What were your TOP 5 Albums the year you turned 18?
Achtung baby ~ U2
Nevermind ~ Nirvana
Diamonds and Pearls ~ New Power Generation and Prince
Innuendo ~ Queen
Joyride ~ Roxette
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1984- Van Halen
Ride The Lightning - Metallica
Heartbeat City - The Cars
Reckless- Bryan Adams
Grace Under Pressure - Rush
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I looked it up - May 1965
The Sound of Music - Original Soundtrack
Bringing it all back home - Bob Dylan
Mary Poppings - Original Soundtrack
Beatles for Sale - The Beatles
The Freewheelin Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
Not a classic week but I’ve still got three of those five albums too (not the Original Soundtracks)
Oh, they were not the top five for the year just that week
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Oh god, I just looked it up & I suddenly feel rather sick.
Best selling albums of 1978.
- Saturday Night Fever.
- Grease.
- The Album Abba.
- Night flight to Venus. Boney M.
- 20Golden Greats. Nat King cole.
There are some reasonable pop artists in the album top 20. But no album artists 
And I always thought the 70’s was the decade of the album artist.
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Bee gees - Saturday night fever 
Grease - original soundtrack
Billy Joel - 52nd street
The Rolling Stones - Some Girls
Dire Straits / Dire Straits
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Bridge Over Troubled Water ~ Simon & Garfunkel
Led Zeppelin II
Abbey Road ~ the Beatles
Let It Be ~ the Beatles
Abraxas ~ Santana
Those were the days 
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I respectfully disagree. In 1976, I left home to make it on my own and music saved me. I went to hundreds of concerts and in my recollection, 1970’s had some of history’s best music of ALBUM artists.
It was the beginning of disco and being a saxophonist, there was plenty of work in the form of gigs. It was the start of punk rock and other different styles of music. It was a decade of some of the best music ever created ‘in my opinion.’
Blondie - parallel lines - 1978
Nick drake - pink moon - 1972
Devi- Are we not men? - 1978
Derek & the Dominos - 1978
T.Rex - Electric Warrior - 1971
The Stooges- Fun House - 1970
Led Zeppelin- Physical Graffiti - 1975
The Allman Brothers - Eat a Peach - 1972 & At Fillmore East - 1971
Lynyrd Skynyrd,- pronounced - 1973
Joni Mitchell - 1976
Simon & Garfunkel - bridge over troubled water - 1970
Talking Heads - Fear of music -1979
Marvin Gaye - Let’s get it on - 1973
Bob Dillan - The Basement Tapes - 1975
Cosby, Stills, Nash & Young - 1970
The Rolling Stones - Some Girls -1978
Elton John - Madman Across the Water - 1971
Al Green - Let’s Stay Together - 1972
Carol King - Tapestry - 1971
John Legend - Imagine - 1971
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - This Years Model - 1978
David Bowie- Low - 1977
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall - 1979
Neil Young - Harvest - 1972
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness at the Edge of Town - 1978
Queen- A Day @ The Races - 1976
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass - 1970
Talking Heads - More songs about buildings & food - 1978
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - 1973
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the key of life - 1976
Neil Young, After the Gold Rush (1970)
The Clash, The Clash (1977)
Joni Mitchell, Blue (1971)
Elvis Costello, My Aim is True (1978)
Pink Floyd, The Wall (1979)
Van Morrison, Moondance (1970)
Sly & The Family Stone, There’s A Riot Goin’ On (1971)
Fleetwood Mac, Rumours (1977)
Stevie Wonder, Innervisions (1973)
The Who, Who’s Next (1971)
David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)
The Beatles, Let it Be (1970)
Sex Pistols, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols (1977)
Television, Marquee Moon (1977)
The Ramones, Ramones (1976
Miles Davis, Bitches Brew (1970)
Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run (1975)
Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
The Rolling Stones, Exile On Main St. (1972)
Marvin Gaye, What’s Going On (1971)
Bob Dylan, Blood on the Tracks (1975)
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Very few of those were album artists. In fact, from what I can see. The closest thing to an album artist, are Miles Davis who released 173 singles, or Led Zepp who released 89. Television only released 10 singles, but did that from 6 albums.
I remember the 70’s as a time of great album artists & there being a big divide between the real album artists , normally prog rock, who only released albums & bands like Led Zepp, ELO, Barry White etc etc who released singles & albums.
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[quote=“Gee3”]a big divide between the real album artists , normally prog rock, who only released albums & bands like Led Zepp, ELO, Barry White etc etc who released singles & albums.
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Lep Zep, famously, never released a single single in the UK throughout their entire career.
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Perhaps we are defining album artist differently.
Listed below; top 100 ALBUM artists of the ‘70’s.
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1967
Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn - Pink Floyd
Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks
A Hard Road - John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers
Trogglodynamite - The Troggs
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Most of those on your list are artists from the 1960s though
Ok. Then the internet is wrong. 
Many started life in the 60s, but their big album sales were in the 70s.
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Sound of Silence…Simon & Garfunkel.
Sweet Heart of the Rodeo…The Byrds.
Tommy…The Who.
Abbey Road…The Beatles.
Revolver…The Beatles.
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1968
1 Beatles White Album
2 Simon and Garfunkel Bookends
3 Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland
4 Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet
5 The Doors Waiting for the Sun
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I remember 1972 being a bit better than this…
1 Various artists - 20 Dynamic Hits
2 Various artists- 20 All Time Hits Of The 50’s
3 Simon & Garfunkel - Simon And Garfunkel’s Greatest Hits
4 Rod Stewart - Never A Dull Moment|
5 Various artists - 20 Fantastic Hits|
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