Top 30-Selling Albums of 1973 (The Year That Changed Music Forever)
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Discover the Top 30 Albums of 1973 Based on Sales! 🎶✨
Step back in time to one of the most iconic years in music history as we rank the top 30 albums of 1973 by their sales. From classic rock and pop to groundbreaking sounds that shaped the 70s, this list includes legendary artists and timeless masterpieces.
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Get ready to relive the magic of albums that defined a generation, including chart-topping hits and hidden gems. Did your favorite make the list? Let us know in the comments below!
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Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
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Janis Joplin
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Discover the top 30-selling albums of 1973 in this video that explores the year that changed music forever! See where your favorite albums rank in the 1973 album sales rankings.
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Changed my mind - I like the greatest hits in the count down. If that's what sold, it's what sold. The video is about the top 30 sales, and keeping in the greatest hits keeps it truthful.
@@smartenuphumans thanks man!
_Hello!_ was a UK no. 1 in 1973 for *STATUS QUO* and gave rock music a new direction. 🎸
A wide variety of music here. Probably why I owned half of the albums most of top 10. Changed music forever? Hardly.
Selling england by the pound is not in the top-30 of 1973 sales. Instead, is in the top-1 of quality.
Oui le plus grand album de tous les temps ! Genesis for ever !!!
Ive got twenty out of thirty on vinyl. However 1974 is my favorite yr. overall👍👍
@charlesmckinnon4872 dam, that's awesome 👌
"Brothers and Sisters " by the Allman Brothers Band sold over 7 million copies. They were Band of the Year. They should be on that list!
@jamestomkin8784 the website I'm using only liste japan and usa for some reason. 🤔 you are right 7000000 is what it should be at
and number1 is WHO DO WE THINK WE ARE - DEEP PURPLE!
Rat Bat Blue. Killer
Love that album.
Underappreciated imo
Que agradable saber que MIKE OLDFIELD y PINK FLOYD están en lo mas vendido de ese año !!! ambos son de la corriente ROCK PROGRESIVO y eso es lo que mas me gusta , tambien LED ZEPPELIN !!!
Glad you like the list!
1971 was the year that changed music
I was born that year, hard to argue , haha
@@rockin71 It was a year to remember but if you were there it's hard to remember🚬
@LVVMCMLV Haha. I don't doubt it for a second. Probably how I was conceived. 88 to 93 are a blur in my timeline 😅
There is no a year that changed music. It was long period of time and hard working.
You can't definitively say 1973 changed music forever when 8 of the albums on this list were either live or greatest hits that were originally recorded in previous years.
Springsteen didn't sell squat in '73, sales for his first two albums didn't really start moving till after Born to Run.
In American sales Loggins and Messina belong here somewhere.
Dark Side of The Moon hit the top in most countries, but stalled at no.2 in the U.K.
I'm questioning the accuracy of some of these figures
ChatGPT agrees with your first 2, but not so much after that. Thanks for the video.
Didn't use chatgpt. But thanks
Well... Yessongs is a prog live triple album ... YES is always there....
did people appreciate all the great music that came out that year?
I hope so, new music just is not the same any more. I feel old, haha
And that was just from the first year release!
I wonder what the numbers look like today?
The numbers are all time totals
The beatles 2 compilations sold over 27 million together, after all they sold already in the 1960s.. mega.
The Who "Quadrophenia"!! I have Pink Floyd vinyl. A historical album of all times and peoples!
Don't quiet agree.just.to.name.a few bands.that.i.liked..Pink .Floyd..Doobie Brothers .Deep.Purple.Bad Company.sublime.some really good music coming out now.if you in.to.rock..or.blues.to name a
few Rival Sons..Dirty Honey..Joe Bonamassa..Samantha.Fish..Whiskey Myers.Excellent.
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What about Billion Dollar Babies by Alice Cooper????
@@rickkutyla251 #37 at around 1100000
Lots of greatest hits
DSOTM was Floyds BIG breakthrough album but was a coalescing of themes from previous albums
The US release which really changed Rock forever was the eponymous release by The New York Dolls
As a other post has commented Selling England by the Pound was top quality as was Bowie's Aladdin Sane
Load of crap, everything on TDSOTM is original and doesn't come from other albums.
Clearly you've not listened to anything else by Floyd
Believe it or not
I bought a lot of records during the early 70’s but only a few of the ones on this list. Two of the ones I bought, Band on the run and Goats head soup, I didn’t think were very good. I guess I didn’t think it was a pivotal year.
The greatest hits and compilation are not albums
Is this just what sold back then or album sales to date?
@@dan-ws2sf sales to date.
@ some of this seems accurate and some seem to fall into the no way category
@dan-ws2sf i find alot of sales reporting have probably been manipulated by the record companies. bestsellingalbums.org/ gets their numbers through certification , it's as good as single source that I can find on the internet
Rubbish is an apt description for the garbage they play these days. I can understand people don't listen to music on the radio! 😢😮😢😮
Ok, so you’re saying Quadrophenia didn’t sell at least 3 or 4 million albums? I don’t know, I’m just asking. Seems odd🤔
According to bestsellingalbums.org/ it sold about 1.2 million.
