TOP PERFORMING ALBUMS
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No 10
Album: Pink Flag - Wire
Released: December 1977
Recorded: September–October 1977 at Advision Studios, London, England, UK
Genre: Art punk, Punk rock, Post-punk
Length: 35:37
Label: Harvest
Producer: Mike Thorne
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No 9
Album: Trans-Europe Express - Kraftwerk
Released: March 1977
Recorded: 1976 at Kling Klang Studio in Düsseldorf, Germany
Genre: Electronic
Length: 42:45
Label: Kling Klang
Producers: Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider
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No 8
Album: Exodus - Bob Marley & the Wailers
Released: 3 June 1977
Recorded: Harry J. Studio, Kingston, Jamaica, 1976 and Island Studios, London, January–April 1977
Genre: Reggae
Length: 37:24
Label: Island Tuff Gong (reissue)
Producers: Bob Marley and the Wailers
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No 7
Album: Aja - Steely Dan
Released: 23 September 1977
Recorded: January to July 1977 at the Village Recorder, West Los Angeles, California; Producer’s Workshop, Hollywood; Warner Bros studios, Burbank; ABC recording studios, N.Y.C.; Sound Labs, Hollywood; A&R studios, Manhattan
Genre: Jazz rock
Length: 39:58
Label: ABC
Producer: Gary Katz
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No 6
Album: The Clash - The Clash
Released: 8 April 1977
Recorded: 10–27 February 1977 at CBS Studios in London and National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield, England
Genre: Punk rock
Length: 35:18
Label: CBS
Producers: Mickey Foote
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No 5
Album: Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols - Sex Pistols
Released: 28 October 1977
Recorded: October 1976; March–June 1977; August 1977 at Wessex Sound Studios, London, England
Genre: Punk rock
Length: 338:44 (12-track version), 34:32 (11 track version)
Label: Virgin
Producers: Chris Thomas and Bill Price
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No 4
Album: Low - David Bowie
Released: 14 January 1977
Recorded: September – October 1976 (except “Subterraneans”, originally recorded December 1975, Cherokee Studios, Los Angeles) at Château d’Hérouville(Hérouville, France), Hansa Studio by the Wall(West Berlin, Germany)
Genre: Art rock, Experimental rock, Ambient, Avant-pop, Electronic
Length: 38:26
Label: RCA Records
Producers: David Bowie and Tony Visconti
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No 3
Album: Animals - Pink Floyd
Released: 23 January 1977
Recorded: April–December 1976 at Britannia Row Studios, London
Genre: Progressive rock
Length: 41:41
Label: Harvest Columbia
Producer: Pink Floyd
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No 2
Album: Marquee Moon - Television
Released: February 1977
Recorded: September 1976 at A & R Recording in New York City
Genre: Post-punk, Rock, Art punk
Length: 45:54
Label: Elektra
Producers: Andy Johns and Tom Verlaine
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No 1 (Best Performing Album)
Album: Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Released: 4 February 1977
Recorded: 1976 at Criteria Studios, Miami / Record Plant Studios, Sausalito and Los Angeles / Zellerbach Auditorium, Berkeley / Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco / Davlen Recording Studio, North Hollywood
Genre: Soft rock, Pop, Rock pop
Length: 40:01
Label: Warner Bros.
Producers: Fleetwood, Mac Ken Caillat and Richard Dashut