| Cover | | Date   | Title • Artist
Album | Points
| Charts Peaks | Comment |
|---|
| 1. | 07/1972 | | 243
 | US ✫1
UK 29
US AC ✫1
US country 26 | |
| 2. | 02/1972 | | 161
| US 5
US country ✫1
US R&B ✫1 | |
| 3. | 09/1972 | | 159
| US 5
US AC 5
US country ✫1 | |
| 4. | 04/1972 | | 158
| US 4
US AC 3
US country 55 | |
| 5. | 07/1972 | | 147
| US 6
UK 41
US AC ✫1
US country 44 | as Rick Nelson & The Stone Canyon Band |
| 6. | 02/1972 | | 146
| US 92
UK 3
US country ✫1 | |
| 7. | 01/1972 | | 131
| US 103
UK 4
US country 2 | as Johnny Cash & The Evangel Temple Choir |
| 8. | 01/1972 | | 116
| US 40
UK 5
US country 68 | written by Buffy Sainte-Marie |
| 9. | 05/1972 | | 105
| US 11
US AC 7
US country ✫1 | |
| 10. | 03/1972 | | 86
| US 9
US country 51 | written by Charlie Ryan, W. S. Stevenson |
| 11. | 09/1972 | | 83
| US 9
US country 63 | |
![Always on My Mind [article]](./wp/cache/img/JMGSong_14361.jpg "Always on My Mind [article]") | 12. | 12/1972 | | 79
| UK 9
US country 16 | US: B-side to Always On My Mind and The Elvis Medley
written by Johnny Christopher, Mark James, Wayne Carson Thompson |
| 13. | 12/1972 | | 72
| US 20
US AC 3
US country 16 | |
| 14. | 12/1972 | | 60
| US 16
US country 66 | as The Blue Ridge Rangers
written by Hank Williams, Moon Mullican (uncredited) |
| 15. | 08/1972 | | 44
| US 38
US country ✫1 | |
| 16. | 01/1972 | | 29
| US 86
US country ✫1 | written by Billy Sherrill, Glenn Sutton
[Epic 10818] |
| 17. | 05/1972 | | 29
| US 75
US country 2 | as Johnny Cash & The Tennessee Three |
| 18. | 01/1972 | | 27
| US 71
US country 3 | written by Churchill Kohlman |
| 19. | 09/1972 | | 26
| US 103
US country ✫1 | written by James Last, Ernst Bader, Larry Kusik, Eddie Snyder
[Columbia 45644] |
| 20. | 08/1972 | | 26
| US 102
US country ✫1 | [RCA Victor 0707] |
| 21. | 05/1972 | | 26
| US 112
US country ✫1 | written by Floyd Cramer, Conway Twitty
[Decca 32945] |
| 22. | 04/1972 | | 26
| US 92
US country 2 | with Henry Mancini |
| 23. | 03/1972 | | 25
| US 48
US country 12 | |
| 24. | 08/1972 | | 24
| US 67
US country 18
US R&B 18 | |
| 25. | 09/1972 | | 24
| US 101
US country 2 | |
| 26. | 04/1972 | | 24
| US 105
US country 2 | [Mercury 73275] |
| 27. | 04/1972 | | 24
| US 109
US country 2 | [Columbia 45583] |
| 28. | 1972 | | 23
| US country ✫1 | |
| 29. | 1972 | | 23
| US country ✫1 | as Merle Haggard & the Strangers
written by Merle Haggard |
| 30. | 1972 | | 23
| US country ✫1 | |
| 31. | 1972 | | 23
| US country ✫1 | |
| 32. | 1972 | | 23
| US country ✫1 | written by Loretta Lynn |
| 33. | 1972 | | 23
| US country ✫1 | |
| 34. | 1972 | | 23
| US country ✫1 | |
| 35. | 1972 | | 23
| US country ✫1 | |
| 36. | 1972 | | 23
| US country ✫1 | as Buck Owens & the Buckaroos |
| 37. | 1972 | | 23
| US country ✫1 | as Merle Haggard & the Strangers
written by Hank Cochran, Glenn Martin |
![I Can't Stop Loving You [article]](./wp/cache/img/JMGSong_112695.jpg "I Can't Stop Loving You [article]") | 38. | 1972 | | 23
| US country ✫1 | written by Don Gibson |
| 39. | 1972 | | 23
| US country ✫1 | |
| 40. | 1972 | | 23
| US country ✫1 | as Merle Haggard & the Strangers
written by Merle Haggard |
