Editing 1975 in music

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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1975.
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[[File:LedZeppelinChicago75.jpg|right|thumb|[[Led Zeppelin]] in Chicago, 1975]]
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==Specific locations==
*[[1975 in British music]]
*[[1975 in Norwegian music]]

==Specific genres==
*[[1975 in country music]]
*[[1975 in heavy metal music]]
*[[1975 in jazz]]

==Events==

===January–April===
*[[January 2]] – [[New York City]] U.S. District Court Judge Richard Owen rules that former [[Beatle]] [[John Lennon]] and his lawyers can have access to Department of Immigration files pertaining to his deportation case.
*[[January 5]] – ''[[The Wiz]]'', a new musical version of the classic ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz|Wizard of Oz]]'' story, opens at [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]]'s [[Majestic Theatre (Broadway)|Majestic Theater]] in [[New York City]].
*[[January 6]] – Approximately 1.000 [[Led Zeppelin]] fans, waiting for tickets to go on sale for Led Zeppelin's February 4 concert, cause an estimated $30,000 in damage to the lobby of the Boston Garden. The fans reportedly broke chairs and doors and caused other damage to the building. [[Boston Mayor]] [[Kevin White (mayor)|Kevin White]] cancels the upcoming show.
*[[January 8]] – Three Led Zeppelin concerts at [[Madison Square Garden]] sell out in a record four hours.
*[[January 12]] – "The Warner Brothers Music Show" begins a nine-city, 18-show tour of Europe. The tour included [[Warner Bros. Records|Warner Brothers]] acts [[Little Feat]], [[Tower of Power]], [[the Doobie Brothers]], [[Bonaroo (band)|Bonaroo]], [[Montrose (band)|Montrose]], and [[Graham Central Station]].
*[[January 24]] – [[Jazz]] [[pianist]] [[Keith Jarrett]] plays the solo [[improvisation]] '[[The Köln Concert]]' at the [[Cologne Opera]], which, recorded live, becomes the best-selling piano recording in history.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php?id=7984 |title=Keith Jarrett – Biography |work=[[All About Jazz]] |access-date=9 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110318092416/http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php?id=7984 |archive-date=18 March 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[February 13]] – The film ''[[Slade In Flame]]'', starring the members of [[Slade]], premieres at the Metropole Theatre in London.
*[[February 21]] – [[John Lennon]] releases his ''[[Rock 'n' Roll (John Lennon album)|Rock 'n' Roll]]'' LP, featuring his favorite rock songs from the 1950s. To promote the album he conducts a telephone interview with 20 rock radio stations simultaneously.
*[[March 1]] – The [[17th Annual Grammy Awards]] are presented in [[New York City|New York]], hosted by [[Andy Williams]]. [[Stevie Wonder]]'s ''[[Fulfillingness' First Finale]]'' wins [[Grammy Award for Album of the Year|Album of the Year]], [[Olivia Newton-John]]'s "[[I Honestly Love You]]" wins [[Record of the Year]] and [[Barbra Streisand]]'s "[[The Way We Were (song)|The Way We Were]]" wins [[Grammy Award for Song of the Year|Song of the Year]]. [[Marvin Hamlisch]] wins [[Best New Artist]]. 
*[[March 2]] – Los Angeles Police make a routine traffic stop that turns out to be [[Paul McCartney]] and his wife [[Linda McCartney|Linda]]. Linda is arrested for having 170 to 225&nbsp;grams (six to eight ounces) of [[marijuana]] in her pocketbook.
*[[March 21]] – [[Alice Cooper]], now a solo artist, begins the ''[[Welcome to My Nightmare]]'' tour in [[Kalamazoo, Michigan]]. The elaborate show is among the largest stage spectacles of the decade.
*[[March 22]] – In the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1975|Eurovision Song Contest]] in [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]], the Dutch group [[Teach-In (band)|Teach-In]] wins with the song ''"[[Ding-A-Dong]]"''.
*[[March 23]] – Promoter [[Bill Graham (promoter)|Bill Graham]] stages the S.N.A.C.K. (Students Need Athletics, Culture and Kicks) charity concert at [[Kezar Stadium]] in [[San Francisco, California]], to benefit the city's educational system. Almost 60,000 people come to see [[The Grateful Dead]], [[The Doobie Brothers]], [[Santana (band)|Santana]], [[Jefferson Starship]], [[Tower of Power]], [[Eddie Palmieri]], [[Joan Baez]], [[Graham Central Station]] and [[Neil Young]] joined by members of [[The Band]] along with a surprise appearance by [[Bob Dylan]]. It's the largest benefit concert in history to date.
*[[March 26]] – The film version of [[The Who]]'s ''[[Tommy (1975 film)|Tommy]]'' premieres in [[London]].
*[[March 29]] – [[Jeff Beck]] releases the album ''[[Blow by Blow]]''. It is the first album to be released using just his name.
*[[April 3]] – [[Steve Miller (musician)|Steve Miller]] is arrested and charged with setting fire to the clothes and personal effects of a friend, Benita DiOrio, and resisting arrest. DiOrio drops the charges the following day.
*[[April 7]] – [[Ritchie Blackmore]] plays a final show with [[Deep Purple]] in Paris before quitting to form his own group, [[Rainbow (English band)|Rainbow]].
*[[April 17]] – Cambodian singer-songwriter [[Sinn Sisamouth]] and his pregnant wife are among millions forced out of [[Phnom Penh]] by the Khmer Rouge.
*[[April 24]] – [[Pete Ham]], founder of the group [[Badfinger]], is found hanged in his London garage. His death is ruled a suicide.
*[[April 25]] – [[Alice Cooper]]'s first television special with special guest [[Vincent Price]], ''Welcome to My Nightmare: The Making of a Record Album'' airs on [[ABC's Wide World of Entertainment|ABC's Wide World]] In Concert, part of a short-lived late night variety series.
*[[April 28]] – [[Tom Snyder]] interviews [[John Lennon]] on the ''[[The Tomorrow Show|Tomorrow Show]]''.

===May–August===
*[[May 1]] – [[The Rolling Stones]] announce their forthcoming North American tour by performing ''[[Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones song)|Brown Sugar]]'' from a flatbed truck on [[Fifth Avenue]] in [[New York City]]. The occasion was guitarist [[Ronnie Wood]]'s debut with the band.
*[[May 10]] – [[Stevie Wonder]] performs before 125,000 people at the [[Washington Monument]] as part of ''Human Kindness Day'' festivities.
*[[June 1]] – [[The Rolling Stones]] open their North American Tour in [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana]].
*[[June 20]] – [[Talking Heads]] perform their first show at [[CBGB]] in New York.
*[[June 23]] – [[Alice Cooper]] falls off the stage during a concert in [[Vancouver]], [[Canada]], breaking six ribs.
*[[June 24]] – "[[Gens du pays]]", the unofficial national anthem of Quebec, is performed for the first time by [[Gilles Vigneault]] in a concert on Montreal's Mount Royal.
*[[June 30]] – [[Cher]] and [[Gregg Allman]] are married in a [[Las Vegas Valley|Las Vegas]] hotel suite. That same day, [[The Jackson 5]] leave [[Motown]] for [[Sony Music|CBS Records]], but the brothers are forced to change their name to The Jacksons because Motown owns the Jackson 5 name. [[Jermaine Jackson]] stays with Motown when his brothers break their contracts and leave for CBS; he is replaced by youngest Jackson brother [[Randy Jackson (The Jacksons)|Randy]] as a result.
*[[July 4]] – The [[Texas Senate]] declares the Fourth of July "[[Willie Nelson]] Day", as more than 70,000 fans visit [[Liberty Hill, Texas|Liberty Hill]] for the third [[Willie Nelson's Fourth of July Picnic|annual picnic]] and country rock show headlined by Willie himself.
*[[August 4]] – [[Robert Plant]] and his wife Maureen are seriously injured in a car accident while vacationing on the Greek island of [[Rhodes]]. The immediate future of [[Led Zeppelin]] is cast into doubt, as Plant will not recover for quite some time.
*[[August 9]]
**The [[Bee Gees]] begin their mid-1970s international comeback when "[[Jive Talkin']]" reaches #1 and goes platinum with sales over 1 million.
**[[Renato Carosone]]'s comeback concert after a 15-year retirement.
**The first [[Rock Music Awards]], produced by [[Don Kirshner]], are held in Los Angeles, co-hosted by [[Elton John]] and [[Diana Ross]]. John wins "Outstanding Rock Personality of the Year". The Who's film ''[[Tommy (1975 film)|Tommy]]'' wins "Rock Movie of the Year". 
*[[August 23]] – [[Peter Gabriel]] leaves British progressive rock group [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]].

