This is a list of the Canadian RPM magazine number one Top Singles of 1972.
identifies Canadian musical acts.
| Volume:Issue | Issue Date(s) | Weeks on Top | Song | Artist |
| 16:18-20 | 18 December 1971 - 1 January 1972 | 3 | "Family Affair" | Sly & the Family Stone |
| 16:21-22 | 8 January - 15 January | 2 | "Brand New Key" | Melanie |
| 16:23-26, 17:1 | 22 January - 19 February | 5 | "American Pie" | Don McLean |
| 17:2-3 | 26 February - 4 March | 2 | "Love Me Love Me Love" | Frank Mills |
| 17:4 | 11 March | 1 | "Without You" | Nilsson |
| 17:5-6 | 18 March - 25 March | 2 | "Down By the Lazy River" | The Osmonds |
| 17:7 | 1 April | 1 | "Cotton Jenny" | Anne Murray |
| 17:8 | 8 April | 1 | "Heart of Gold" | Neil Young |
| 17:9-11 | 15 April - 29 April | 3 | "Puppy Love" | Donny Osmond |
| 17:12 | 6 May | 1 | "A Horse with No Name" | America |
| 17:13 | 13 May | 1 | "Heart of Gold" (re-entry) | Neil Young |
| 17:14-16 | 20 May - 3 June | 3 | "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" | Roberta Flack |
| 17:17-19 | 10 June - 24 June | 3 | "Amazing Grace" | Royal Scots Dragoon Guards |
| 17:20-21 | 1 July - 8 July | 2 | "Nice to be with You" | Gallery |
| 17:22-23 | 15 July - 22 July | 2 | "Troglodyte" | Jimmy Castor |
| 17:24-25 | 29 July - 5 August | 2 | "Too Late to Turn Back Now" | Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose |
| 17:26 | 12 August | 1 | "Daddy, Don't You Walk So Fast" | Wayne Newton |
| 18:1-3 | 19 August - 2 September | 3 | "Alone Again (Naturally)" | Gilbert O'Sullivan |
| 18:4 | 9 September | 1 | "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" | Looking Glass |
| 18:5-6 | 16 September - 23 September | 2 | "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" | The Hollies |
| 18:7-9 | 30 September - 14 October | 3 | "Black and White" | Three Dog Night |
| 18:10-12 | 21 October - 4 November | 3 | "My Ding-a-Ling" | Chuck Berry |
| 18:13 | 11 November | 1 | "Nights in White Satin" | The Moody Blues |
| 18:14 | 18 November | 1 | "Garden Party" | Rick Nelson |
| 18:15-16 | 25 November - 2 December | 2 | "I Can See Clearly Now" | Johnny Nash |
| 18:17 | 9 December | 1 | "I'd Love You to Want Me" | Lobo |
| 18:18-20 | 16 December - 30 December | 3 | "I Am Woman" | Helen Reddy |
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