Chart Performance
The song was a number-one hit in the US, Canada and Australia. Bowing at #99 on the Hot 100 on 2 December 1972, the song took only five more weeks to rocket to the top of the Billboard Hot 100, where it stayed the first three weeks of 1973, and also spent two weeks at the top of the Easy Listening chart in early 1973, her first number one on either chart. "You're So Vain" was Simon's breakthrough hit in the United Kingdom, reaching number three on the UK chart on its original release in 1973. The song was re-released in the UK in 1991 to cash in on its inclusion in a commercial for Dunlop Tyres, peaking at number 41.
| Preceded by "Me and Mrs. Jones" by Billy Paul |
US Billboard Hot 100 number-one single January 6, 1973 (three weeks) |
Succeeded by "Superstition" by Stevie Wonder |
| Preceded by "Clair" by Gilbert O'Sullivan |
Canadian RPM number-one single January 27, 1973 (1 week) |
Succeeded by "Last Song" by Edward Bear |
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