===September–December===
*[[September 12]] – [[Pink Floyd]] releases their ninth album, ''[[Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album)|Wish You Were Here]]''.
*[[September 29]] – Singer [[Jackie Wilson]] suffers a massive [[heart attack]] while performing on stage in [[Cherry Hill, New Jersey]]. He survives but never physically recovers.
*[[October 3]] – [[The Who]] release their seventh studio album, ''[[The Who By Numbers]]''.
*[[October 7]] – [[John Lennon]] finally wins his battle to stay in the [[United States]] after the [[New York Court of Appeals]] overturns Lennon's 1972 deportation order.
*[[October 9]]
**<!--October 9-->[[John Lennon]] and [[Yoko Ono]] become parents of [[Sean Ono Lennon]] at 2:00 AM. The birth heralds the beginning of John's temporary retirement from the music business as he vows to devote himself to family for the next five years.
**<!--October 9--->Rock band [[Kiss (band)|Kiss]] earns publicity by playing the [[homecoming dance]] of [[Cadillac High School]] in [[Cadillac, Michigan]].
*[[October 11]] – [[Bruce Springsteen]] appears at the Monmouth Arts Center (Count Basie Theater) for The Homecoming Concert.
*[[October 18]] – [[Simon & Garfunkel]] reunite on the second-ever episode of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' on NBC, performing "[[The Boxer]]", "[[Scarborough Fair (ballad)|Scarborough Fair]]", and new collaboration "[[My Little Town]]".
*[[October 27]] – [[Bruce Springsteen]] appears on the covers of both ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' and ''[[Newsweek]]'' magazines on the same week.
*[[October 30]] – [[Bob Dylan]]'s [[Rolling Thunder Revue]] tour begins with a concert at [[Memorial Hall (Plymouth, Massachusetts)|Memorial Hall]] in [[Plymouth, Massachusetts]].
*[[November 6]] – The [[Sex Pistols]] play their first concert at [[Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design|St. Martin's School of Art]] in [[London]].
*[[November 10]] – [[Lev Leshchenko]] revives "[[Den Pobedy]]", one of the most popular World War II songs in the [[Soviet Union]].
*[[November 21]] – [[Queen (band)|Queen's]] "[[Bohemian Rhapsody]]" goes to number one in the [[U.K.]], where it remains for five weeks of 1975 and four weeks of 1976.
*[[December 6]] – [[The Who]] set the record for largest indoor concert at the [[Pontiac Silverdome]], attended by 78,000 fans.
*[[December 10]] – The [[John Denver]] holiday special ''Rocky Mountain Christmas'' airs on ABC.
*[[December 18]] – The official break-up of [[Faces (band)|Faces]] is announced at a London press conference. [[Rod Stewart]] will continue his solo career while [[Ronnie Wood]] is widely expected to be announced as an official member of [[The Rolling Stones]] in the near future.
*[[December 24]] – The first issue of ''[[Punk (magazine)|Punk]]'' magazine is released with a January 1976 cover date. A drawing of [[Lou Reed]] is on the cover.
*[[December 25]] – Bassist [[Steve Harris (musician)|Steve Harris]] forms [[Iron Maiden]], drawing the name from a torture device mentioned in ''[[The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later|The Man in the Iron Mask]]''.
*[[December 31]] 
**<!--December 31--> The fourth annual ''[[New Year's Rockin' Eve]]'' airs on ABC, with performances by [[Average White Band]], [[Melissa Manchester]], [[Freddy Fender]], and [[Neil Sedaka]].
**<!--December 31--> [[Elvis Presley]] performs before the biggest audience of his career, at [[Pontiac, Michigan]]'s Silverdome. During the show, Elvis rips his pants onstage and has to leave to change.

== Also in 1975 ==
*[[John Rutter]] becomes Director of Music at [[Clare College, Cambridge]].
*[[Billy Davis Jr.]] and [[Marilyn McCoo]] leave [[the 5th Dimension]] and start solo careers.
*[[The Goodies]] have five top twenty singles (in the UK) becoming, according to [[Bill Oddie]], "the first, the only and the most successful comedy rockers".
*[[Ramones]] sign to [[Sire Records]].
*First release of "[[And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda]]", by John Currie, on Australian label M7.

==Bands formed==
*''See [[:Category:Musical groups established in 1975|Musical groups established in 1975]]''

==Bands disbanded==
[[File:Rod Stewart and Ron Wood - Faces - 1975.jpg|right|thumb|[[Ronnie Wood]] and [[Rod Stewart]] with "Faces" in 1975, the year the band disbanded.]]
*''See [[:Category:Musical groups disestablished in 1975|Musical groups disestablished in 1975]]''

==Albums released==

===January===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |8
| ''[[Promised Land (Elvis Presley album)|Promised Land]]'' || [[Elvis Presley]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |16
| ''[[Forever, Michael]]'' || [[Michael Jackson]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |20
| ''[[Blood on the Tracks]]'' || [[Bob Dylan]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |23
| ''[[Never Can Say Goodbye (Gloria Gaynor album)|Never Can Say Goodbye]]'' || [[Gloria Gaynor]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |29
| ''[[An Evening with John Denver]]'' || [[John Denver]] || Live
|-
|rowspan="15" valign="top" |-
| ''[[Commoners Crown]]'' || [[Steeleye Span]] ||-
|-
| ''Don't Cha Love It'' || [[The Miracles]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Down by the Jetty]]'' || [[Dr. Feelgood (band)|Dr. Feelgood]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The First Minute of a New Day]]'' || [[Gil Scott-Heron]] and [[Brian Jackson (musician)|Brian Jackson]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Flavours (The Guess Who album)|Flavours]]'' || [[The Guess Who]] ||-
|-
| ''It's Time'' || [[Bonnie Bramlett]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Melissa (Melissa Manchester album)|Melissa]]'' || [[Melissa Manchester]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Modern Times (Al Stewart album)|Modern Times]]'' || [[Al Stewart]] ||-
|-
| ''New Year, New Band, New Company'' || [[John Mayall]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Picture Music]]'' || [[Klaus Schulze]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Play Don't Worry]]'' || [[Mick Ronson]] ||-
|-
| ''Plug Me Into Something'' || [[Henry Gross]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Scorching Beauty]]'' || [[Iron Butterfly]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Sunday's Child]]'' || [[John Martyn]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Urban Renewal (Tower of Power album)|Urban Renewal]]'' || [[Tower of Power]] ||-
|-
|}

===February===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |7
| ''[[Mister Magic]]'' || [[Grover Washington, Jr.]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Pieces of the Sky]]'' || [[Emmylou Harris]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |12
| ''[[Have You Never Been Mellow]]'' || [[Olivia Newton-John]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |14
| ''[[Fly by Night (album)|Fly by Night]]'' || [[Rush (band)|Rush]] ||-
|-
| ''[[On the Level]]'' || [[Status Quo (band)|Status Quo]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |16
| ''[[Bolan's Zip Gun]]'' || [[T.Rex (band)|T.Rex]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="3" valign="top" |17
| ''[[High Voltage (1975 album)|High Voltage]]'' || [[AC/DC]] || Australia-only; Debut
|-
| ''[[Rock 'n' Roll (John Lennon album)|Rock 'n' Roll]]'' || [[John Lennon]] || Covers album
|-
| ''[[The Bargain Store]]'' || [[Dolly Parton]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |21
| ''[[Desperate Straights]]'' || [[Slapp Happy]] and [[Henry Cow]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |24
| ''[[Physical Graffiti]]'' || [[Led Zeppelin]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |27
| ''[[On Your Feet or on Your Knees]]'' || [[Blue Öyster Cult]] || Live
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |28
| ''[[Welcome to My Nightmare]]'' || [[Alice Cooper]] ||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bpi.co.uk/award/8109-3708-2|title=BPI}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Yesterdays (Yes album)|Yesterdays]]'' || [[Yes (band)|Yes]] || Compilation
|-
|rowspan="12" valign="top" |-
| ''[[Ambrosia (album)|Ambrosia]]'' || [[Ambrosia (band)|Ambrosia]] || Debut Album
|-
| ''[[Changing Woman (album)|Changing Woman]]'' || [[Buffy Sainte-Marie]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Cold on the Shoulder (Gordon Lightfoot album)|Cold on the Shoulder]]'' || [[Gordon Lightfoot]] ||-
|-
| ''Dixie Rock'' || [[Wet Willie]] ||-
|-
| ''[[For Earth Below]]'' || [[Robin Trower]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Mad Dog (album)|Mad Dog]]'' || [[John Entwistle]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Really Rosie]]'' || [[Carole King]] || Soundtrack
|-
| ''[[Song for America]]'' || [[Kansas (band)|Kansas]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Street Rats]]'' || [[Humble Pie]] ||-
|-
| ''Then Came You'' || [[Dionne Warwick]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Unrequited (album)|Unrequited]]'' || [[Loudon Wainwright III]] || Studio and live
|-
| ''[[Visions of the Emerald Beyond]]'' || [[Mahavishnu Orchestra]] ||-
|-
|}

===March===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |3
| ''[[That's the Way of the World]]'' || [[Earth, Wind & Fire]] || Soundtrack<ref name=RIAA>{{cite web|url=https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=+Earth%2C+Wind+%26+Fire&ti=That%27s+The+Way+Of+The+World&lab=&genre=&format=Album&date_option=release&from=&to=&award=M&type=&category=&adv=SEARCH#search_section|title=Earth, Wind & Fire: That's The Way Of The World|publisher=[[RIAA]]|website=riaa.com}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan="3" valign="top" |7
| ''[[Young Americans]]'' || [[David Bowie]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Best Years of Our Lives (Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel album)|The Best Years of Our Lives]]'' || [[Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Rotters' Club (album)|The Rotters' Club]]'' || [[Hatfield and the North]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |14
| ''[[Blue Jays (album)|Blue Jays]]'' || [[Justin Hayward]] and [[John Lodge (musician)|John Lodge]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |15
| ''[[Funny Lady (soundtrack)|Funny Lady]]'' || [[Barbra Streisand]] || Soundtrack
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |17
| ''[[Judith (album)|Judith]]'' || [[Judy Collins]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="3" valign="top" |19
| ''[[Dressed to Kill (album)|Dressed to Kill]]'' || [[Kiss (band)|Kiss]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Hearts (America album)|Hearts]]'' || [[America (band)|America]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Tommy (soundtrack)|Tommy]]'' || Various Artists || Soundtrack
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |21
| ''[[Rubycon (album)|Rubycon]]'' || [[Tangerine Dream]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="3" valign="top" |24
| ''[[Chicago VIII]]'' || [[Chicago (band)|Chicago]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Nuthin' Fancy]]'' || [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Specs Appeal]]'' || [[The Shadows]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |25
| ''[[Just Another Way to Say I Love You]]'' || [[Barry White]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Slow Dazzle (album)|Slow Dazzle]]'' || [[John Cale]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |26
| ''[[A Quiet Storm]]'' || [[Smokey Robinson]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |27
| ''[[The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table]]'' || [[Rick Wakeman]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="3" valign="top" |28
| ''[[Blow by Blow]]'' || [[Jeff Beck]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Straight Shooter (Bad Company album)|Straight Shooter]]'' || [[Bad Company]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Ian Hunter (album)|Ian Hunter]]'' || [[Ian Hunter (singer)|Ian Hunter]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="22" valign="top" |-
| ''[[Katy Lied]]'' || [[Steely Dan]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Lou Reed Live]]'' || [[Lou Reed]] || Live
|-
| ''[[The Original Soundtrack]]'' || [[10cc]] || –
|-
| ''[[Frampton (album)|Frampton]]'' || [[Peter Frampton]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Bundles (album)|Bundles]]'' || [[Soft Machine]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Switch (Golden Earring album)|Switch]]'' || [[Golden Earring]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Sweet Deceiver]]'' || [[Kevin Ayers]] ||-
|-
| ''[[There's One in Every Crowd]]'' || [[Eric Clapton]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Two Sides of the Moon]]'' || [[Keith Moon]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Between the Lines (Janis Ian album)|Between the Lines]]'' || [[Janis Ian]] ||-
|-
| ''Songbird'' || [[Jesse Colin Young]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Duit on Mon Dei]]'' || [[Harry Nilsson]] ||-
|-
| ''Feelings'' || [[Paul Anka]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Feel Like Makin' Love (album)|Feel Like Makin' Love]]'' || [[Roberta Flack]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Go Girl Crazy!]]'' || [[The Dictators]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Great Fatsby]]'' || [[Leslie West]] ||-
|-
| ''[[I'll Play for You]]'' || [[Seals & Crofts]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Let There Be Music]]'' || [[Orleans (band)|Orleans]] ||-
|-
| ''Spring Fever'' || [[Rick Derringer]] ||-
|-
|}

