Billboard Decade End Chart: Billboard 200 (1970s)

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#	Year	Title	Artist	Type	Rating	Releases
1	1971	Tapestry	Carole King	Album	3.8	181
2	1977	Rumours	Fleetwood Mac	Album	4.15	73
3	1976	Frampton Comes Alive!	Peter Frampton	Album + Live	3.6	27
4	1973	The Dark Side of the Moon	Pink Floyd	Album	4.75	129
5	1973	Goodbye Yellow Brick Road	Elton John	Album	3.95	58
6	1977	Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track	Various Artists	Album + Soundtrack	4.5	31
7	—	Jesus Christ Superstar (1972 original London cast)	Andrew Lloyd Webber	Album + Soundtrack		1
8	1979	Breakfast in America	Supertramp	Album	4.45	47
9	1973	John Denver’s Greatest Hits	John Denver	Album + Compilation	4.35	19
10	1975	Fleetwood Mac (The White Album)	Fleetwood Mac	Album	4.1	40
11	1970	Chicago (II)	Chicago	Album	4.75	19
12	1970	Abraxas	Santana	Album	4.55	34
13	1976	Songs in the Key of Life	Stevie Wonder	Album	4.35	34
14	1973	Band on the Run	Paul McCartney & Wings	Album	3.9	48
15	1978	Grease: The Original Soundtrack From the Motion Picture (1978 film cast)	Various Artists	Album + Soundtrack	2.85	28
16	1975	Red Octopus	Jefferson Starship	Album	4.5	12
17	1971	American Pie	Don McLean	Album	3.5	23
18	1972	Honky Château	Elton John	Album	4.2	23
19	1975	One of These Nights	Eagles	Album	4.45	24
20	1970	Woodstock: Music From the Original Soundtrack and More	Various Artists	Album + Soundtrack + Live	5	14
21	1975	That’s the Way of the World	Earth, Wind & Fire	Album + Soundtrack	3.35	15
22	1972	Chicago V	Chicago	Album	5	14
23	1975	Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy	Elton John	Album	3.85	30
24	1972	You Don’t Mess Around With Jim	Jim Croce	Album	3.95	10
25	1972	Harvest	Neil Young	Album	4.35	29
26	1978	52nd Street	Billy Joel	Album	4.65	50
27	1973	Houses of the Holy	Led Zeppelin	Album	4.45	47
28	1969	First Take	Roberta Flack	Album	2.65	10
29	1974	Back Home Again	John Denver	Album		10
30	1969	Led Zeppelin II	Led Zeppelin	Album	4.5	61
31	1970	Bridge Over Troubled Water	Simon and Garfunkel	Album	4.15	44
32	1970	Cosmo’s Factory	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Album	4.4	33
33	1972	The World Is a Ghetto	War	Album	3	10
34	1971	[Led Zeppelin IV]	Led Zeppelin	Album	4.8	81
35	1971	Music	Carole King	Album	4	51
36	1973	Brothers and Sisters	The Allman Brothers Band	Album	4.15	31
37	1978	Minute by Minute	The Doobie Brothers	Album	3.5	13
38	1970	Déjà vu	Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	Album	4	27
39	1979	Spirits Having Flown	Bee Gees	Album	5	14
40	1972	No Secrets	Carly Simon	Album	4	58
41	1971	America	America	Album	3.5	13
42	1976	Hotel California	Eagles	Album	4.3	64
43	1979	Bad Girls	Donna Summer	Album	4.6	17
44	1969	Abbey Road	The Beatles	Album	4.55	64
45	1977	The Stranger	Billy Joel	Album	4.15	47
46	1976	Boston	Boston	Album	4.15	39
47	1978	Double Vision	Foreigner	Album	3.4	14
48	1972	Superfly	Curtis Mayfield	Album + Soundtrack	4.25	22
49	1972	Seventh Sojourn	The Moody Blues	Album	4.25	17
