BILLBOARD MAGAZINE'S (BARRY KOWAL) TOP ALBUMS OF 1977

No.-Album-Artist-Peak Month
 1 RUMOURS-FLEETWOOD MAC-JUNE                                                                                    3448
 2 HOTEL CALIFORNIA-EAGLES-April                                                                  1676
 3 A STAR IS BORN SOUNDTRACK-BARBARA STREISAND-February                                           1198
 4 AJA-STEELY DAN-December                                                                        1084
 5 SIMPLE DREAMS-LINDA RONSTADT-December                                                          1056
 6 FOREIGNER-FOREIGNER-October                                                                    1010
 7 COMMODORES-COMMODORES-July                                                                     1008
 8 ALL N ALL-Earth,Wind & Fire-December                                                            828
 9 BARRY MANILOW LIVE-Barry Manilow-July                                                           698
10 BOOK OF DREAMS-Steve Miller-July                                                                694
11 I'm In You-Peter Frampton-August                                                                666
12 Wings Over America-Wings-January                                                                666
13 Marvin Gaye Live At The London Palladium-Marvin Gaye-May                                        640
14 JT-James Taylor-August                                                                          632
15 Shaun Cassidy-Shaun Cassidy-October                                                             614
16 Star Wars Soundtrack-September                                                                  612
17 A New World Record-Electric Light Orchestra-January                                             590
18 CSN-Crosby,Stills & Nash-August                                                                 576
19 Rocky-Soundtrack-June                                                                           530
20 Little Queen-Heart-July                                                                         522
21 Best Of The Doobie Brothers-Doobie Brothers-January                                             496
22-Anytime...Anywhere-Rita Coolidge-September                                                      484
23 Here At Last...Bee Gees..Live-Bee Gees-July                                                     468
24 Moody Blue-Elvis Presley-September                                                              464
25 Superman-Barbra Streisand-August                                                                458
26 Leftoverture-Kansas-April                                                                       450
27 Linda Rondstadt's Greatest Hits-Linda Rondstadt-January                                         436
28 Year Of The Cat-Al Stewart-March                                                                394
29 Night Moves-Bob Seger-March                                                                     364
30 Rejoice-Emotions-September                                                                      362
31 Live!-Commodores-December                                                                       356
32 Go For Your Guns-Isley Brothers-May                                                             354
33 Love Gun-Kiss-August                                                                            346
34 Street Survivors-Lynyrd Skynyrd-December                                                        332
35 You Light Up My Life-Debby Boone-December                                                       332
36 Animals-Pink Floyd-March                                                                        324
37 I,Robot-Alan Parson's Project-October                                                           324
38 In Flight-George Benson-March                                                                   320
39 Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl-Beatles-June                                                      300
40 Izitso-Cat Stevens-July                                                                         298
41 This One's For You-Barry Manilow-April                                                          296
42 Going For The One-Yes-September                                                                 288
43 Moonflower-Santana-December                                                                     278
44 In Full Bloom-Rose Royce-November                                                               276
45 Chicago XI-Chicago-November                                                                     272
46 Songs From The Wood-Jethro Tull-May                                                             254
47 Unpredictable-Natalie Cole-April                                                                252
48 Love You Live-Rolling Stones-November                                                           244
49 Songs For Someone You Love-Barry White-November                                                 240
50 Let's Get Small-Steve Martin-December                                                           232
51 Roaring Silence-Manfred Mann's Earth Band-March                                                 230
52 John Denver's Greatest Hits Volume II-John Denver-April                                         228
53 Livin' On The Fault Line-Doobie Brothers-October                                                204
54 Elvis In Concert-Elvis Presley-December                                                         196
55 Floaters-Floaters-September                                                                     196
56 A Day At The Races-Queen-February                                                               192
57 Right On Time-Brothers Johnson-September                                                        176
58 Love At The Greek-Neil Diamond-April                                                            172
59 Endless Flight-Leo Sayer-June                                                                   158
60 33 1/3-George Harrison-January                                                                  154
61 Any Way You Like It-Thelma Houston-May                                                          154
62 Low-David Bowie-February                                                                        150
63 Foghat Live-Foghat-December                                                                     146
64 A Rock & Roll Alternative-Atlanta Rhythm Section-May                                            146
65 Ask Rufus-Rufus-March                                                                           146
66 Work Volume I-Emerson,Lake & Palmer-May                                                         112
67 Changes In Latitudes,Changes In Attitudes-Jimmy Buffet-July                                     112
68 Too Hot To Handle-Heatwave-November                                                             112
69 We Must Believe In Magic-Crystal Gayle-December                                                 110
70 Hejira-Joni Mitchell-January                                                                    106
71 Star Wars & Other Galactic Funk-Meco-October                                                    106
72 Nether Lands-Dan Fogelberg-July                                                                  70
73 Car Wash Soundtrack-Rose Royce-February                                                          68