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The following lists the top 25 (end of year) charting albums on the Australian Album Charts, for the year of 1970. These were the best charting albums in Australia for 1970. The source for this year is the "Kent Music Report", known from 1987 onwards as the "Australian Music Report". #
These are the Billboard magazine number-one albums for each week in 1970. Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel was the best-selling album of 1970, spending ten consecutive weeks at number one.
Album Weeks at number one 6 January Neil Diamond: Serenade: 7 weeks 13 January 20 January Elton John: Elton John's Greatest Hits: 5 weeks 27 January 3 February 10 February 17 February 24 February Skyhooks: Living in the 70's: 16 weeks 3 March 10 March 17 March 24 March 31 March 7 April 14 April 21 April 28 April 5 May 12 May 19 May 26 May 2 ...
Arguably one of the best decades of music, the 1970s saw the rise of disco, long shaggy hair, the continuation of the free love movement, and, of course, Rock and Roll at its height of fame.
It's become a cliché, even for post-Baby Boomers, to look back wistfully on the early '70s as some kind of untouchable golden age for popular music. But when you survey all the era's best albums ...
The 1970s was an era that produced some of the greatest live albums in history. In the previous decade, artists and producers took great pains to make studio albums sound as spotless and pristine ...
Barbra Streisand's Greatest Hits; The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie; The Best of Connie Smith Volume II; The Best of Dolly Parton; The Best of John Coltrane; The Best of Peter, Paul and Mary: Ten Years Together; The Best of Ray Charles; The Best of the Pink Floyd; The Best of Waylon Jennings
The Bee Gees scored the most number-one hits (9 songs) and had the longest cumulative run atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart (27 weeks) during the 1970s. Rod Stewart remained at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 17 weeks during the 1970s. Elton John amassed the second-most number-one hits on the Hot 100 chart during the 1970s (6 songs). #