===April===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |1
| ''[[Journey (Journey album)|Journey]]'' || [[Journey (band)|Journey]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |2
| ''[[The Manhattan Transfer (album)|The Manhattan Transfer]]'' || [[The Manhattan Transfer]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |7
| ''[[Will O' the Wisp (album)|Will O' The Wisp]]'' || [[Leon Russell]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |8
| ''[[Toys in the Attic (album)|Toys in the Attic]]'' || [[Aerosmith]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Chocolate City (album)|Chocolate City]]'' || [[Parliament (band)|Parliament]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |11
| ''[[Fish Rising]]'' || [[Steve Hillage]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |14
| ''[[Spirit of America (The Beach Boys album)|Spirit of America]]'' || [[The Beach Boys]] || Compilation
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |16
| ''[[Playing Possum]]'' || [[Carly Simon]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |18
| ''[[Fandango!]]'' || [[ZZ Top]] || Half live/half studio
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |21
| ''[[ABBA (album)|ABBA]]'' || [[ABBA]] ||<ref>{{Cite book|title=Guinness Book of Rock Stars|last1=Rees|first1=Dafydd|last2=Crampton|first2=Luke|publisher=Guinness Publishing Ltd.|year=1991|isbn=0-85112-971-4|location=Enfield|pages=1}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Let's Take It to the Stage]]'' || [[Funkadelic]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |22
| ''[[Jamaica Say You Will]]'' || [[Joe Cocker]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |25
| ''[[Stampede (The Doobie Brothers album)|Stampede]]'' || [[The Doobie Brothers]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Snow Goose (album)|The Snow Goose]]'' || [[Camel (band)|Camel]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="18" valign="top" |-
| ''[[USA (King Crimson album)|USA]]'' || [[King Crimson]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Hair of the Dog (album)|Hair of the Dog]]'' || [[Nazareth (band)|Nazareth]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Stars (Cher album)|Stars]]'' || [[Cher]] ||-
|-
| ''Ain't Life Grand'' || [[Black Oak Arkansas]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Al Green's Greatest Hits]]'' || [[Al Green]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[The Beau Brummels (album)|The Beau Brummels]]'' || [[The Beau Brummels]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Beautiful Loser]]'' || [[Bob Seger]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Diamonds & Rust]]'' || [[Joan Baez]] ||-
|-
| ''Discothèque'' || [[Herbie Mann]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Hokey Pokey (album)|Hokey Pokey]]'' || [[Richard Thompson (musician)|Richard]] and [[Linda Thompson (singer)|Linda Thompson]] ||-
|-
| ''[[New City (album)|New City]]'' || [[Blood, Sweat & Tears]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Subtle as a Flying Mallet]]'' || [[Dave Edmunds]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Survival (The O'Jays album)|Survival]]'' || [[The O'Jays]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Tomorrow Belongs to Me (album)|Tomorrow Belongs to Me]]'' || [[Sensational Alex Harvey Band]] ||-
|-
|}

===May===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |1
| ''[[Coming Down Your Way]]'' || [[Three Dog Night]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Your Mamma Won't Like Me]]'' || [[Suzi Quatro]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |5
| ''[[Newborn (album)|Newborn]]'' || [[James Gang]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |7
| ''[[Today (Elvis Presley album)|Today]]'' || [[Elvis Presley]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |9
| ''[[Warrior on the Edge of Time]]'' || [[Hawkwind]] ||-
|-
| ''[[In Praise of Learning]]'' || [[Henry Cow]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |15
| ''[[Moving Violation]]'' || [[Jackson 5]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |16
| ''[[Soap Opera (album)|Soap Opera]]'' || [[The Kinks]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |19
| ''[[Steppin']]'' || [[Pointer Sisters]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |22
| ''[[Adventures in Paradise (Minnie Riperton album)|Adventures in Paradise]]'' || [[Minnie Riperton]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="3" valign="top" |23
| ''[[Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy]]'' || [[Elton John]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Initiation (Todd Rundgren album)|Initiation]]'' || [[Todd Rundgren]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Love Will Keep Us Together (album)|Love Will Keep Us Together]]'' || [[Captain & Tennille]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |30
| ''[[Venus and Mars (Wings album)|Venus and Mars]]'' || [[Wings (band)|Wings]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="10" valign="top" |-
| ''[[America's Choice]]'' || [[Hot Tuna]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Gorilla (James Taylor album)|Gorilla]]'' || [[James Taylor]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Ernie Sings & Glen Picks]]'' || [[Tennessee Ernie Ford]] and [[Glen Campbell]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Four Wheel Drive (album)|Four Wheel Drive]]'' || [[Bachman–Turner Overdrive]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Once Upon a Star]]'' || [[Bay City Rollers]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Red Headed Stranger]]'' || [[Willie Nelson]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard]]'' || [[Robert Wyatt]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Spirit of '76 (album)|Spirit of '76]]'' || [[Spirit (band)|Spirit]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Tale Spinnin']]'' || [[Weather Report]] ||-
|-
| ''[[There's No Place Like America Today]]'' || [[Curtis Mayfield]] ||-
|-
|}

===June===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |6
| ''[[Made in the Shade]]'' || [[The Rolling Stones]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Metamorphosis (The Rolling Stones album)|Metamorphosis]]'' || [[The Rolling Stones]] || Outtakes recorded 1964–70
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |10
| ''[[One of These Nights]]'' || [[Eagles (band)|Eagles]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |13
| ''[[Red Octopus]]'' || [[Jefferson Starship]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Return to Fantasy]]'' || [[Uriah Heep (band)|Uriah Heep]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |16
| ''[[Why Can't We Be Friends?]]'' || [[War (U.S. band)|War]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="3" valign="top" |20
| ''[[Greatest Hits (Cat Stevens album)|Greatest Hits]]'' || [[Cat Stevens]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[It's My Pleasure]]'' || [[Billy Preston]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Tonight's the Night (Neil Young album)|Tonight's the Night]]'' || [[Neil Young]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |23
| ''[[Stills (Stephen Stills album)|Stills]]'' || [[Stephen Stills]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |25
| ''[[One Size Fits All (Frank Zappa album)|One Size Fits All]]'' || [[Frank Zappa]] and [[The Mothers of Invention]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |26
| ''[[The Basement Tapes]]'' || [[Bob Dylan]] & [[The Band]] || Recorded 1967–75
|-
| rowspan="13" valign="top" | -
| ''[[Cut the Cake (album)|Cut the Cake]]'' || [[Average White Band]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Stand Back (April Wine album)|Stand Back]]'' || [[April Wine]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Dream Weaver]]'' || [[Gary Wright]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Dreaming My Dreams (Waylon Jennings album)|Dreaming My Dreams]]'' || [[Waylon Jennings]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Heat Is On (album)|The Heat Is On]]'' || [[The Isley Brothers]] ||-
|-
| ''The Hit Man'' || [[Eddie Kendricks]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Horizon (The Carpenters album)|Horizon]]'' || [[The Carpenters]] ||-
|-
| ''[[HQ (album)|HQ]]'' || [[Roy Harper (singer)|Roy Harper]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Jasmine Nightdreams]]'' || [[Edgar Winter]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Main Course]]'' || [[Bee Gees]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Rising for the Moon]]'' || [[Fairport Convention]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Trying to Burn the Sun]]'' || [[Elf (band)|Elf]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Tubes (album)|The Tubes]]'' || [[The Tubes]] ||-
|-
|}

===July===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |1
| ''[[Trooper (album)|Trooper]]'' || [[Trooper (band)|Trooper]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |4
| ''[[Ride a Rock Horse]]'' || [[Roger Daltrey]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |11
| ''[[Fleetwood Mac (1975 album)|Fleetwood Mac]]'' || [[Fleetwood Mac]] ||US
|-
| ''[[From Mighty Oaks]]'' || [[Ray Thomas]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |28
| ''[[Free Hand]]'' || [[Gentle Giant]] || US
|-
| ''[[Sabotage (Black Sabbath album)|Sabotage]]'' || [[Black Sabbath]] || US
|-
|rowspan="18" valign="top" |-
| ''[[KC and the Sunshine Band (album)|KC and the Sunshine Band]]'' || [[KC and the Sunshine Band]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Now Look]]'' || [[Ronnie Wood]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Ego Is Not a Dirty Word]]'' || [[Skyhooks (band)|Skyhooks]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Fire on the Bayou]]'' || [[The Meters]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Force It]]'' || [[UFO (band)|UFO]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Futurama (Be-Bop Deluxe album)|Futurama]]'' || [[Be-Bop Deluxe]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Half a Love]]'' || [[The Chi-Lites]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Head over Heels (Poco album)|Head over Heels]]'' || [[Poco (band)|Poco]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Higher They Climb]]'' || [[David Cassidy]] ||-
|-
| ''[[In the City (Tavares album)|In the City]]'' || [[Tavares (band)|Tavares]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Metal Machine Music]]'' || [[Lou Reed]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Outlaws (Outlaws album)|Outlaws]]'' || [[Outlaws (band)|Outlaws]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Power in the Music]]'' || [[The Guess Who]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Rhinestone Cowboy (album)|Rhinestone Cowboy]]'' || [[Glen Campbell]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Scheherazade and Other Stories]]'' || [[Renaissance (band)|Renaissance]] ||-
|-
| ''Sha Na Now'' || [[Sha Na Na]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Stop (Eric Burdon Band album)|Stop]]'' || [[Eric Burdon|Eric Burdon Band]] ||-
|-
| ''[[This Time We Mean It]]'' || [[REO Speedwagon]] ||-
|-
|
|''[[Armageddon (Armageddon album)|Armageddon]]''
|[[Armageddon (A&M band)|Armageddon]]
|
|-
|}

