BILLBOARD (USA) MAGAZINE’S (MAGAZINE’S CHART) TOP 100 ALBUMS OF 1977*
No. Album-Artist-Label-Peak Month 1 RUMOURS-FLEETWOOD MAC-WARNER BROTHERS 2 SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE-STEVIE WONDER-Tamla 3 A STAR IS BORN-BARBARA STREISAND/SOUNDTRACK-Columbia 4 HOTEL CALIFORNIA-EAGLES-Asylum 5 BOSTON-BOSTON-Epic 6 A NEW WORLD RECORD-ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA-United Artists 7 PART 3-K.C. & THE SUNSHINE BAND-T.K. 8 SILK DEGREES-Boz Scaggs-Columbia 9 NIGHT MOVES-Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band-Capitol 10 FLEETWOOD MAC-Fleetwood Mac-Warner Brothers 11 Fly Like An Eagle-Steve Miller Band-Capitol 12 Their Greatest Hits-Eagles-Asylum 13 Bigger Than Both Of Us-Daryl Hall & John Oates-RCA 14 Frampton Comes Alive-Peter Frampton-A&M 15 This One's For You-Barry Manilow-Arista 16 Endless Flight-Leo Sayer-Warner Brothers 17 Leftoverture-Kansas-Kirshner 18 Year Of The Cat-Al Stewart-Janus 19 Rock & Roll Over-Kiss-Casablanca 20 Linda Rondstadt's Greatest Hits-Linda Rondstadt-Asylum 21 Changes In Latitudes,Changes In Attitudes-Jimmy Buffet-ABC 22 Dreamboat Annie-Heart-Mushroom 23 Commodores-Commodores-Motown 24 Children Of The World-Bee Gees-RSO 25 Foreigner-Foreigner-Atlantic 26 Breezin'-George Benson-Warner Brothers 27 In Flight-George Benson-Warner Brothers 28 Any Way You Like It-Thelma Houston-Tamla 29 The Pretender-Jackson Browne-Asylum 30 Best Of The Doobie Brothers-Doobie Brothers-Warner Brothers 31 A Night On The Town-Rod Stewart-Warner Brothers 32 A Rock & Roll Alternative-Atlanta Rhythm Section-Polydor 33 A Place In The Sun-Pablo Cruise-A&M 34 Arrival-Abba-Atlantic 35 Wings Over America-Paul McCartney & Wings-Capitol 36 Carolina Dreams-Marshall Tucker Band-Capricorn 37 Rocky Soundtrack-United Artists 38 Destroyer-Kiss-Casablanca 39 Doctor Buzzard?s Original Savannah Band-RCA 40 Car Wash Soundtrack-Rose Royce-MCA 41 Even In The Quietest Moments-Supertramp-A&M 42 Go For Your Guns-Isley Brothers-T-Neck 43 Anytime...Anywhere-Rita Coolidge-A&M 44 Book Of Dreams-Steve Miller Band-Capitol 45 Marvin Gaye Live At The London Palladium-Marvin Gaye-Tamla 46 Little Queen-Heart-Portrait 47 Right On Time-Brothers Johnson-A&M 48 Animals-Pink Floyd-Columbia 49 Live-Barry Manilow-Arista 50 Teddy Pendergrass-Teddy Pendergrass-Philadelphia International 51 Here At Last...Bee Gees...Live-Bee Gees-RSO 52 Spirit-Earth,Wind & Fire-Columbia 53 Unpredictable-Natalie Cole-Capitol 54 Toys In The Attic-Aerosmith-Columbia 55 This Is Niecy-Deniece Williams-Columbia 56 A Real Mutha For You-Johnny "Guitar" Watson-DJM 57 Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly-Capitol 58 Celebrate My Home-Kenny Loggins-Columbia 59 The Song Remains The Same-Led Zeppelin-Atlantic 60 Works Volume I-Emerson,Lake & Palmer-Atlantic 61 I Hope We Get To Love In Time-Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis,Jr.-ABC 62 Alive!-Kiss-Casablanca 63 I Remember Yesterday-Donna Summer-Casablanca 64 Star Wars Soundtrack-20th Century 65 Slave-Slave-Cotillion 66 Four Seasons Of Love-Donna Summer-Casablanca 67 Ol' Waylon-Waylon Jennings-RCA 68 Nether Lands-Dan Fogelberg-Full Moon 69 Firefall-Firefall-Atlantic 70 Ask Rufus-Rufus & Chaka Khan-ABC 71 Gold Plated-Climax Blues Band-Sire 72 I'm In You-Peter Frampton-A&M 73 Shaun Cassidy-Shaun Cassidy-Warner Brothers 74 Rejoice-Emotions-Columbia 75 Conquistador-Maynard Ferguson-Columbia 76 Ann The Name Is Bootsy Baby-Bootsy's Rubber Band-Warner Brothers 77 Don't Stop Believin'-Olivia Newton-John-MCA 78 Burnin' Sky-Bad Company-Swan Song 79 Cat Scratch Fever-Ted Nugent-Epic 80 Blue Moves-Elton John-Rocket 81 Izitso-Cat Stevens-A&M 82 Songs From The Wood-Jethro Tull-Chrysalis 83 CSN-Crosby,Stills & Nash-Atlantic 84 Streisand Superman-Barbra Streisand-Columbia 86 JT-James Taylor-Warner Brothers 87 Lights Out-UFO-Chrysalis 88 Song Of Joy-Captain & Tennille-A&M 89 One More For The Road-Lynyrd Skynyrd-MCA 90 Chicago X-Chicago-Columbia 91 Exodus-Bob Marley & The Wailers-Island 92 After The Lovin'-Engelbert Humperdinck-Epic 93 Hasten Down The Wind-Linda Rondstadt-Asylum 94 Floaters-Floaters-ABC 95 33 1/3-George Harrison-Dark Horse 96 Jacksons-Jacksons-Epic 97 Hot On The Tracks-Commodores-Motown 98 Tryin' To Get The Feeling-Barry Manilow-Arista 99 Roaring Silence-Manfred Mann's Earth Band-Warner Brothers 100 Heavy Waeather-Weather Raport-Columbia * As published in the December 31st,1977 issue of Billboard Magazine