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List of UK Albums Chart number ones of the 1970s

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ4431833 ↗
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The UK Albums Chart is a record chart based on weekly album sales in the United Kingdom; during the 1970s, a total of 148 albums reached number one. In October 1971, Imagine by John Lennon and The Plastic Ono Band became the 100th album to top the UK chart; seven years later, Nightflight to Venus by Boney M. became the 200th album to do so.

Number ones

By artist

Five artists spent 20 weeks or more at number one on the albums chart during the 1970s.

By record label

Eight record labels spent 20 weeks or more at number one on the albums chart during the 1970s.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of UK Albums Chart number ones of the 1970s” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.