Editing 1978 in music (section)

===October===
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!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" |2
| ''[[Hot Streets]]'' || [[Chicago (band)|Chicago]] ||
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| ''[[M.I.U. Album]]'' || [[The Beach Boys]] ||
|-
| rowspan="4" valign="top" |6
| ''[[25 Years On]]'' || [[Hawkwind]] || as Hawklords
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| ''[[Go 2]]'' || [[XTC]] ||
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| ''[[Pleasure and Pain (Dr. Hook album)|Pleasure and Pain]]'' || [[Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show|Dr. Hook]] ||
|-
| ''[[So Alone (album)|So Alone]]'' || [[Johnny Thunders]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |11
| ''[[52nd Street (album)|52nd Street]]'' || [[Billy Joel]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |12
| ''[[Chaka (album)|Chaka]]'' || [[Chaka Khan]] ||
|-
| rowspan="5" valign="top" |13
| ''[[If You Want Blood You've Got It]]'' || [[AC/DC]]|| Live
|-
| ''[[Photo-Finish]]'' || [[Rory Gallagher]] ||
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| ''[[Comes a Time]]'' || [[Neil Young]]||<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bpi.co.uk/award/1472-261-2|title=BPI}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Christmas Portrait]]'' || [[The Carpenters]] || Christmas
|-
| ''[[Fool Around]]'' || [[Rachel Sweet]] || UK version
|-
| valign="top" |24
| ''[[Hemispheres (Rush album)|Hemispheres]]'' || [[Rush (band)|Rush]] ||
|-
| rowspan="3" valign="top" |27
| ''[[A Single Man (album)|A Single Man]]'' || [[Elton John]] ||
|-
| ''[[Obscure Alternatives]]'' || [[Japan (band)|Japan]] ||
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| ''[[Slade Alive, Vol. 2]]'' || [[Slade]]|| Live
|-
| valign="top" |30
| ''[[Pain Killer (Krokus album)|Pain Killer]]'' || [[Krokus (band)|Krokus]] ||
|-
| valign="top" |31
| ''[[Thoroughfare Gap]]'' || [[Stephen Stills]] ||
|-
| rowspan="19" valign="top" |?
| ''[[Toto (album)|Toto]]'' || [[Toto (band)|Toto]]||
|-
| ''Brass Construction IV'' || [[Brass Construction]] ||
|-
| ''[[Coliseum Rock]]'' || [[Starz (band)|Starz]] ||
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| ''[[Don't Cry Out Loud (Melissa Manchester album)|Don't Cry Out Loud]]'' || [[Melissa Manchester]] ||
|-
| ''[[If You Can't Stand the Heat...]]'' || [[Status Quo (band)|Status Quo]] ||
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| ''[[Inner Secrets]]'' || [[Carlos Santana|Santana]] ||
|-
| ''[[Live! Bootleg]]'' || [[Aerosmith]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Money Talks (The Bar-Kays album)|Money Talks]]'' || [[The Bar-Kays]] ||
|-
| ''[[Music for Films]]'' || [[Brian Eno]] ||
|-
| ''[[New Dimensions]]'' || [[The Three Degrees]] ||
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| ''[[Not Available (album)|Not Available]]'' || [[The Residents]] ||
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| ''[[Playin' to Win]]'' || [[Outlaws (band)|Outlaws]] ||
|-
| ''[[Prehistoric Sounds]]'' || [[The Saints (Australian band)|The Saints]] ||
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| ''[[Private Practice (album)|Private Practice]]'' || [[Dr. Feelgood (band)|Dr. Feelgood]] ||
|-
| ''[[Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)]]'' || [[Captain Beefheart]] ||
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| ''[[Trouble (Whitesnake album)|Trouble]]'' || [[Whitesnake]] ||
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| ''[[Two for the Show (Kansas album)|Two for the Show]]'' || [[Kansas (band)|Kansas]] || Live
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| ''[[Pleasure Train]]'' || [[Teri Desario]] ||
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| ''[[You Had to Be There]]'' || [[Jimmy Buffett]] || Live
|}