===August===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |15
| ''[[Atlantic Crossing]]'' || [[Rod Stewart]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |18
| ''[[Daryl Hall & John Oates (album)|Daryl Hall & John Oates]]'' || [[Hall & Oates]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |19
| ''[[Phoenix (Labelle album)|Phoenix]]'' || [[Labelle]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |20
| ''[[Deluxe (Harmonia album)|Deluxe]]'' || [[Harmonia (band)|Harmonia]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |22
| ''[[Man-Child]]'' || [[Herbie Hancock]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Nightingales & Bombers]]'' || [[Manfred Mann's Earth Band]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |27
| ''[[Love to Love You Baby (album)|Love to Love You Baby]]'' || [[Donna Summer]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |28
| ''[[The Best of Michael Jackson]]'' || [[Michael Jackson]] || Compilation
|-
|rowspan="14" valign="top" |-
| ''[[Acid Queen]]'' || [[Tina Turner]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Al Green Is Love]]'' || [[Al Green]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Caught in the Act (Grand Funk Railroad album)|Caught in the Act]]'' || [[Grand Funk Railroad]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Dreamboat Annie]]'' || [[Heart (band)|Heart]] || Canada; released in US Feb. '76
|-
| ''[[E. C. Was Here]]'' || [[Eric Clapton]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Honey (Ohio Players album)|Honey]]'' || [[Ohio Players]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Mellow Madness]]'' || [[Quincy Jones]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Pick of the Litter (The Spinners album)|Pick of the Litter]]'' || [[The Spinners (American band)|The Spinners]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Searchin' for a Rainbow]]'' || [[The Marshall Tucker Band]] ||-
|-
| ''[[So Fine (Loggins and Messina album)|So Fine]]'' || [[Loggins & Messina]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Spirit of the Boogie]]'' || [[Kool & The Gang]] ||-
|-
| ''Stamp Album'' || [[Climax Blues Band]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Timewind]]'' || [[Klaus Schulze]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Win, Lose or Draw (album)|Win, Lose or Draw]]'' || [[The Allman Brothers Band]] ||-
|-
|}

===September===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |1
| ''[[Born to Run]]'' || [[Bruce Springsteen]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Blues for Allah]]'' || [[Grateful Dead]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |5
| ''[[Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow]]'' || [[Rainbow (English band)|Rainbow]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Minstrel in the Gallery]]'' || [[Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |10
| ''[[Alive! (Kiss album)|Alive!]]'' || [[Kiss (band)|Kiss]] || Live
|-
|rowspan="3" valign="top" |12
| ''[[Fighting (Thin Lizzy album)|Fighting]]'' || [[Thin Lizzy]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Second Chapter]]'' || [[Danny Kirwan]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album)|Wish You Were Here]]'' || [[Pink Floyd]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |15
| ''[[Fool for the City]]'' || [[Foghat]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Wind on the Water]]'' || [[Crosby & Nash]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |17
| ''[[In Trance]]'' || [[Scorpions (band)|Scorpions]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |22
| ''[[Extra Texture (Read All About It)]]'' || [[George Harrison]] || U.S. release. 3 October in U.K.
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |24
| ''[[Caress of Steel]]'' || [[Rush (band)|Rush]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |27
| ''[[Portrait Gallery (album)|Portrait Gallery]]'' || [[Harry Chapin]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |30
| ''[[Clearly Love]]'' || [[Olivia Newton-John]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="25" valign="top" |-
| ''[[Another Green World]]'' || [[Brian Eno]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Another Year (Leo Sayer album)|Another Year]]'' || [[Leo Sayer]] ||-
|-
| ''Artful Dodger'' || [[Artful Dodger (U.S. band)|Artful Dodger]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Bandolier (album)|Bandolier]]'' || [[Budgie (band)|Budgie]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Bay City Rollers (album)|Bay City Rollers]]'' || [[Bay City Rollers]] || Compilation; North America debut
|-
| ''[[Captured Angel]]'' || [[Dan Fogelberg]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Car Over the Lake Album]]'' || [[The Ozark Mountain Daredevils]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Changing All the Time]]'' || [[Smokie (band)|Smokie]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Face the Music (Electric Light Orchestra album)|Face the Music]]'' || [[Electric Light Orchestra]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Hotline (J. Geils Band album)|Hotline]]'' || [[The J. Geils Band]] ||-
|-
| ''[[In the Slot]]'' || [[Tower of Power]] ||-
|-
| ''[[John Fogerty (album)|John Fogerty]]'' || [[John Fogerty]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Landed (album)|Landed]]'' || [[Can (band)|Can]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Masque (Kansas album)|Masque]]'' || [[Kansas (band)|Kansas]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Maximum Darkness]]'' || [[Man (band)|Man]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Prisoner in Disguise]]'' || [[Linda Ronstadt]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Procol's Ninth]]'' || [[Procol Harum]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Sound of Sunshine]]'' || [[KC and the Sunshine Band|The Sunshine Band]] || Instrumental
|-
| ''[[Symphonion Dream]]'' || [[Nitty Gritty Dirt Band]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Ted Nugent (album)|Ted Nugent]]'' || [[Ted Nugent]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Thirteen Blue Magic Lane]]'' || [[Blue Magic (band)|Blue Magic]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Warner Bros. Presents (Montrose album)|Warner Bros. Presents]]'' || [[Montrose (band)|Montrose]] ||-
|-
| ''Waterbed'' || [[Herbie Mann]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Windsong]]'' || [[John Denver]] ||-
|-
| ''X-Rated'' || [[Black Oak Arkansas]] ||-
|-
|}

===October===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |1
| ''[[Tryin' to Get the Feeling]]'' || [[Barry Manilow]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |2
| ''[[Bongo Fury]]'' || [[Frank Zappa]] & [[The Mothers of Invention]] with [[Captain Beefheart]] || Live + some studio tracks
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |3
| ''[[The Who by Numbers]]'' || [[The Who]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |10
| ''[[Godbluff]]'' || [[Van der Graaf Generator]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |14
| ''[[Breakaway (Art Garfunkel album)|Breakaway]]'' || [[Art Garfunkel]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |16
| ''[[You (Aretha Franklin album)|You]]'' || [[Aretha Franklin]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |17
| ''[[Still Crazy After All These Years]]'' || [[Paul Simon]] ||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bpi.co.uk/award/6288-3439-2|title=BPI}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |20
| ''[[Shaved Fish]]'' || [[John Lennon]] || Compilation
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |24
| ''[[Siren (Roxy Music album)|Siren]]'' || [[Roxy Music]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Rock of the Westies]]'' || [[Elton John]] ||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=Elton+John&ti=Rock+of+the+Westies&format=Album&type=#search_section|title=RIAA}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |27
| ''[[Angel (Angel album)|Angel]]'' || [[Angel (American band)|Angel]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |31
| ''[[Ommadawn]]'' || [[Mike Oldfield]] ||<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/greatrockdiscogr00stro/page/603/mode/2up|page=603|title=The Great Rock Discography|year=1995 |isbn=9780862415419 |last1=Strong |first1=Martin Charles }}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Against the Grain (Rory Gallagher album)|Against the Grain]]'' || [[Rory Gallagher]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="25" valign="top" | -
| ''[[Mother Focus]]'' || [[Focus (band)|Focus]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Movin' On (Commodores album)|Movin' On]]'' || [[Commodores]] ||-
|-
| ''[[All Around My Hat (album)|All Around My Hat]]'' || [[Steeleye Span]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Flying Again]]'' || [[The Flying Burrito Brothers]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Indiscreet (Sparks album)|Indiscreet]]'' || [[Sparks (band)|Sparks]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Lazy Afternoon (Barbra Streisand album)|Lazy Afternoon]]'' || [[Barbra Streisand]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Malpractice (Dr. Feelgood album)|Malpractice]]'' || [[Dr. Feelgood (band)|Dr. Feelgood]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Voyage of the Acolyte]]'' || [[Steve Hackett]] || -
|-
| ''[[Nighthawks at the Diner]]'' || [[Tom Waits]] || Live
|-
| ''Downtown Flyers'' || [[Streetwalkers]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Sun and Steel (album)|Sun and Steel]]'' || [[Iron Butterfly]] ||-
|-
|}

