List of number-one country singles of 1971 (U.S.)

These are the U.S. number-one country songs of 1971, per the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.^[1]

Issue date	Title	Artist
January 2	Rose Garden	Lynn Anderson
January 9
January 16
January 23
January 30	Flesh and Blood	Johnny Cash
February 6	Joshua	Dolly Parton
February 13	Help Me Make It Through the Night	Sammi Smith
February 20
February 27
March 6	I'd Rather Love You	Charley Pride
March 13
March 20
March 27	After the Fire Is Gone	Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn
April 3
April 10	Empty Arms	Sonny James
April 17
April 24
May 1
May 8	How Much More Can She Stand	Conway Twitty
May 15	I Won't Mention It Again	Ray Price
May 22
May 29
June 5	You're My Man	Lynn Anderson
June 12
June 19	When You're Hot, You're Hot	Jerry Reed
June 26
July 3
July 10
July 17
July 24	Bright Lights, Big City	Sonny James
July 31	I'm Just Me	Charley Pride
August 7
August 14
August 21
August 28	Good Lovin' (Makes It Right)	Tammy Wynette
September 4
September 11	Easy Loving	Freddie Hart
September 18	The Year Clayton Delaney Died	Tom T. Hall
September 25
October 2	Easy Loving	Freddie Hart
October 9
October 16	How Can I Unlove You	Lynn Anderson
October 23
October 30
November 6	Here Comes Honey Again	Sonny James
November 13	Lead Me On	Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn
November 20	Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)	Merle Haggard
November 27
December 4	Kiss an Angel Good Mornin'	Charley Pride
December 11
December 18
December 25

See also

• 1971 in music
• List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. country chart

References

1. Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 655. ISBN 0-89820-177-2.