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Elvis Presley (right, pictured with US president Richard Nixon in 1970) spent 15 consecutive weeks at number one, beginning shortly after his death in August 1977. Top Country Albums is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music albums in the United States, published by Billboard. In 1977, 12 different albums topped the chart, which ...
This is a list of number-one country albums in the United States by year from the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. 1960s. 1964; ... 1977; 1978; 1979; 1980s. 1980;
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June 25 — Waylon Jennings smash, "Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)" spends its sixth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. It is just the third (and as it turned out, final) six-week No. 1 song of the 1970s, and will be the last song to spend as long atop the charts for 20 years (until 1997's "It's Your Love" by Tim McGraw and Faith Hill).
Thanks to the prevalence of crossover-friendly country pop, several country number ones of 1977 also charted highly on Billboard ' s all-genres singles chart, the Hot 100, including Glen Campbell's "Southern Nights", which reached number one on the Hot 100 in the issue of Billboard dated April 30, the second time that Campbell had taken a song ...
These are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits of 1977. That year, 18 acts earned their first number one songs, such as Leo Sayer, Rose Royce, Mary MacGregor, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Daryl Hall and John Oates, ABBA, David Soul, Thelma Houston, Fleetwood Mac, Bill Conti, Alan O'Day, Shaun Cassidy, Andy Gibb, The Emotions, Meco, and Debby Boone.
These are the Billboard magazine number-one albums of 1977, per the Billboard 200. Rumours by Fleetwood Mac was the best-selling album of 1977. It was number one for 29 non-consecutive weeks, or more than half of the year.
The first number-one in 1977 was "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" by English musician Elton John, continuing from the 1976 charts, and the last was "Sweet Music Man" by American country singer Kenny Rogers, previously with the band The First Edition.