===November===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |3
| ''[[History: America's Greatest Hits]]'' || [[America (band)|America]] ||Compilation 
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |5
| ''[[Dolly: The Seeker/We Used To]]'' || [[Dolly Parton]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |7
| ''[[Come Taste the Band]]'' || [[Deep Purple]] ||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bpi.co.uk/award/1468-1581-2|title=Deep Purple certifications}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan="3" valign="top" |10
| ''[[Horses (album)|Horses]]'' || [[Patti Smith]] ||<ref>{{cite book |title=Dancing Barefoot: The Patti Smith Story |last=Thompson |first=Dave |author-link=Dave Thompson (author) |publisher=[[Chicago Review Press]] |year=2011 |isbn=978-1-56976-325-4|page = 123}}</ref>
|-
| ''Chicago IX: Chicago's Greatest Hits'' || [[Chicago (band)|Chicago]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Zuma (Neil Young & Crazy Horse album)|Zuma]]'' || [[Neil Young]] & [[Crazy Horse (band)|Crazy Horse]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |11
| ''[[Gratitude (Earth, Wind & Fire album)|Gratitude]]'' || [[Earth, Wind & Fire]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="3" valign="top" |17
| ''[[Greatest Hits (ABBA album)|Greatest Hits]]'' || [[ABBA]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Schoolboys in Disgrace]]'' || [[The Kinks]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Teaser (Tommy Bolin album)|Teaser]]'' || [[Tommy Bolin]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |21
| ''[[Fish Out of Water (Chris Squire album)|Fish Out of Water]]'' || [[Chris Squire]] ||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bpi.co.uk/award/2288-3606-2|title=BPI}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Greatest Hits (Nazareth album)|Greatest Hits]]'' || [[Nazareth (band)|Nazareth]] ||<ref name ="rym">{{cite web |url=https://www.bpi.co.uk/award/2649-1770-2|title=BPI certification}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |25
| ''[[Nightrider (album)|Nightrider]]'' || [[Charlie Daniels]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="3" valign="top" |28
| ''[[A Night at the Opera (Queen album)|A Night at the Opera]]'' || [[Queen (band)|Queen]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Crisis? What Crisis?]]'' || [[Supertramp]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Numbers (Cat Stevens album)|Numbers]]'' || [[Cat Stevens]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="23" valign="top" |-
| ''[[Heaven and Hell (Vangelis album)|Heaven and Hell]]'' || [[Vangelis]] ||<ref name="nemov02">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nemostudios.co.uk/nemo/main/vangelis/v02.htm |title=Vangelis &#124; A musical journey &#124; (Page 2 of 15) &#124; Vangelis Papathanassiou |author=<!-- Not stated --> |website=NemoStudios.co.uk |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171216003704/http://www.nemostudios.co.uk/nemo/main/vangelis/v02.htm |archive-date=December 16, 2017 |url-status= |access-date=March 9, 2019 |quote="The first studio album to emerge from Nemo Studios was entitled 'Heaven and Hell', which was released in November 1975."}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Radio-Activity]]'' || [[Kraftwerk]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Northern Lights – Southern Cross]]'' || [[The Band]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Spanish Train and Other Stories]]'' || [[Chris de Burgh]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Best of Carly Simon]]'' || [[Carly Simon]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Discreet Music]]'' || [[Brian Eno]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Family Reunion (The O'Jays album)|Family Reunion]]'' || [[The O'Jays]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Helen of Troy (album)|Helen of Troy]]'' || [[John Cale]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Hissing of Summer Lawns]]'' || [[Joni Mitchell]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Hot Chocolate (album)|Hot Chocolate]]'' || [[Hot Chocolate]] ||-
|-
| ''[[If the Shoe Fits]]'' || [[Pure Prairie League]] ||-
|-
| ''[[It's Only Love (Rita Coolidge album)|It's Only Love]]'' || [[Rita Coolidge]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Last Record Album]]'' || [[Little Feat]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Lisztomania (album)|Lisztomania]]'' || [[Rick Wakeman]] || Soundtrack
|-
| ''[[Mustard (album)|Mustard]]'' || [[Roy Wood]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Nomadness]]'' || [[Strawbs]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Pour Down Like Silver]]'' || [[Richard Thompson (musician)|Richard]] and [[Linda Thompson (singer)|Linda Thompson]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Pressure Drop (album)|Pressure Drop]]'' || [[Robert Palmer]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Rufus featuring Chaka Khan (album)|Rufus featuring Chaka Khan]]'' || [[Rufus (band)|Rufus]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Strung Up (Sweet album)|Strung Up]]'' || [[The Sweet|Sweet]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Together (Anne Murray album)|Together]]'' || [[Anne Murray]] ||-
|-
| ''Track of the Cat'' || [[Dionne Warwick]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Who's to Bless and Who's to Blame]]'' || [[Kris Kristofferson]] ||-
|-
|}

===December===
{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
|rowspan="3" valign="top" |1
| ''[[Elva kvinnor i ett hus]]''<ref>{{Cite AV media notes |title=Elva kvinnor i ett hus |title-link=Elva kvinnor i ett hus |others=[[Agnetha Fältskog]] |year=1975 |first=Agnetha |last=Fältskog  |last2=Carlgren |first2=Bosse |type=liner notes |publisher=[[CBS Records International|Cupol]] |id=CLPS 351 |location=Stockholm, Sweden}}</ref> || [[Agnetha Fältskog]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Equinox (Styx album)|Equinox]]'' || [[Styx (band)|Styx]] ||-
|-
| ''[[T.N.T. (album)|T.N.T.]]'' || [[AC/DC]] || Australia
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |4
| ''[[Stephen Stills Live]]'' || [[Stephen Stills]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |5
| ''[[Live! (Bob Marley & the Wailers album)|Live!]]'' || [[Bob Marley & The Wailers]] || Live
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |12
| ''[[Blast from Your Past]]'' || [[Ringo Starr]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Marcus Garvey (album)|Marcus Garvey]]'' || [[Burning Spear]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |15
| ''[[Mothership Connection]]'' || [[Parliament (band)|Parliament]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="1" valign="top" |29
| ''[[Elite Hotel]]'' || [[Emmylou Harris]] ||-
|-
|rowspan="4" valign="top" |-
| ''[[Evening Star (Fripp & Eno album)|Evening Star]]'' || [[Fripp & Eno]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Head On (Bachman–Turner Overdrive album)|Head On]]'' || [[Bachman–Turner Overdrive]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Ricochet (Tangerine Dream album)|Ricochet]]'' || [[Tangerine Dream]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Wouldn't You Like It?]]'' || [[Bay City Rollers]] ||-
|-
|}

===Release date unknown===
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{{col-2}}
*''Afro-Filipino'' – [[Joe Bataan]]
*''[[Born to Be with You (album)|Born to Be with You]]'' – [[Dion DiMucci]] + produced by [[Phil Spector]]
*''[[Brass Construction (album)|Brass Construction]]'' – [[Brass Construction]]
*''[[Chuck Berry (1975 album)|Chuck Berry]]'' – [[Chuck Berry]]
*''[[Come Again (The Jaggerz album)|Come Again]]'' – [[the Jaggerz]]
*''[[Confusion (album)|Confusion]]'' – [[Fela Kuti]]
*''[[Crack the Sky (Crack the Sky album)|Crack the Sky]]'' – [[Crack The Sky]]
*''Cut Me While I'm Hot (The Sixties Sessions)'' – [[Dr. John]]
*''[[Das schönste im Leben]]'' – [[Die Flippers]]
*''[[Dreadlocks Dread]]'' – [[Big Youth]]
*''[[Ego Ti Eho Ke Ti Tha 'Ho]]'' – [[Tolis Voskopoulos]]<ref>Dragoumanos, Petros (2009). Elliniki Diskografia 1950–2009 (Greek Discography 1950–2009)</ref>
*''[[El amor (Julio Iglesias album)|El amor]]'' – [[Julio Iglesias]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Novas|first=Himilce|title=The Hispanic 100: a ranking of the Latino men and women who have most influenced American thought and culture|url=https://archive.org/details/hispanic100ranki00nova|url-access=registration|access-date=24 December 2012|date=1 January 1995|publisher=Carol Pub. Group|isbn=978-0-8065-1651-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/hispanic100ranki00nova/page/201 201]}}</ref>
*''[[Expensive Shit]]'' – [[Fela Kuti]]
*''[[Fox (album)|Fox]]'' – [[Fox (band)|Fox]] (debut)
*''[[A Funky Thide of Sings]]'' – [[Billy Cobham]]
*''[[Goodbye (Gene Ammons album)|Goodbye]]'' – [[Gene Ammons]]
*''[[High Step]]'' – [[Paul Chambers]] and [[John Coltrane]]
*''[[Home Plate (album)|Home Plate]]'' – [[Bonnie Raitt]]
*''[[Journey to Love]]'' – [[Stanley Clarke]]
*''[[Juice Newton & Silver Spur]]'' – [[Juice Newton and Silver Spur]]
*''[[The Köln Concert]]'' – [[Keith Jarrett]]
*''[[Live/Hhaï]]'' – [[Magma (band)|Magma]] – live
*''[[Mel Tormé live at the Maisonette]]'' – [[Mel Tormé]]
*''[[Montreux '75]]'' – [[Ella Fitzgerald]]
*''[[Moxy (album)|Moxy]]'' – [[Moxy (band)|Moxy]]
*''[[Music Keeps Me Together]]'' – [[Taj Mahal (musician)|Taj Mahal]]
*''[[Nasty Gal (album)|Nasty Gal]]'' – [[Betty Davis]]
*''[[Neu! '75]]'' – [[Neu!]]
*''[[Nils Lofgren (album)|Nils Lofgren]]'' – [[Nils Lofgren]]
{{col-2}}
*''[[No Mystery]]'' – [[Return to Forever]]
*''[[No Reservations (Blackfoot album)|No Reservations]]'' – [[Blackfoot (band)|Blackfoot]]
*''[[Not a Little Girl Anymore (Linda Lewis album)|Not a Little Girl Anymore]]'' – [[Linda Lewis]]
*''[[Now (The Dubliners album)|Now]]'' – [[The Dubliners]]
*''[[Old No. 1]]'' – [[Guy Clark]]
*''[[The Other Side of Me (Andy Williams album)|The Other Side of Me]]'' – [[Andy Williams]]
*''[[Pampered Menial]]'' – [[Pavlov%27s_Dog_(band)|Pavlov's Dog]]
*''[[Power and the Passion (album)|Power and the Passion]]'' – [[Eloy (band)|Eloy]]
*''[[Pre-Creedence]]'' – [[The Golliwogs]] – compilation
*''[[Rimmel (album)|Rimmel]]'' – [[Francesco de Gregori]]
*''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show (soundtrack)|The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'' – various artists – soundtrack
*''[[Ronnie Drew (album)|Ronnie Drew]]'' – [[Ronnie Drew]] (solo debut)
*''[[Say It Ain't So (album)]]'' – [[Murray Head]]
*''[[Solstice (album)|Solstice]]'' – [[Ralph Towner]]
*''[[The Sweet Singles Album]]'' – [[The Sweet|Sweet]]
*''[[Taking Off (David Sanborn album)|Taking Off]]'' – [[David Sanborn]]
*''[[Tails of Illusion]]'' – [[Fox (band)|Fox]]
*''[[Tea Break Over–Back on Your 'Eads!]]'' – [[If (band)|IF]]
*''Train Ride to Hollywood'' – [[Bloodstone (band)|Bloodstone]] – soundtrack to their [[Train Ride to Hollywood|feature movie]]
*''[[Trapeze (1975 album)|Trapeze]]'' – [[Trapeze (band)|Trapeze]]
*''[[Two Steps Forward, One Step Back]]'' – [[Patrick Sky]]
*''[[Velvet Donkey]]'' – [[Ivor Cutler]]
{{col-end}}

==Billboard Top popular records of 1975==
<br>
<u>"TOP RECORDS OF 1975 (from Billboard December 27, 1975)</u><br><br />
''The information compiled for the top records survey is based on the weekly chart positioning and length of time records were on the respective charts from the issue dates of November 2, 1974 through November 1, 1975. These recaps, as well as the weekly charts, do not reflect actual sales figures. The ratings take into account the number of weeks the disk was on the chart, plus the weekly positions it held during its chart life. Each disk was given points accordingly for its respective chart, and in addition, the number one disk each week was assigned bonus points equal to the total number of positions on its respective charts." ''<br />

Unfortunately, Billboard's late December print deadline prevented approximately 60 records from completing their full chart runs, and includes data of approximately 50 records from 1976, some of which have enough points to rank in the current years chart. In contrast with the [[Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1975]], the chart below does not truncate or split chart runs between years. It does not add two months from 1974, delete two months from 1975 and then call itself the "Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1975", which it is obviously not. Joel Whitburn's Records Research books, archived issues of Billboard for November–December 1974 and December 1975 – March 1976, and Hot 100 Year-End formulas were used to complete the year-end chart [[Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1975|reprinted here]]. 

