JANUARY
Top hit
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds · Elton John
Top album
Greatest Hits · Elton John
Year
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Stadium anthems ascend
1975
Fleetwood Mac assembles a heartbreak masterpiece, Queen turns the studio into an opera house, and disco starts flashing its mirror ball toward mainstream radio.
Arena Rock Crowned
Fleetwood Mac begins assembling the album that will define the rest of the decade while Queen turns the studio into an opera house. Disco stops being a downtown secret and starts flashing its mirror ball toward the mainstream, but rock still owns the summer tour circuit. Every anthem feels sized for a crowd of fifty thousand singing the chorus back.
- arena rock
- Fleetwood Mac
- Queen
- disco emergence
- classic rock
- Fleetwood Mac's self-titled album sets up 'Rumours'
- Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' redefines the rock single
- Earth, Wind & Fire's 'That's the Way of the World' fuses funk and pop
- Captain & Tennille's 'Love Will Keep Us Together' tops the year
Hot 100 · weeks at #1
Top songs
Album chart · weeks at #1
Top albums
Through the year
Tap a month to drill into chart weeks.
FEBRUARY
Top hit
Laughter In The Rain · Neil Sedaka
Top album
Greatest Hits · Elton John
MARCH
Top hit
Best Of My Love · Eagles
Top album
Blood On The Tracks · Bob Dylan
APRIL
Top hit
Lovin' You · Minnie Riperton
Top album
Physical Graffiti · Led Zeppelin
MAY
Top hit
He Don't Love You (Like I Love You) · Tony Orlando
Top album
Chicago VIII · Chicago
JUNE
Top hit
Thank God I'm A Country Boy · John Denver
Top album
Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy · Elton John
JULY
Top hit
Love Will Keep Us Together · The Captain
Top album
Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy · Elton John
AUGUST
Top hit
One Of These Nights · Eagles
Top album
One Of These Nights · Eagles
SEPTEMBER
Top hit
Rhinestone Cowboy · Glen Campbell
Top album
Red Octopus · Jefferson Starship
OCTOBER
Top hit
Fame · David Bowie
Top album
Wish You Were Here · Pink Floyd
NOVEMBER
Top hit
Island Girl · Elton John
Top album
Red Octopus · Jefferson Starship
DECEMBER
Top hit
Fly, Robin, Fly · Silver Convention
Top album
Still Crazy After All These Years · Paul Simon
