[1]
January 8				^[2]
January 15				^[3]
January 22	American Pie	Don McLean	United Artists	^[4]
January 29				^[5]
February 5				^[6]
February 12				^[7]
February 19				^[8]
February 26				^[9]
March 4				^[10]
March 11	Harvest †	Neil Young	Reprise	^[11]
March 18	Harvest †	Neil Young	Reprise	^[12]
March 25	America	America	Warner Bros.	^[13]
April 1				^[14]
April 8				^[15]
April 15				^[16]
April 22				^[17]
April 29	First Take	Roberta Flack	Atlantic	^[18]
May 6				^[19]
May 13				^[20]
May 20				^[21]
May 27				^[22]
June 3	Thick as a Brick	Jethro Tull	Reprise	^[23]
June 10	Thick as a Brick	Jethro Tull	Reprise	^[24]
June 17	Exile on Main St.	The Rolling Stones	Rolling Stones	^[25]
June 24				^[26]
July 1				^[27]
July 8				^[28]
July 15	Honky Château	Elton John	Uni	^[29]
July 22				^[30]
July 29				^[31]
August 5				^[32]
August 12				^[33]
August 19	Chicago V	Chicago	Columbia	^[34]
August 26				^[35]
September 2				^[36]
September 9				^[37]
September 16				^[38]
September 23				^[39]
September 30				^[40]
October 7				^[41]
October 14				^[42]
October 21	Super Fly	Curtis Mayfield / Soundtrack	Curtom	^[43]
October 28				^[44]
November 4				^[45]
November 11				^[46]
November 18	Catch Bull at Four	Cat Stevens	A&M	^[47]
November 25				^[48]
December 2				^[49]
December 9	Seventh Sojourn	The Moody Blues	Threshold	^[50]
December 16				^[51]
December 23				^[52]
December 30				^[53]

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