The completed Billboard year-end list for 1975 is composed of records that entered the [[Billboard Hot 100#History|Billboard Hot 100]] between November 1974 and December 1975. Records with chart runs that started in 1974 and ended in 1975, or started in 1975 and ended in 1976, '''made this chart if the majority of their chart weeks were in 1975'''. If not, they were ranked in the year-end charts for 1974 or 1976. If their weeks were equal, they were listed in the year they first entered. Appearing in multiple years is not permitted. Each week thirty points were awarded to the number one record, then nineteen points for number two, eighteen points for number three, and so on. The total points a record earned determined its year-end rank. The complete chart life of each record is represented, with number of points accrued. There are no ties, even when multiple records have the same number of points. The next ranking category is peak chart position, then weeks at peak chart position, weeks on Hot 100 chart, weeks in top forty, and finally weeks in top ten. All chart rankings represented below for the Top Soul Singles, Top Country Singles, Top Easy Listening Singles, and [https://web.archive.org/web/20081202010202/http://www.cashboxmagazine.com/archives/70s_files/1975YESP.html Top CashBox pop singles] were all calculated in the same manner.

The chart can be sorted by Artist, Song title, Recording and Release dates, Cashbox year-end ranking (CB) or units sold (sales) by clicking on the column header. Additional details for each record can be accessed by clicking on the song title, and referring to the Infobox in the right column of the song page. [https://www.billboard.com/charts/ Billboard also has chart summaries] on its website. Sales information was derived from the [https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/ RIAA's Gold and Platinum database], the [https://www.bpi.co.uk/brit-certified/ BRIT Certified database]  and The Book of Golden Discs,<ref name=goldendiscs>{{Cite book |last=Murrells |first=Joseph |url=http://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr |title=The book of golden discs |date=1978 |publisher=London : Barrie & Jenkins |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-214-20512-5}}</ref> but numbers listed should be regarded as estimates. [[Grammy Hall of Fame]] and [[National Recording Registry]] information with sources can be found on Wikipedia. 
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! [[Billboard Hot 100|Rank]] 
! Artist
! Title
! Label
! Recorded
! Release Date
! CB
! Sales
! Charts, Awards
|-
| 1 || [[Glen Campbell]] || "[[Rhinestone Cowboy]]" || Capitol 4095 || {{Date table sorting|197503}}|March 19, 1975 || {{Date table sorting|197505}}|May 26, 1975 || 3 || 3.25 || US Billboard 1975 #1, US Hot100 #1 for 2 weeks, 22 total weeks, 212 points, '''Top Country Singles 1975 #1''', Country Singles #1 for 3 weeks, 21 total weeks, 196 points, Top Easy Listening Singles 1975 #5, Easy Listening Singles #1 for 1 week, 15 total weeks, 168 points
|-
| 2 || [[Elton John|The Elton John Band]] || "[[Philadelphia Freedom (song)|Philadelphia Freedom]]" || MCA 40364 || {{Date table sorting|197408}}|August 1974 || {{Date table sorting|197502}}|February 24, 1975 || 4 || 3.00 || US Billboard 1975 #2, US Hot100 #1 for 2 weeks, 21 total weeks, 207 points
|-
| 3 || [[The Captain and Tennille]] || "[[Love Will Keep Us Together#Captain & Tennille version|Love Will Keep Us Together]]" || A&M 1672 || {{Date table sorting|197502}}|1975 || {{Date table sorting|197504}}|April 1975 || 7 || 3.00 || US Billboard 1975 #3, US Hot100 #1 for 4 weeks, 23 total weeks, 204 points, Grammy Hall of Fame 2022
|-
| 4 || [[John Denver]] || "[[I'm Sorry (John Denver song)|I'm Sorry/Calypso]]" || RCA 10353 || {{Date table sorting|197505}}|May 1975 || {{Date table sorting|197507}}|July 1975 || 36 || 5.00 || US Billboard 1975 #4, US Hot100 #1 for 1 weeks, 18 total weeks, 188 points, Top Country Singles 1975 #5, Country Singles #1 for 1 weeks, 18 total weeks, 142 points, Top Easy Listening Singles 1975 #4, Easy Listening Singles #1 for 2 weeks, 13 total weeks, 172 points
|-
| 5 || [[Ohio Players]] || "[[Love Rollercoaster]]" || Mercury 73734 || {{Date table sorting|197507}}|1975 || {{Date table sorting|197511}}|November 9, 1975 || 16 || 1.50 || US Billboard 1975 #5, US Hot100 #1 for 1 weeks, 16 total weeks, 188 points
|-
| 6 || [[Eagles (band)|Eagles]] || "[[One of These Nights (Eagles song)|One of These Nights]]" || Asylum 45257 || {{Date table sorting|197502}}|1975 || {{Date table sorting|197505}}|May 19, 1975 || 15 || 1.50 || US Billboard 1975 #6, US Hot100 #1 for 1 weeks, 17 total weeks, 179 points, Top Mainstream Rock 1975 #9
|-
| 7 || [[K.C. and the Sunshine Band]] || "[[That's The Way (I Like It)]]" || T.K. 1015 || {{Date table sorting|197503}}|1975 || {{Date table sorting|197506}}|June 10, 1975 || 1 || 3.00 || US Billboard 1975 #7, US Hot100 #1 for 2 weeks, 14 total weeks, 176 points
|-
| 8 || [[David Bowie]] || "[[Fame (David Bowie song)|Fame]]" || RCA Victor 10320 || {{Date table sorting|197501}}|January 1975 || {{Date table sorting|197506}}|June 1975 || 17 || 1.50 || US Billboard 1975 #8, US Hot100 #1 for 1 weeks, 17 total weeks, 166 points
|-
| 9 || Elton John || "[[Island Girl]]" || MCA 40461 || {{Date table sorting|197507}}|July 1975 || {{Date table sorting|197509}}|September 29, 1975 || 9 || 3.00 || US Billboard 1975 #9, US Hot100 #1 for 3 weeks, 15 total weeks, 163 points
|-
| 10 || [[The Bee Gees]] || "[[Jive Talkin']]" || RSO 510 || {{Date table sorting|197502}}|February 19, 1975 || {{Date table sorting|197505}}|May 1975 || 2 || 2.00 || US Billboard 1975 #10, US Hot100 #1 for 2 weeks, 17 total weeks, 162 points
|-
| 11 || [[Earth, Wind & Fire]] || "[[Shining Star (Earth, Wind & Fire song)|Shining Star]]" || Columbia 10090 || {{Date table sorting|197410}}|October 1974 || {{Date table sorting|197501}}|January 21, 1975 || 11 || 1.25 || US Billboard 1975 #11, US Hot100 #1 for 1 weeks, 20 total weeks, 160 points, Top Soul Singles 1975 #8, Hot Soul Singles #1 for 2 weeks, 16 total weeks, 144 points, Grammy Hall of Fame 2008, from album "[[That's the Way of the World]]"-Columbia 33280, Grammy Hall of Fame 2004
|-
| 12 || [[Minnie Riperton]] || "[[Lovin' You]]" || Epic 50057 || {{Date table sorting|197410}}|October 1974 || {{Date table sorting|197501}}|January 1975 || 5 || 3.25 || US Billboard 1975 #12, US Hot100 #1 for 1 weeks, 18 total weeks, 159 points
|-
| 13 || [[Silver Convention]] || "[[Fly, Robin, Fly]]" || Midland Int'l. 10339 || {{Date table sorting|197503}}|March 1975 || {{Date table sorting|197509}}|September 1975 || 14 || 2.25 || US Billboard 1975 #13, US Hot100 #1 for 3 weeks, 17 total weeks, 155 points
|-
| 14 || [[Tony Orlando and Dawn]] || "[[He Don't Love You (Like I Love You)]]" || Elektra 45240 || {{Date table sorting|197412}}|December 1974 || {{Date table sorting|197503}}|March 1975 || 34 || 3.00 || US Billboard 1975 #14, US Hot100 #1 for 3 weeks, 14 total weeks, 152 points
|-
| 15 || [[Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony]] || "[[The Hustle (song)|The Hustle]]" || Avco 4653 || {{Date table sorting|197502}}|1975} || {{Date table sorting|197504}}|April 18, 1975 || 18 || 6.00 || US Billboard 1975 #15, US Hot100 #1 for 1 weeks, 19 total weeks, 151 points, Top Soul Singles 1975 #6, Hot Soul Singles #1 for 1 weeks, 19 total weeks, 155 points
|-
| 16 || [[LaBelle]] || "[[Lady Marmalade|Lady Marmalade (Voulez-Vous Coucher Avec Moi)]]" || Epic 50048 || {{Date table sorting|197505}}|May 1975 || {{Date table sorting|197506}}|June 10, 1975 || 6 || 3.00 || US Billboard 1975 #16, US Hot100 #1 for 1 weeks, 18 total weeks, 151 points, Grammy Hall of Fame 2003, National Recording Registry 2020
|-
| 17 || [[Neil Sedaka]] || "[[Bad Blood (Neil Sedaka song)|Bad Blood]]" || Rocket 40460 || {{Date table sorting|197503}}|March 1975 || {{Date table sorting|197509}}|September 2, 1975 || 13 || 1.25 || US Billboard 1975 #17, US Hot100 #1 for 2 weeks, 14 total weeks, 149 points
|-
| 18 || [[Diana Ross]] || "[[Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)]]" || Motown 1377 || {{Date table sorting|197503}}|March 1975 || {{Date table sorting|197509}}|September 1975 || 41 || 1.50 || US Billboard 1975 #18, US Hot100 #1 for 1 weeks, 17 total weeks, 148 points
|-
| 19 || [[The Doobie Brothers]] || "[[Black Water (song)|Black Water]]" || Warner Bros. 8062 || {{Date table sorting|197503}}|March 18, 1975 || {{Date table sorting|197507}}|July 16, 1975 || 27 || 2.25 || US Billboard 1975 #19, US Hot100 #1 for 1 weeks, 17 total weeks, 148 points
|-
| 20 || [[Linda Ronstadt]] || "[[You're No Good]]" || Capitol 3990 || {{Date table sorting|197407}}|July 5, 1974 || {{Date table sorting|197411}}|November 19, 1974 || 24 || 1.50 || US Billboard 1975 #20, US Hot100 #1 for 1 weeks, 16 total weeks, 135 points
|-
| 21 || [[Olivia Newton-John]] || "[[Have You Never Been Mellow (song)|Have You Never Been Mellow]]" || MCA 40349 || {{Date table sorting|197410}}|October 1974 || {{Date table sorting|197501}}|January 21, 1975 || 10 || 1.50 || US Billboard 1975 #21, US Hot100 #1 for 1 weeks, 16 total weeks, 134
|-
| 22 || [[Freddy Fender]] || "[[Before the Next Teardrop Falls (song)|Before the Next Teardrop Falls]]" || Dot 17540 || {{Date table sorting|197410}}|October 1974 || {{Date table sorting|197501}}|January 1975 || 29 || 1.50 || US Billboard 1975 #22, US Hot100 #1 for 1 week, 21 total weeks, 134 points, Top Country Singles 1975 #6, Country Singles #1 for 2 weeks, 17 total weeks, 124 points
|-
| 23 || Eagles || "[[Best of My Love (Eagles song)|Best Of My Love]]" || Asylum 45218 || {{Date table sorting|197402}}|1974 || {{Date table sorting|197411}}|November 5, 1974 || 47 || 1.50 || US Billboard 1975 #23, US Hot100 #1 for 1 weeks, 19 total weeks, 134 points, Top Easy Listening Singles 1975 #10, Easy Listening Singles #1 for 1 weeks, 17 total weeks, 146 points
|-
| 24 || Olivia Newton-John || "[[Please Mr. Please]]" || MCA 40418 || {{Date table sorting|197410}}|October 1974 || {{Date table sorting|197505}}|May 11, 1975 || 21 || 1.50 || US Billboard 1975 #24, US Hot100 #3 for 2 weeks, 15 total weeks, 134 points, Top Easy Listening Singles 1975 #8, Easy Listening Singles #1 for 3 weeks, 13 total weeks, 161 points
|-
| 25 || Elton John || "[[Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds]]" || MCA 40344 || {{Date table sorting|197406}}|June 1974 || {{Date table sorting|197411}}|November 18, 1974 || 35 || 3.00 || US Billboard 1975 #25, US Hot100 #1 for 2 weeks, 14 total weeks, 133 points
|-
| 26 || [[The Miracles]] || "[[Love Machine (The Miracles song)|Love Machine (Part 1)]]" || United Artists 940 || {{Date table sorting|197506}}|June 13, 1975 || {{Date table sorting|197508}}|August 21, 1975 || 8 || 2.00 || US Billboard 1975 #25, US Hot100 #1 for 1 weeks, 28 total weeks, 133 points
|-
| 27 || [[Paul McCartney and Wings]] || "[[Listen to What the Man Said]]" || Capitol 4091 || {{Date table sorting|197502}}|February 20, 1975 || {{Date table sorting|197503}}|March 16, 1975 || 25 || 3.00 || US Billboard 1975 #26, US #1 for 1 weeks, 14 total weeks, 133 points
|-
| 28 || John Denver || "[[Thank God I'm A Country Boy]]" || RCA 10353 || {{Date table sorting|197408}}|August 26, 1974 || {{Date table sorting|197503}}|March 1975 || 22 || 5.00 || US Billboard 1975 #27, US Hot100 #1 for 1 weeks, 19 total weeks, 132 points
|-
| 29 || [[Morris Albert]] || "[[Feelings (Morris Albert song)|Feelings]]" || Arista 0244 || {{Date table sorting|197501}}|1975 || {{Date table sorting|197505}}|May 1975 || 57 || 2.00 || US Billboard 1975 #28, US Hot100 #6 for 1 weeks, 32 total weeks, 132 points
|-
| 30 || Ohio Players || "[[Fire (Ohio Players song)|Fire]]" || Mercury 73643 || {{Date table sorting|197408}}|Feb–Aug 1974 || {{Date table sorting|197411}}|November 1974 || 39 || 6.5 || US Billboard 1975 #30, US Hot100 #1 for 1 weeks, 17 total weeks, 130 points, '''Top Soul Singles 1975 #1''', Hot Soul Singles #1 for 2 weeks, 18 total weeks, 192 points
|-
| 31 || Eagles || "[[Lyin' Eyes]]" || Asylum 45279 || {{Date table sorting|197501}}|January 1975 || {{Date table sorting|197509}}|September 8, 1975 || 28 || 1.50 || US Billboard 1975 #29, US Hot100 #2 for 2 weeks, 14 total weeks, 130 points, Top Mainstream Rock 1975 #5
|-
| 32 || [[Average White Band|AWB]] || "[[Pick Up the Pieces (Average White Band song)|Pick Up The Pieces]]" || Atlantic 3229 || {{Date table sorting|197405}}|May 1974 || {{Date table sorting|197410}}|October 21, 1974 || 11 || 1.25 || US Billboard 1975 #30, US Hot100 #1 for 1 weeks, 17 total weeks, 129 points
|-
| 33 || [[The Staple Singers]] || "[[Let's Do It Again (song)|Let's Do It Again]]" || Curtom 0109 || {{Date table sorting|197405}}|1975 || {{Date table sorting|197410}}|October 1975 || 30 || 1.25 || US Billboard 1975 #31, US Hot100 #1 for 1 weeks, 15 total weeks, 129 points, Top Soul Singles 1975 #4, Hot Soul Singles #1 for 2 weeks, 18 total weeks, 174 points
|-
| 178 || [[Bruce Springsteen]] || "[[Born to Run (song)|Born to Run]]" || Columbia 10209 || {{Date table sorting|197408}}|Feb–Aug 1974 || {{Date table sorting|197508}}|August 25, 1975 || 94 || 6.5 || US Billboard 1975 #178, US Hot100 #23 for 2 weeks, 11 total weeks, '''Top Rock 1975 #1''', Grammy Hall of Fame 2003, National Recording Registry 2003, from album "[[Born to Run]]"-Columbia 33795, Grammy Hall of Fame 2003.
|}

