Editing 1972 in music (section)

===December===
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!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
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|rowspan="1" valign="top" |1
| ''[[Octopus (Gentle Giant album)|Octopus]]'' || [[Gentle Giant]] || UK
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |8
| ''[[Trouble Man (album)|Trouble Man]]'' || [[Marvin Gaye]] || Soundtrack
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |9
| ''[[Hot August Night]]'' || [[Neil Diamond]] || Live
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |11
| ''[[More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies)]]'' || [[The Rolling Stones]] || Compilation
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |15
| ''[[Piledriver (album)|Piledriver]]'' || [[Status Quo (band)|Status Quo]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |22
| ''[[Made in Japan (Deep Purple album)|Made in Japan]]'' || [[Deep Purple]] || Live
|-
|rowspan="10" valign="top" |-
| ''[[Across 110th Street]]'' || [[Bobby Womack]] and [[J.J. Johnson]] || Soundtrack
|-
| ''The Best of Top of the Pops '72'' || [[Top of the Pops (record series)|Top of the Poppers]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[The Grand Wazoo]]'' || [[Frank Zappa]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Gypsy Cowboy]]'' || [[New Riders of the Purple Sage]] ||-
|-
| ''[[It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)]]'' || [[Merle Haggard]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Pleasure (Ohio Players album)|Pleasure]]'' || [[Ohio Players]] ||-
|-
| ''[[R.E.O./T.W.O.]]'' || [[REO Speedwagon]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Sweet's Biggest Hits]]'' || [[The Sweet|Sweet]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Who's Gonna Play This Old Piano?]]'' || [[Jerry Lee Lewis]] ||-
|-
| ''World Woven'' || [[The Ides of March (band)|The Ides of March]] ||-
|-
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