BILLBOARD (USA) MAGAZINE’S (MAGAZINE’S CHART) TOP 100 ALBUMS OF 1972*
No. Album-Artist-Label-Peak Month 1 HARVEST-NEIL YOUNG-REPRISE 2 TAPESTRY-CAROLE KING-Ode 3 AMERICAN PIE-DON McLEAN-United Artists 4 TEASER & THE FIRECAT-CAT STEVENS-A&M 5 HOT ROCKS-ROLLING STONES-London 6 KILLER-ALICE COOPER-Warner Brothers 7 FIRST TAKE-ROBERTA FLACK-Atlantic 8 AMERICA-America-Warner Brothers 9 MUSIC-Carole King-Ode 10 MADMAN ACROSS THE WATER-Elton John-Uni 11 All Day Music-War-United Artists 12 Let's Stay Together-Al Green-Hi 13 Baby I'm A Want You-Bread-Elektra 14 Led Zeppelin IV-Led Zeppelin-Atlantic 15 Eat A Peach-Allman Brothers-April 16 Concert For Bangladesh-George Harrison & Friends-Apple 17 Quiet Fire-Roberta Flack-Atlantic 18 Fragile-Yes-Atlantic 19 Fiddler On The Roof-Soundtrack-United Artists 20 Nilsson Schmilsson-Nilsson-RCA 21 Cheech & Chong-Cheech & Chong-Ode 22 Live-Donny Hathaway-Atco 23 Gather Me-Melanie-Neighborhood 24 Honky Chateau-Elton John-Uni 25 Stylistics-Stylistics-Avco 26 Thick As A Brick-Jethro Tull-Reprise 27 History Of Eric Clapton-Eric Clapton-Atco 28 Chicago V-Chicago-Columbia 29 Santana(71)-Santana-Columbia 30 FM AM-George Carlin-Little David 31 Exile On Main Street-Rolling Stones-Rolling Stones 32 Paul Simon-Paul Simon-Columbia 33 Godspell-Original Cast-Bell 34 Shaft Soundtrack-Isaac Hayes-Enterprise 35 Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway-Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway-Atlantic 36 Smokin'-Humble Pie-A&M 37 A Lonely Man-Chi-Lites-Brunswick 38 Black Moses-Isaac Hayes-Enterprise 39 Godfather-Soundtrack-Paramount 40 Bealtitude/Respect Yourself-Staple Singers-Stax 41 Jesus Christ Superstar-Various Artists-Decca 42 Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys-Traffic-Island 43 Carpenters-Carpenters-A&M 44 Still Bill-Bill Withers-Sussex 45 There's A Riot Goin' On-Sly & Family Stone-Epic 46 Jackson Five's Greatest Hits-Jackson Five-Motown 47 Music Of My Mind-Stevie Wonder-Tamla 48 Cher-Cher-Kapp 49 E.Pluribus Funk-Grand Funk Railroad-Capitol 50 Chicago At Carnegie Hall-Chicago-Columbia 51 Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume II-Bob Dylan-Columbia 52 Procol Harum In Concert-Procol Harum-A&M 53 Manassas-Stephen Stills-Atlantic 54 Young,Gifted & Black-Aretha Franklin-Atlantic 55 Janis Joplin In Concert-Janis Joplin-Columbia 56 Lookin' Through The Windows-Jackson Five-Motown 57 Harmony-Three Dog Night-Dunhill 58 Malo-Malo-Warner Brothers 59 Straight Up-Badfinger-Apple 60 All I Ever Need Is You-Sonny & Cher-Kapp 61 Tea For The Tillerman-Cat Stevens-A&M 62 Portrait Of Donny-Donny Osmond-MGM 63 The London Chuck Berry Sessions-Chess 64 Phase III-Osmonds-MGM 65 Every Picture Tells A Story-Rod Stewart-Mercury 66 Big Bambu-Cheech & Chong-A&M 67 To You With Love-Donny Osmond-MGM 68 Anticipation-Carly Simon-Elektra 69 I Wrote A Simple Song-Billy Preston 70 A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse-Faces-Warner Brothers 71 Nash & Crosby-Graham Nash & David Crosby-Atlantic 72 Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits-Simon & Garfunkel-Columbia 73 Layla-Derek & The Dominos-Atco 74 Live-Osmonds-MGM 75 Electric Warrior-T.Rex-Reprise 76 Master Of Reality-Black Sabbath-Warner Brothers 77 A Clockwork Orange-Soundtrack-Warner Brothers 78 A Song For You-Carpenters-A&M 79 School's Out-Alice Cooper-Warner Brothers 80 Aqualung-Jethro Tull-Reprise 81 Moods-Neil Diamond-Uni 82 Summer Of '42-Peter Nero-Columbia 83 Elvis At Madison Square Garden-Elvis Presley-RCA 84 Flash-Flash-Capitol 85 Now-Sammy Davis,Jr-MGM 86 Machine Head-Deep Purple-Warner Brothers 87 Jeff Beck Group-Jeff Beck Group-Epic 88 Amazing Grace-Aretha Franklin-Atlantic 89 Carney-Leon Russell-Shelter 90 Sonny & Cher Live-Sonny & Cher-Kapp 91 Got To Be There-Michael Jackson-Motown 92 Demons & Wizards-Uriah Heep-Mercury 93 Every Good Boy Deserves A Favour-Moody Blues-Threshold 94 Yes Album-Yes-Atlantic 95 Love Theme From "The Godfather"-Andy Williams-Columbia 96 Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles Live-Columbia 97 Cabaret-Soundtrack-ABC 98 Mark,Don & Mel-Grand Funk Railroad-Capitol 99 Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get-Dramatics-Volt 100 Performance:Rockin' The Fillmore-Humble Pie-A&M * As published in the December 30,1972 issue of Billboard Magazine