==Chronological table of U.S. and UK and Japan number one hit singles==
{|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"
|-
!U.S. number one singles and artist<br />(weeks at number one)
!UK number one singles and artist<br />(weeks at number one)
|-
|style="padding:5px;vertical-align:top;width:50%;"|
"[[Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds]]" – [[Elton John]] (2)
<br />"[[Mandy (Barry Manilow song)|Mandy]]" – [[Barry Manilow]] (1)
<br />"[[Please Mr. Postman]]" – [[The Carpenters]] (1)
<br />"[[Laughter in the Rain]]" – [[Neil Sedaka]] (1)
<br />"[[Fire (Ohio Players song)|Fire]]" – [[Ohio Players]] (1)
<br />"[[You're No Good]]" – [[Linda Ronstadt]] (1)
<br />"[[Pick Up the Pieces (Average White Band song)|Pick Up the Pieces]]" – [[Average White Band]] (1)
<br />"[[Best of My Love (Eagles song)|Best of My Love]]" – [[Eagles (band)|Eagles]] (1)
<br />"[[Have You Never Been Mellow (song)|Have You Never Been Mellow]]" – [[Olivia Newton-John]] (1)
<br />"[[Black Water (song)|Black Water]]" – [[The Doobie Brothers]] (1)
<br />"[[My Eyes Adored You]]" – [[Frankie Valli]] (1)
<br />"[[Lady Marmalade]]" – [[Labelle]] (1)
<br />"[[Lovin' You]]" – [[Minnie Riperton]] (1)
<br />"[[Philadelphia Freedom (song)|Philadelphia Freedom]]" – [[Elton John]] (2)
<br />"[[(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song]]" – [[B. J. Thomas]] (1)
<br />"[[He Don't Love You (Like I Love You)#Tony Orlando and Dawn version|He Don't Love You (Like I Love You)]]" – [[Tony Orlando and Dawn]] (3)
<br />"[[Shining Star (Earth, Wind & Fire song)|Shining Star]]" – [[Earth, Wind & Fire]] (1)
<br />"[[Before the Next Teardrop Falls (song)|Before the Next Teardrop Falls]]" – [[Freddy Fender]] (1)
<br />"[[Thank God I'm a Country Boy]]" – [[John Denver]] (1)
<br />"[[Sister Golden Hair]]" – [[America (band)|America]] (1)
<br />'''"[[Love Will Keep Us Together]]" – [[Captain & Tennille]] (4)'''
<br />"[[Listen to What the Man Said]]" – [[Paul McCartney & Wings]] (1)
<br />"[[The Hustle (song)|The Hustle]]" – [[Van McCoy]] (1)
<br />"[[One of These Nights (Eagles song)|One of These Nights]]" – [[Eagles (band)|Eagles]] (1)
<br />"[[Jive Talkin']]" – [[Bee Gees]] (2)
<br />"[[Fallin' in Love (1975 song)|Fallin' in Love]]" – [[Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds]] (1)
<br />"[[Get Down Tonight]]" – [[KC and the Sunshine Band]] (1)
<br />"[[Rhinestone Cowboy]]" – [[Glen Campbell]] (2)
<br />"[[Fame (David Bowie song)|Fame]]" – [[David Bowie]] (2)
<br />"[[I'm Sorry (John Denver song)|I'm Sorry]]" – [[John Denver]] (1)
<br />"[[Bad Blood (Neil Sedaka song)|Bad Blood]]" – [[Neil Sedaka]] (3)
<br />"[[Island Girl]]" – [[Elton John]] (3)
<br />"[[That's the Way (I Like It)]]" – [[KC and the Sunshine Band]] (2)
<br />"[[Fly, Robin, Fly]]" – [[Silver Convention]] (3)
<br />"[[Let's Do It Again (song)|Let's Do It Again]]" – [[The Staple Singers]] (1)
|style="padding:5px;vertical-align:top;width:50%;"|
"[[Lonely This Christmas]]" – [[Mud (band)|Mud]] (2 weeks 1974 + 2 weeks 1975)
<br />"[[Down Down]]" – [[Status Quo (band)|Status Quo]] (1)
<br />"[[Ms Grace]]" – [[The Tymes]] (1)
<br />"[[January (Pilot song)|January]]" – [[Pilot (Scottish band)|Pilot]] (3)
<br />"[[Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)]]" – [[Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel]] (2)
<br />"[[If (Bread song)|If]]" – [[Telly Savalas]] (2)
<br />'''"[[Bye, Bye, Baby (Baby Goodbye)]]" – [[Bay City Rollers]] (6)'''
<br />"[[Oh Boy (Mud song)|Oh Boy]]" – [[Mud (band)|Mud]] (2)
<br />"[[Stand by Your Man]]" – [[Tammy Wynette]] (3)
<br />"[[Whispering Grass#Windsor Davies and Don Estelle version|Whispering Grass]]" – [[Windsor Davies]] & [[Don Estelle]] (3)
<br />"[[I'm Not in Love]]" – [[10cc]] (2)
<br />"[[Tears on My Pillow (Johnny Nash song)|Tears on My Pillow (I Can't Take It)]]" – [[Johnny Nash]] (1)
<br />"[[Give a Little Love (Bay City Rollers song)|Give a Little Love]]" – [[Bay City Rollers]] (3)
<br />"[[Barbados (Typically Tropical song)|Barbados]]" – [[Typically Tropical]] (1)
<br />"[[Can't Give You Anything (But My Love)]]" – [[The Stylistics]] (3)
<br />"[[Sailing (Rod Stewart song)|Sailing]]" – [[Rod Stewart]] (4)
<br />"[[Hold Me Close]]" – [[David Essex]] (3)
<br />"[[I Only Have Eyes for You]]" – [[Art Garfunkel]] (2)
<br />"[[Space Oddity]]" – [[David Bowie]] (2)
<br />"[[D.I.V.O.R.C.E.]]" – [[Billy Connolly]] (1)
<br />"[[Bohemian Rhapsody]]" – [[Queen (band)|Queen]]" (5 weeks 1975 + 4 weeks 1976)
|}
Note: best sellers of the year are '''bold'''.

