Number of Movie Theatre Releases: 463 Average Weekly Attendance: $16,000,000 Number of Movie Theatres: $14,400 Box Office Reciepts: $1,524,000,000 Average Movie Ticket Price: $1.77 Top Earnings, based on figures reported by Variety: 1. "The Poseidon Adventure"- $40,000,000 2. "Deliverance"- $18,000,000 3. "The Getaway"- $17,500,000 4. "Live & Let Die"- $15,000,000 5. "Paper Moon"- $13,000,000
The Academy Awards (presented April 2nd, 1974) Best Picture: The Sting Actor: Jack Lemmon (Save the Tiger) Actress: Glenda Jackson (A Touch of Class) Supporting Actor: John Houseman (Paper Moon) Director: George Roy Hill (The Sting) The Golden Globe Awards Best Picture (Drama): The Exorcist Best Picture (Musical/Comedy): American Graffiti Top Music- January 1973 1) You're So Vain- Carly Simon 2) Clair- Gilbert O' Sullivan 3) Me And Mrs. Jones- Billy Paul 4) Superstition- Stevie Wonder 5) Funny Face- Donna Fargo 6) It Never Rains In Southern California- Albert Hammond 7) Rockin' Pheumonia- Johnny Rivers 8) Your Mama Don't Dance- Kenny Loggins & Jim Messina 9) Superfly- Curtis Mayfield 10) You Ought To Be With Me- Al Green Top Music- February 1973 1) Crocodile Rock- Elton John 2) You're So Vain- Carly Simon 3) Superstition- Stevie Wonder 4) Why Can't We Live Together- Timmy Thomas 5) Your Mama Don't Dance- Kenny Loggins & Jim Messina 6) Oh Babe, What Would You Say?- Hurricane Smith 7) Trouble Man- Marvin Gaye 8) The World Is A Ghetto- War 9) Do It Again- Steely Dan 10) Hi, Hi, Hi- Wings Top Music- March 1973 1) Killing Me Softly With His Song- Roberta Flack 2) Dueling Banjos- Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell 3) Last Song- Edward Bear 4) Could It Be I'm Falling In Love- Spinners 5) Crocodile Rock- Elton John 6) You're So Vain- Carly Simon 7) Love Train- O' Jays 8) Also Spach Zarathursta (2001)- Deodato 9) Rocky Mountain High- John Denver 10) Don't Expect Me To Be Your Friend- Lobo Top Music- April 1973 1) The Nights The Lights Went Out In Georgia- Vicki Lawrence 2) Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye)- Gladys Knight & The Pips 3) Killing Me Softly With His Song- Roberta Flack 4) Ain't No Woman (Like The One I've Got)- Four Tops 5) Break Up To Make Up- The Stylistics 6) Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree- Tony Orlando & Dawn 7) Sing- Carpenters 8) Danny's Song- Anne Murray 9) Also Spach Zarathursta (2001)- Deodato 10) The Cisco Kid- War Top Music- May 1973 1) Tie A Yellow Ribbon Around The Ole Oak Tree- Tony Orlando & Dawn 2) The Cisco Kid- War 3) Little Willy- The Sweet 4) You Are The Sunshine Of My Life- Stevie Wonder 5) The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia- Vicki Lawrence 6) Drift Away- Dobie Grey 7) Stuck In The Middle With You- Stealers Wheel 8) The Twelfth Of Never- Donny Osmond 9) Sing- Carpenters 10) Frankenstein- The Edgar Winter Group
Top Music- June 1973 1) My Love- Paul McCartney & Wings 2) Daniel- Elton John 3) Frankenstein- The Edgar Winter Group 4) Pillow Talk- Sylvia 5) Tie A Yellow Ribbon Around The Ole Oak Tree- Tony Orlando & dawn 6) You Are The Sunshine Of My Life- Stevie Wonder 7) I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby- Barry White 8) Little Willy- The Sweet 9) Hocus Pocus- Focus 10) Playground In My Mind- Clint Holmes Top Music- July 1973 1) Will It Go Round In Circles- Billy Preston 2) Kodachrome- Paul Simon 3) My Love- Paul McCartney & Wings 4) Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)- George Harrison 5) Bad, Bad Leroy Brown- Jim Croce 6) Playground In My Mind- Clint Holmes 7) Shambala- Three Dog Night 8) Yesterday Once More- Carpenters 9) Right Place Wrong Time- Dr. John 10) I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby- Barry White Top Music- August 1973 1) The Morning After- Maureen McGovern 2) Bad, Bad Leroy Brown- Jim Croce 3) Live & Let Die- Wings 4) Smoke On The Water- Deep Purple 5) Yesterday Once More- Carpenters 6) Diamond Girl- Seals & Crofts 7) Touch Me In The Morning- Diana Ross 8) Brother Louie- Stories 9) Will It Go Round In Circles- Billy Preston 10) Shambala- Three Dog Night
Top Music- September 1973 1) Brother Louie- Stories 2) Let's Get It On- Marvin Gaye 3) Delta Dawn- Helen Reddy 4) Touch Me In The Morning- Diana Ross 5) Live & Let Die- Wings 6) Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose- Tony Orlando & Dawn 7) The Morning After- Maureen McGovern 8) Get Down- Gilbert O' Sullivan 9) Loves Me Like A Rock- Paul Simon 10) Feelin' Stronger Every Day- Chicago
Top Music- October 1973 1) Half-Breed- Cher 2) Loves Me Like A Rock- Paul Simon 3) Let's Get It On- Marvin Gaye 4) We're An American Band- Grand Funk 5) Higher Ground- Stevie Wonder 6) That Lady- Isley Brothers 7) Ramblin' Man- The Allman Brothers Band 8) Angie- The Rolling Stones 9) Delta Dawn- Helen Reddy 10) Keep On Truckin'- Eddie Kendricks Top Music- November 1973 1) Midnight Train To Georgia- Gladys Knight & The Pips 2) Angie- The Rolling Stones 3) Keep On Truckin'- Eddie Kendricks 4) Half-Breed- Cher 5) Paper Roses- Marie Osmond 6) Heartbeat- It's A Lovebeat- The DeFranco Family 7) Ramblin Man- The Allman Brothers Band 8) Let's Get It On- Marvin Gaye 9) Space Race- Billy Preston 10) All I Know- Garfunkel
Top Music- December 1973 1) Top Of The World- Carpenters 2) Photograph- Ringo Starr 3) Goodbye Yellow Brick Road- Elton John 4) Space Race- Billy Preston 5) Keep On Truckin'- Eddie Kendricks 6) Yout You 'N' Me- Chicago 7) Midnight Train To Georgia- Gladys Knight & The Pips 8) The Love I Lost- Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes 9) Heartbeat- It's A Lovebeat- The DeFranco Family 10) The Most Beautiful Girl- Charlie Rich |