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The following lists the top 25 (end of year) charting albums on the Australian Album Charts, for the year of 1974. These were the best charting albums in Australia for 1974. The source for this year is the "Kent Music Report", known from 1987 onwards as the "Australian Music Report".
#
Title
Artist
Highest pos. reached
weeks at No. 1
1.
Band on the Run
Paul McCartney & Wings
1
7
2.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elton John
1
3
3.
Hot August Night
Neil Diamond
1
29 (pkd #1 in 1973 & 74)
4.
Caribou
Elton John
1
10
5.
Can the Can
Suzi Quatro
2
6.
Tubular Bells
Mike Oldfield
1
4
7.
The Sting
Motion Picture Soundtrack
1
7
8.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Neil Diamond
1
4
9.
The Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd
2
10.
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Rick Wakeman
2
11.
Quatro
Suzi Quatro
1
6
12.
Pin Ups
David Bowie
4
13.
Back Home Again
John Denver
2
14.
Serenade
Neil Diamond
1
7
15.
Ringo
Ringo Starr
2
16.
Hard Road
Stevie Wright
2
17.
Goat's Head Soup
The Rolling Stones
1
4
18.
461 Ocean Boulevard
Eric Clapton
2
19.
Slipstream
Sherbet
3
20.
Diamond Dogs
David Bowie
3
21.
My Name Means Horse
Ross Ryan
3
22.
Buddha and the Chocolate Box
Cat Stevens
5
23.
Burn
Deep Purple
7
24.
Bad Company
Bad Company
6
25.
John Denver's Greatest Hits
John Denver
4
These charts are calculated by David Kent of the Kent Music Report and they are based on the number of weeks and position the records reach within the top 100 albums for each week.
source: David Kent's "Australian Chart Book 1970-1992"
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