UNITED KINGDOM’S (BARRY KOWAL) TOP ALBUMS OF 1970
No.-Album-Artist-Peak Month 1 BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER-SIMON & GARFUNKEL-MAY 8548 2 LED ZEPPELIN II-LED ZEPPELIN-February 3022 3 GREATEST HITS-ANDY WILLIAMS-December 2738 4 MOTOWN CHARTBUSTERS VOLUME 3-VARIOUS ARTISTS-February 2030 5 EASY RIDER SOUNDTRACK-VARIOUS ARTISTS-April 1940 6 DEEP PURPLE IN ROCK-DEEP PURPLE-December 1802 7 PAINT YOUR WAGON SOUNDTRACK-VARIOUS ARTISTS-August 1746 8 MOTOWN CHARTBUSTERS VOLUME 4-Various Artists-November 1286 9 LED ZEPPELIN III-Led Zeppelin-November 1204 10 LET IT BE-Beatles-June 1200 11 McCartney-Paul McCartney-May 1004 12 Tom Jones Live In Las Vegas-Tom Jones-January 936 13 Can't Help Falling In Love-Andy Williams-December 786 14 A Question Of Balance-Moody Blues-September 728 15 Atom Heart Mother-Pink Floyd-October 558 16 Paranoid-Black Sabbath-October 540 17 Cosmo's Factory-Creedence Clearwater Revival-September 510 18 Chicago-Chicago-April 496 19 Candles In The Rain-Melanie-October 496 20 Black Sabbath-Black Sabbath-May 494 21 Basket Of Light-Pentangle-February 464 22 Fire And Water-Free-August 418 23 On Stage,February 1970-Elvis Presley-August 418 24 Self Portrait-Bob Dylan-July 414 25 Get Yer Ya Ya's Out-Rolling Stones-September 404 26 Deja Vu-Crosby,Stills,Nash & Young-June 402 27 Something-Shirley Bassey-November 378 28 Emerson,Lake & Palmer-Emerson,Lake & Palmer-December 376 29 Greatest Hits-Beach Boys-September 350 30 Cricklewood Green-Ten Years After-May 344 31 Live At Leeds-Who-July 330 32 The World Of Johnny Cash-September 304 33 Five Bridges-Nice-July 300 34 Over And Over-Nana Mouskouri-December 294 35 The World Beaters Sing The World Beaters-1970 England Football Squad-May 284 36 Tom-Tom Jones-May 282 37 From Memphis To Vegas:From Vegas To Memphis-Elvis Presley-March 270 38 Original Greatest Hits-Everly Brothers-October 266 39 Benefit-Jethro Tull-May 246 40 After The Gold Rush-Neil Young-November 232 41 Hello I'm Johnny Cash-Johnny Cash-March 228 42 Live Cream-Cream-July 226 43 New Morning-Bob Dylan-December 218 44 Canned Heat Cookbook-Canned Heat-February 204 45 A Song For Me-Family-January 202 46 Willy And The Poor Boys-Creedence Clearwater Revival-April 198 47 Funny Girl-Barbra Streisand-March 194 48 In The Wake Of Poseidon-King Crimson-June 182 49 Hot Rats-Frank Zappa-April 156 50 Band Of Gypsys-Jimi Hendrix-July 126 51 Ladies Of The Canyon-Joni Mitchell-June 122 52 I Who Have Nothing-Tom Jones-December 118 53 Thank Christ For The Bomb-Groundhogs-June 118 54 The Exquisite Nana Mouskouri-Nana Mouskouri-April 116 55 Sentimental Journey-Ringo Starr-April 84 56 Abraxas-Santana-December 82 57 More Miller And Other Big Band Magic-Syd Lawrence Orchestra-July 50 58 Anyway-Family-December 48 59 Greatest Hits-Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass-June 46 60 Getting To This-Blodwyn Pig-May 46 61 Empty Rooms-John Mayall-April 44 62 Andy Williams Show-Andy Williams-December 42 63 (Untitled)-Byrds-December 40 64 John Barleycorn Must Die-Traffic-August 40 65 Morrison Hotel-Doors-April 38 66 Glenn Miller Story-Glenn Miller-January 38 67 Mungo Jerry-Mungo Jerry-August 36 68 Full House-Fairport Convention-July 36 69 Eric Clapton-Eric Clapton-September 34 70 Blood Sweat And Tears 3-Blood Sweat And Tears-August 34 71 Diana Ross-Diana Ross-November 34 72 Watertown-Frank Sinatra-May 34