| | Pop | R&B | Date | Label | Artist | Song | Composer |
|---|
| | 6 | 1 | May-1971 | Atlantic | Aretha Franklin | Bridge Over Troubled Water | Paul Simon |
| | 9 | 2 | Nov-1971 | Atlantic | Aretha Franklin | Rocksteady | Aretha Franklin |
| | 2 | 1 | Aug-1971 | Atlantic | Aretha Franklin | Spanish Harlem | Leiber-Spector |
| | 2 | 1 | May-1971 | United Art | Cornelius Bros & Sister Rose | Treat Her Like a Lady | E. Cornelius |
| | 115 | 32 | Oct-1971 | Curtom | Curtis Mayfield | We Got To Have Peace | Curtis Mayfield |
| | 69 | 13 | Oct-1971 | Curtom | Curtis Mayfield | Get Down | Curtis Mayfield |
| | 13 | 1 | Oct-1971 | Westbound | Denise LaSalle | Trapped By a Thing Called Love | D. LaSalle |
| | 12 | 3 | Jun-1971 | Invictus | Freda Payne | Bring The Boys Home | Holland-Dozier-Holland |
| | 17 | 2 | May-1971 | Motown | Gladys Knight & The Pips | I Don't Want To Do Wrong | Bristol-Knight-Guest-Knight-Schaffner |
| | 4 | 5 | Feb-1971 | Liberty | Ike & Tina Turner | Proud Mary | J Fogerty |
| | 1 | 1 | Oct-1971 | Enterpise | Isaac Hayes | Theme from Shaft | Isaac Hayes |
| | 34 | 4 | Jan-1971 | King | James Brown | Get Up, Get into It, Get Involved | Brown-Byrd-Lenhoff |
| | 15 | 1 | Jul-1971 | People | James Brown | Hot Pants | James Brown-Fred Wesley |
| | 22 | 1 | Sep-1971 | Polydor | James Brown | Make it Funky | James Brown-Charles Bobbit |
| | 35 | 7 | Dec-1971 | Polydor | James Brown | I'm a Greedy Man | James Brown-Charles Bobbit |
| | 25 | 6 | Jun-1971 | People | James Brown | Escapism | James Brown |
| | 29 | 3 | Mar-1971 | King | James Brown | Soul Power | James Brown |
| | 2 | 1 | Jul-1971 | Stax | Jean Knight | Mr. Big Stuff | Broussard, Washington, Williams |
| | 11 | 3 | Nov-1971 | Philly Int'l | Joe Simon | Drowning In The Sea of Love | Gamble-Huff |
| | 28 | 1 | Feb-1971 | Stax | Johnnie Taylor | Jody's Got Your Girl and Gone | Baker, Wilson, Davis |
| | 6 | 1 | Jan-1971 | Chimneyville | King Floyd | Groove Me | King Floyd |
| | 2 | 1 | Jan-1971 | Motown/Tamla | Marvin Gaye | What's Going On | Gaye-Clevelans-Benson |
| | 9 | 1 | Nov-1971 | Motown | Marvin Gaye | Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) | Marvin Gaye |
| | 4 | 1 | Jun-1971 | Motown/Tamla | Marvin Gaye | Mercy Mercy Me | Marvin Gaye |
| | 4 | 4 | Nov-1971 | Motown | Michael Jackson | Got To Be There | Willensky |
| | 7 | 30 | Jun-1971 | Motown/RareEarth | Rare Earth | I Just Want To Celebrate | Rzesses-Fekaris |
| | 25 | 1 | Feb-1971 | Stax | Rufus Thomas | (Do The) Push and Pull | Rufus Thomas |
| | 1 | 1 | Nov-1971 | Epic | Sly & The Family Stone | Family Affair | S. Stewart |
| | 26 | 7 | Apr-1971 | Motown | Stevie Wonder | Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer | Wonder-Wright |
| | 3 | 1 | Nov-1971 | Brunswick | The Chi-Lites | Have You Seen Her | Acklin/Record |
| | 58 | 9 | Jun-1971 | Philly Groove | The Delfonics | Over and Over | Thom Bell/William Hart |
| | 9 | 3 | Jul-1971 | Volt | The Dramatics | Whatcha See is Whacha Get | Tony Hester |
| | 51 | 10 | May-1971 | Philly Int'l | The Ebonys | You're The Reason Why | Gamble-Huff |
| | 1 | 1 | May-1971 | Hot Wax | The Honey Cone | Want Ads | Holland-Dozier-Holland |
| | 11 | 1 | Sep-1971 | Hot Wax | The Honey Cone | Stick Up | Holland-Dozier-Holland |
| | 2 | 1 | Mar-1971 | Motown | The Jackson 5 | Never Can Say Goodbye | Clifton Davis |
| | 15 | 1 | Oct-1971 | Atco | The Persuaders | Thin Line Between Love & Hate | Members-Poindexter-Poindexter |
| | 16 | 8 | Apr-1971 | Motown | The Supremes | Nathan Jones | Wakefield-Caston |
| | 7 | 10 | Oct-1971 | Avco | The Sylistics | You are Everything | Thom Bell/Linda Creed |
| | 73 | 7 | Jan-1971 | Avco | The Sylistics | You're A Big Girl Now | Burt Bacharach/Hal David |
| | 39 | 6 | May-1971 | Avco | The Sylistics | Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart) | Thom Bell/Linda Creed |
| | 1 | 1 | Jan-1971 | Motown/Tamla | The Temptations | Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) | Whitfield-Strong |
| | 3 | 2 | May-1971 | Motown/Gordy | The Undisputed Truth | Smiling Faces Sometimes | Whitfield-Strong |
| | 13 | 1 | Jun-1971 | Atlantic | Wilson Pickett | Don't Knock My Love | Pickett-Shapiro |
| | 17 | 2 | Jan-1971 | Philly Int'l | Wilson Pickett | Don't Let The Green Grass Fool You | Aikenes-Bellman-Drayton-Turner |
