BILLBOARD MAGAZINE'S (BARRY KOWAL) TOP ALBUMS OF 1977
No.-Album-Artist-Peak Month 1 RUMOURS-FLEETWOOD MAC-JUNE 3448 2 HOTEL CALIFORNIA-EAGLES-April 1676 3 A STAR IS BORN SOUNDTRACK-BARBARA STREISAND-February 1198 4 AJA-STEELY DAN-December 1084 5 SIMPLE DREAMS-LINDA RONSTADT-December 1056 6 FOREIGNER-FOREIGNER-October 1010 7 COMMODORES-COMMODORES-July 1008 8 ALL N ALL-Earth,Wind & Fire-December 828 9 BARRY MANILOW LIVE-Barry Manilow-July 698 10 BOOK OF DREAMS-Steve Miller-July 694 11 I'm In You-Peter Frampton-August 666 12 Wings Over America-Wings-January 666 13 Marvin Gaye Live At The London Palladium-Marvin Gaye-May 640 14 JT-James Taylor-August 632 15 Shaun Cassidy-Shaun Cassidy-October 614 16 Star Wars Soundtrack-September 612 17 A New World Record-Electric Light Orchestra-January 590 18 CSN-Crosby,Stills & Nash-August 576 19 Rocky-Soundtrack-June 530 20 Little Queen-Heart-July 522 21 Best Of The Doobie Brothers-Doobie Brothers-January 496 22-Anytime...Anywhere-Rita Coolidge-September 484 23 Here At Last...Bee Gees..Live-Bee Gees-July 468 24 Moody Blue-Elvis Presley-September 464 25 Superman-Barbra Streisand-August 458 26 Leftoverture-Kansas-April 450 27 Linda Rondstadt's Greatest Hits-Linda Rondstadt-January 436 28 Year Of The Cat-Al Stewart-March 394 29 Night Moves-Bob Seger-March 364 30 Rejoice-Emotions-September 362 31 Live!-Commodores-December 356 32 Go For Your Guns-Isley Brothers-May 354 33 Love Gun-Kiss-August 346 34 Street Survivors-Lynyrd Skynyrd-December 332 35 You Light Up My Life-Debby Boone-December 332 36 Animals-Pink Floyd-March 324 37 I,Robot-Alan Parson's Project-October 324 38 In Flight-George Benson-March 320 39 Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl-Beatles-June 300 40 Izitso-Cat Stevens-July 298 41 This One's For You-Barry Manilow-April 296 42 Going For The One-Yes-September 288 43 Moonflower-Santana-December 278 44 In Full Bloom-Rose Royce-November 276 45 Chicago XI-Chicago-November 272 46 Songs From The Wood-Jethro Tull-May 254 47 Unpredictable-Natalie Cole-April 252 48 Love You Live-Rolling Stones-November 244 49 Songs For Someone You Love-Barry White-November 240 50 Let's Get Small-Steve Martin-December 232 51 Roaring Silence-Manfred Mann's Earth Band-March 230 52 John Denver's Greatest Hits Volume II-John Denver-April 228 53 Livin' On The Fault Line-Doobie Brothers-October 204 54 Elvis In Concert-Elvis Presley-December 196 55 Floaters-Floaters-September 196 56 A Day At The Races-Queen-February 192 57 Right On Time-Brothers Johnson-September 176 58 Love At The Greek-Neil Diamond-April 172 59 Endless Flight-Leo Sayer-June 158 60 33 1/3-George Harrison-January 154 61 Any Way You Like It-Thelma Houston-May 154 62 Low-David Bowie-February 150 63 Foghat Live-Foghat-December 146 64 A Rock & Roll Alternative-Atlanta Rhythm Section-May 146 65 Ask Rufus-Rufus-March 146 66 Work Volume I-Emerson,Lake & Palmer-May 112 67 Changes In Latitudes,Changes In Attitudes-Jimmy Buffet-July 112 68 Too Hot To Handle-Heatwave-November 112 69 We Must Believe In Magic-Crystal Gayle-December 110 70 Hejira-Joni Mitchell-January 106 71 Star Wars & Other Galactic Funk-Meco-October 106 72 Nether Lands-Dan Fogelberg-July 70 73 Car Wash Soundtrack-Rose Royce-February 68