The 1970's Charts

 The 1970's charts....

This page will feature all the completed Real Charts from  the 1970's. So far only the 1971, 1972, 1973 and 1979 are still to be sorted. 

First there is an incomplete year PDF from 1978 file here. These are being updated now. Please see the updated 1978 charts at the bottom of this page.  

Real Chart 1978 to Sept 3 (incomplete year) PDF

The year 1970 is right here. With the 1969 charts now complete the PDF below has been updated filling in the blanks of Version One. The full charts are now available via the PDF link below. They include FULL sales figures and a complete list of the records that sold 250K or more in order. 

Real Chart 1970 Version 2 

The top 100's for 1976 start after the 1974 charts. And the 1977 charts after the 1976 ones. 

1974

The year 1974 is now complete. As the 1973 charts are yet to be sorted the highest positions and weeks, from that year will be missing and the sales from the previous year will not be included. This will result in gaps in the tables, till all the 1973 records are gone. The sales symbols for the 1973 big sellers will be green for the time being. These are the sales for 1974 ONLY. A few of the records have been back dated weeks wise. 
The PDF of the year including all 254 best sellers is below. Version two will be available when the 1973 charts are completed:









































Week error noted on The Osmonds. It should be 7 not 10. 















                          1975

The year 1975 is now underway.  Starting with a double chart covering nearly two weeks of sales. Due to this there are no sales increase symbols as basically every record has sold more than it did on the last chart of 1974. At the end of the year the full PDF will be published below.




















































Next Thursday night or Friday it will be the top 100 best sellers of 1975 chart. Plus the PDF of the year. 


1976

The 1976 Charts are complete and to speed up the page loading times for older computers all but the last chart of the year, plus the top 100 best sellers have had the image files removed. The last chart of the year has been replaced with a different version showing which records didn't make it to the new year. What dropped in the 19 December chart is not yet included in the PDF file, below.   
Below is that PDF file of the full year. It includes all sales figures and all the records that sold 250K in order. It's marked "version 1" due to the missing 1975 chart information. Sometime in the future when the 1975 charts are completed the PDF will be replaced with Version 2. 








    

1977


These are the full 1977 charts. 
The first 1977 chart shown will be the full chart, including left over sales (blue) and the sales from 1977 columns will be seen. The following week you will only see the sales figures for the week, not the running totals. As the first chart combines two weeks sales, there are no arrow sales symbols. It does mention this at the bottom of the chart, but in my haste to print the chart off, I left out the word "two". Sorry about that. The top 100 best sellers is at the end. 
The Full Year PDF is complete and of course has all the sales figures and the rest of the best sellers or at least those sold 250K or more. 











The 30 January chart has been changed since the first upload, correcting the title on number 85. 

















































The 1977 charts with that are complete. 


                    1978
The full year PDF is below. Plus the full best sellers. Including all records that sold 250K or more!






















































 
1979

Below are the charts for 1979.  At the end of the year a full PDF will be added below. Plus the full best sellers. Including all records that sold 250K or more!



















Next week either Saturday or Sunday another 1979 chart will be added.  

7 comments:

  1. Michael15 September 2021 at 04:07

    Are the 1976 charts able to be viewed on the site anywhere?

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    1. Graham Appleyard15 September 2021 at 06:27

      The 1976 charts are available as a PDF by clicking the coloured text between the last 1970 chart and the last 1976 chart on this page.

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  2. Mark12 December 2022 at 00:36

    Hello Graham I saw in a magazine that there use to be The Virgin Chart, I believe it was the early 70's. Do you have any information in relation to that Chart please.

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    1. Graham Appleyard12 December 2022 at 02:34

      Not heard of any Virgin Charts from that period Mark. The Virgin record stores came about out of the 1970's postal strikes, they contributed to the BMRB for certain, so a chart would have possible from them. But not seen any Virgin Charts at all from any period.

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    2. The Popman23 December 2022 at 10:05

      Going back to the early 70s, i think that the Virgin record stores had a chart of sorts for albums that was used sometimes in their advertisements in the music press, whether it was based on sales or just albums that they wanted to sell (likely knowing Branson), who knows! Some corkers in there though no doubt.

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  3. M22 July 2024 at 04:15

    Hi Graham, will the 1979 charts be coming up after 1978 has finished? And will we ever see 1971, 1972 or 1973?
    Regards
    M

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    1. Graham Appleyard22 July 2024 at 09:50

      They certainly will. Then when the 1975 charts are done the 1971 will start then.

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