@@rockin71 and this is to date world wide? No friggin way! It’s 2025 and you’re telling me, any Who album, particularly one of the greats, has sold only a million .3 for 52 years?
@ I always admit when I’m wrong and I looked it up, it’s true, astonishingly Quadrophenia only has 1.2 million sold. That’s just nuts to me😳
@dan-ws2sf all good brother, I find some numbers hard to imagine too.
Neil Diamond’s name is misspelled on #7. The last “d” is missing
@@letsgomets95andeveryothery58 Oops, thanks for pointing that out 😁
Schlimm die Musik die dazu läuft 🙈
Haha, thanks. Ill make a note of that.
Den Song finde ich gut....kenne ich leider nicht.
Kann mir jemand helfen?
1967
Il 73 è l'anno di quadrophenia....il resto non conta!
The Who is amazing for sure!
quadrophenia ?
@@danielfields9580 1,200,000 at 32, according to bestsellingalbums.org/
I am not sure how 1973 changed music forever ??
Dark side of the Moon is why i put that in. But i suppose something amazing comes out every year in the 70s and could put that on every year. Judgment call, haha
@@rockin71 Agreed
Barry Manilow Live !?!? Ok not a rock list wish i would nor have clicked
Thanks for watching 👀
The Dark Side..., najlepiej sprzedający się knot wszechczasów!
How about playing clips from these albums instead what you're playing..
@@BlueberryStinkFinger62 copyright issues , it would cost thousands to do that.
LOOKING AT YOUR LIST IS CLEAR 1973 DIDN'T CHANGED PARTICULARLY IN MUSIC !! OLD ROCK ,OLD PROGRESSIVE, OLD POP MUSIC !! LOOK AT 1967 FOR EXEMPLE : FIRST JIMI HENDRIX ALBUM ARE YOU EXPERIENCED - INNOVATIVE! FIRST DOORS ALBUM - THE DOORS- INNOVATIVE! - SG.T PEPPER'S.. OF BEATLES- INNOVATIVE! - FIRST PINK FLOYD - THE PIPER AT THE GATES.. INNOVATIVE ! THE VELVET UNDERGROUND FIRS ALBUM, INNOVATIVE ! IN THE 1973 THE GAMES ARE DONE !
@stefanosensolini2259 why are you yelling, lol. Dark side of the moon is why I put that in the title.
Ну так вас и спрашивают как Призма что-то изменила да ничего она не изменила!
1973 changed music? I suppose you could say that the growth of punk in the early 70's was the start of a downward slide, a slide that eventually led to disco, New Romantics, garage, rap and other such rubbish. The beginning of the era where all creative music Beatles, Led Z, P. Floyd, rock, blues, folk, etc., etc. began to fade away as more young people began to value 'looks' and fashion, instead of talent, musical skill and creativity. Just look where we are now with autotune and singers who can't sing/all sound like clones of each other.
Dark side of the Moon is why i put that in the title, but you make some valid points about the evolution of music and how trends have shifted over the decades. It's fascinating to see how different genres have influenced each other, even if it doesn't always resonate with everyone!
Whilst I agree that the late sixties early seventies saw massive musicality as it's standard bearer I find your remarks about subsequent musical genres a case of self righteous snobbishness I grew up in the era you so love as do I but am not stuck in a time warp.Progressive rock stagnated into technical virtuosity purely for the sake of it eg Tales from Topographic Oceans .
Led Zeppelin admittedly a great band were highly influenced by the blues as were the Rolling Stones.As technology steadily improved bands brought new ideas to listeners eager for innovation that didn't mimic earlier bands.
It could be argued that Kraftwerk are the most important and influential band of all time having identified the fact that pop music could be generated by machines.This spawned, drum and bass, techno, trance and even influenced rap.To malign bands like the wonderful Chic as being rubbish is lazy thinking , not true and self defeating bombast.
What song is playing??
@@nelsonquintino1615 a song i made on the mureka app.
@@rockin71 very good song! i wont down it, please)
@ It is my song so go ahead and download it if you can
@ Also i just uploaded the song on youtube. When I Grew Up
Pointless without the music from the albums.
@billhart9832 impossible to make these for fun with licensing fees
Barry Manilow Live è del 1977? Informarsi !
I think you're correct, my list might need some work 😉
Barry mannilow live came out in 1977, check your references before posting, Lol
@jeffheim8588 i wish this was the first im hearing this. 😅
Sad list. Rock music kinda died after 1971 and morphed into progressive music and pop slop.
The only new rock albums here are Skynyrd and Zeppelin. Pink Floyd is more progressive.
El disco de Barry Manilow es de 1977.
Yup. I screwed up that one
Where’s Grand Funk we’re an American band?
It sold 1,050,830 ranked at 40, Might have to go back and do a top 50
@ when I think back to that year it’s the release I remember most also I lived in Germany back then they were huge there
AI music stupidity
Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