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dwill123

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Posted: January 29 2015 at 18:15

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Posted: January 29 2015 at 20:50

S&G, but the competition wasn't fierce.

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Posted: January 30 2015 at 11:21

Not a bad list at all actually.

As for 52nd Street, it's one of those rare albums where I've listened to one side hundreds of times, and tried out the other side (in this case 'side 2') maybe...thrice? Can't get through it; last time I tried was a few years ago...maybe I should try it again soon. I think part of the reason for this album's megasales had to do with riding on the tails of The Stranger, which was a monster and is chock full of classics.

Props to Yvonne Elliman for being involved in two mega-selling soundtrack/muscial type deals. Good ones too.

I'm going with Rumours.

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Posted: January 30 2015 at 11:26

The folk duo.

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Posted: January 30 2015 at 11:26

i have every one of those albums ..

Elton John was always a favourite but I've come to love 52nd Street ..

Especially 'Until the Night' killer tune

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Posted: January 30 2015 at 11:45

HolyMoly wrote:

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The rest of the world mostly bought different albums, of course.

Here in the UK, only 1970 and 1978 had the same albums at the top.
I'm voting for Simon & Garfunkel, which was the top-selling album in the UK in 1970 and also in 1971.

Interesting you should say that -- I first tried to search for the top UK albums rather than US, because I grew up in the US and was interested to see what the UK was up to during that time. But the search took me more than 10 seconds, so being a short-attention-span Yank, I settled for the readily available US data.

So yeah, by "the world", I was just taking rhetorically.

Here's the UK list (1972 was topped by a K-Tel album!)

1970	Bridge Over Troubled Water	Simon and Garfunkel
1971	Bridge Over Troubled Water	Simon and Garfunkel
1972	20 Dynamic Hits	Various Artists
1973	Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player	Elton John
1974	The Singles: 1969–1973	The Carpenters
1975	The Best of the Stylistics	The Stylistics
1976	Greatest Hits	ABBA
1977	Arrival	ABBA
1978	Saturday Night Fever	Original Soundtrack
1979	Parallel Lines	Blondie

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Poll Question: Which is your favorite?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
1970: Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge over Troubled Water	5	[29.41%]
1971: VA - Jesus Christ Superstar	1	[5.88%]
1972: Neil Young - Harvest	1	[5.88%]
1973: War - The World is a Ghetto	3	[17.65%]
1974: Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road	1	[5.88%]
1975: Elton John's Greatest Hits	0	[0.00%]
1976: Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive!	1	[5.88%]
1977: Fleetwood Mac - Rumours	4	[23.53%]
1978: VA - Saturday Night Fever soundtrack	0	[0.00%]
1979: Billy Joel - 52nd Street	1	[5.88%]
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