List Of UK Top-ten Albums In 1977
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The
UK Albums Chart The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom. It was published for the first time on 22 July 1956 and is compiled every week by the Official Charts C ...
is one of many music charts compiled by the
Official Charts Company The Official Charts (legal name: The Official UK Charts Company Limited) is a British inter-professional organization that compiles various "official" record charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland and France. In the United Kingdom, its charts inc ...
that calculates the best-selling albums of the week in the United Kingdom. Before 2004, the chart was only based on the sales of physical albums. This list shows albums that peaked in the Top 10 of the
UK Albums Chart The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom. It was published for the first time on 22 July 1956 and is compiled every week by the Official Charts C ...
during
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, as well as albums which peaked in
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and
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but were in the top 10 in 1977. The entry date is when the album appeared in the top ten for the first time (week ending, as published by the Official Charts Company, which is six days after the chart is announced). The first new number-one album of the year was by '' A Day at the Races'' by
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. Overall, seventeen different albums peaked at number one in 1977, with seventeen unique artists hitting that position.


Top-ten albums

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See also

*
1977 in British music This is a summary of 1977 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. Events *1 January – The Clash headline the gala opening of the London music club, The Roxy. *6 January – Record company EMI drops the c ...
* List of number-one albums from the 1970s (UK)


References

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External links


1977 album chart archive
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(click on relevant week) {{UK Music Charts United Kingdom top 10 albums Top 10 albums
1977 Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic R ...