50	1972	Catch Bull at Four	Cat Stevens	Album	3.5	20
51	1969	Rhymes & Reasons	John Denver	Album		5
52	1976	Fly Like an Eagle	Steve Miller Band	Album	4.65	21
53	1973	Innervisions	Stevie Wonder	Album	4.65	35
54	1974	Greatest Hits	Elton John	Album + Compilation	3.5	22
55	1971	Fragile	Yes	Album	4.5	53
56	1979	Get the Knack	The Knack	Album	3.35	15
57	1972	Never a Dull Moment	Rod Stewart	Album		10
58	1973	Chicago VI	Chicago	Album	3	12
59	1972	Big Bambú	Cheech & Chong	Album	5	4
60	1971	Teaser and the Firecat	Cat Stevens	Album	4	28
61	1975	Still Crazy After All These Years	Paul Simon	Album	4	24
62	1971	Carpenters	Carpenters	Album	4.35	59
63	1972	Lady Sings the Blues: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	Diana Ross	Album + Soundtrack		7
64	1976	Wings at the Speed of Sound	Wings	Album	4	22
65	1971	Every Picture Tells a Story	Rod Stewart	Album	3.25	22
66	1972	Exile on Main St.	The Rolling Stones	Album	4.25	52
67	1975	Windsong	John Denver	Album	2	6
68	1971	Santana (III)	Santana	Album	4.2	22
69	1978	Some Girls	The Rolling Stones	Album	3.5	36
70	1978	Blondes Have More Fun	Rod Stewart	Album	4	10
71	1972	Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player	Elton John	Album	4	22
72	1972	Thick as a Brick	Jethro Tull	Album	4.35	47
73	1975	Physical Graffiti	Led Zeppelin	Album	4.05	41
74	1974	The Sting: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	Scott Joplin, music conducted and adapted by Marvin Hamlisch	Album + Soundtrack	5	9
75	1972	Talking Book	Stevie Wonder	Album	4	25
76	1970	Sweet Baby James	James Taylor	Album	3.15	14
77	1970	Close to You	Carpenters	Album	3	63
78	1973	Diamond Girl	Seals & Crofts	Album	5	3
79	1971	The Concert for Bangladesh	George Harrison	Album + Live	3.5	14
80	1973	1967–1970 (“The Blue Album”)	The Beatles	Album + Compilation	4.65	32
81	1973	Goats Head Soup	The Rolling Stones	Album	3.4	33
82	1973	Los Cochinos	Cheech & Chong	Album	5	4
83	1971	RAM	Paul & Linda McCartney	Album	4.75	28
84	1972	All Directions	The Temptations	Album	3.5	8
85	1976	Their Greatest Hits 1971–1975	Eagles	Album + Compilation	4.65	35
86	1979	In Through the Out Door	Led Zeppelin	Album	3.9	43
87	1978	Cheap Trick at Budokan	Cheap Trick	Album + Live	3.6	25
88	1977	Aja	Steely Dan	Album	4.05	44
89	1974	Not Fragile	Bachman–Turner Overdrive	Album	4.75	14
90	1972	Eat a Peach	The Allman Brothers Band	Album	4.05	23
91	1971	Pearl	Janis Joplin	Album	4.25	36
92	1974	Court and Spark	Joni Mitchell	Album	4.3	21
93	1974	War Child	Jethro Tull	Album	3.75	24
94	1974	Caribou	Elton John	Album	3.2	23
95	1971	Nilsson Schmilsson	Nilsson	Album	2.5	17
96	1974	Chicago VII	Chicago	Album	4.65	10
97	1971	Hot Rocks 1964–1971	The Rolling Stones	Album + Compilation	3.7	22
98	1974	Have You Never Been Mellow	Olivia Newton‐John	Album		50
99	1971	Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon	James Taylor	Album	4.6	10
100	1970	McCartney	Paul McCartney	Album	4	21

Billboard Decade End Chart: Billboard 200 (1970s)

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