'''Japanese Oricon number one singles and artist'''<br>  (weeks at number one)
{{main|List of Oricon number-one singles of 1975}}
{{div col}}
*"{{ill|Fuyu no Iro|ja|冬の色}}" – [[Momoe Yamaguchi]] (2 weeks 1974 + 4 weeks 1975)
*"[[Hajimete no Dekigoto]]" – [[Junko Sakurada]] (1)
*"{{ill|Shitetsu Ensen|ja|私鉄沿線}}" – [[Goro Noguchi]] (3)
*"{{ill|22-sai no Wakare|ja|22才の別れ}}" – [[Kaze (band)|Kaze]] (4)
*"{{ill|Waga Yoki Tomoyo|ja|我が良き友よ}}" – [[Hiroshi Kamayatsu]] (4)
*"{{ill|Showa Kare Susuki|ja|昭和枯れすゝき}}" – {{ill|Sakura & Ichiro|ja|さくらと一郎}} (3)
*"{{ill|Cyclamen no Kaori|ja|シクラメンのかほり}}" – [[Akira Fuse]] (5)
*"{{illm|Minato no Yoko Yokohama Yokosuka|lt=Kakkoman Boogie / Minato no Yoko Yokohama Yokosuka|ja|港のヨーコ・ヨコハマ・ヨコスカ}}" – {{ill|Down Town Boogie Woogie Band|ja|ダウン・タウン・ブギウギ・バンド}} (5)
*"{{ill|Kokoro Nokori|ja|心のこり}}" – [[Takashi Hosokawa]] (4)
*"{{ill|Omoide Makura"|ja|想い出まくら}} – {{ill|Kyoko Kosaka|ja|小坂恭子}} (1)
*"{{illm|Romance (Hiromi Iwasaki song)|lt=Romance|ja|ロマンス (岩崎宏美の曲)}}" – [[Hiromi Iwasaki]] (3)
*"{{ill|Toki no Sugiyuku Mama ni|ja|時の過ぎゆくままに}}" – [[Kenji Sawada]] (5)
*"{{ill|Ichigo Hakusho wo Mou Ichido|ja|『いちご白書』をもう一度}}" –  {{illm|Bang Bang (folk group)|lt=Bang Bang|ja|バンバン (フォークグループ)}} (6)
*"{{illm|Sentimental (Hiromi Iwasaki song)|lt=Sentimental|ja|センチメンタル (岩崎宏美の曲)}}" – Hiromi Iwasaki (2)
*"{{ill|Ano Hi ni Kaeritai|ja|あの日にかえりたい}}" – [[Yumi Arai]] (2)
{{div col end}}

==Top 40 Chart hit singles==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Song title 
! Artist(s) 
! Release date(s) 
! [[Billboard Hot 100|US]]
! [[UK Singles Chart|UK]]
! Highest chart position
! Other Chart Performance(s)
|-
|| "[[Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady]]" || [[Helen Reddy]] || {{Date table sorting|081975}}|August 1975 || 8 || n/a || 2 (Canada) || [[Ain%27t_No_Way_to_Treat_a_Lady#Chart_performance|See chart performance entry]]
|-
|| "[[At Seventeen]]" || [[Janis Ian]] || {{Date table sorting|071975}}|July 1975 || 3 || n/a || 3 (United States) || 1 (Canada RPM Adult Contemporary) – 1 (US Billboard Adult Contemporary) – 1 (U.S. Cash Box Hot 100) – 6 (Canada RPM Top Singles) = 18 (Australia) – 37 (New Zealand) – 53 (France) 
|}

==Other selected singles==
{{columns-list|colwidth=30em|

*"[[All My Friends Are Getting Married]]" – [[Skyhooks (band)|Skyhooks]] ''(# 2 Australia)''
*"[[Bad Time (Grand Funk song)|Bad Time]]" – Grand Funk
*"[[Ballroom Blitz]]" – [[The Sweet]]
*"[[Breaking Up Is Hard to Do]]" – [[Neil Sedaka]]
*"[[Chevy Van (song)|Chevy Van]]" – [[Sammy Johns]]
*"[[Could It Be Magic]]" – [[Barry Manilow]]
*"[[Cut the Cake (song)|Cut the Cake]]" – [[Average White Band]]
*"[[Do It in the Name of Love (Ben E. King song)|Do It in the Name of Love]]" – [[Ben E. King]]
*"[[Don't Call Us, We'll Call You]]" – Sugarloaf
*"[[(They Just Can't Stop It) Games People Play|Games People Play]]" – Spinners
*"[[Happy Days (TV theme)|Happy Days]]" – Pratt & McClain
*"[[Heat Wave (Martha and the Vandellas song)|Heat Wave]]" – [[Linda Ronstadt]]
*"[[Holdin' on to Yesterday]]" – Ambrosia
*"[[Horror Movie (song)|Horror Movie]]" – [[Skyhooks (band)|Skyhooks]]
*"[[How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)]]" – [[James Taylor]]
*"[[I Don't Like to Sleep Alone]]" – [[Paul Anka]]
*"[[I Write the Songs]]" – Barry Manilow
*"[[It Only Takes A Minute]]" – [[Tavares (group)|Tavares]]
*"[[It's a Miracle (Barry Manilow song)|It's a Miracle]]" – Barry Manilow
*"[[I'm Not In Love]]" – 10cc
*"[[Jump in My Car]]" – [[Ted Mulry|Ted Mulry Gang]]
*"[[Killer Queen]]" – Queen
*"[[Long Tall Glasses (I Can Dance)]]" – [[Leo Sayer]]
*"[[Lover Please]]" – [[Kris Kristofferson]] and [[Rita Coolidge]]
*"[[Magic (Pilot song)|Magic]]" – Pilot
*"[[Miracles (Jefferson Starship song)|Miracles]] – Jefferson Starship
*"[[Mr. Jaws]]" – [[Dickie Goodman]]
*"[[My Little Town]]" – Simon & Garfunkel
*"[[Never Can Say Goodbye]]" – [[Gloria Gaynor]]
*"[[Old Days]]" – Chicago
*"[[The Proud One (song)|The Proud One]]" – [[Osmond Brothers]]
*"[[The Rockford Files (theme)|The Rockford Files]]" – [[Mike Post]]
*"[[Roll On Down the Highway]]" – Bachman-Turner Overdrive
*"[[Sad Sweet Dreamer]]" – Sweet Sensation
*"[[Sky High (song)|Sky High]]" – Jigsaw
*"[[S.O.S. (ABBA song)|S.O.S.]]" – [[ABBA]]
*"[[Summer Love (Sherbet song)|Summer Love]]" – [[Sherbet (band)|Sherbet]]
*"[[Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me a Little While)|Take Me in Your Arms]]" – Doobie Brothers
*"[[To the Door of the Sun]]" – Al Martino
*"[[Up in a Puff of Smoke]]" – Polly Brown
*"[[Who Loves You]]" – Four Seasons
*"[[Why Can't We Be Friends]]" – War
*"[[Wonderful Baby]]" – Don McLean
*"[[Yesterday's Hero (John Paul Young song)|Yesterday's Hero]]" – [[John Paul Young]]
}}

==Notable singles==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Song title 
! Artist(s) 
! Release date(s) 
! Other Chart Performance(s)
|-
| "Little Johnny Jewel, Part One" b/w "Little Johnny Jewel, Part Two" || [[Television (band)|Television]] || {{Date table sorting|101975}}|October 1975 || n/a
|}

===Other Notable singles===
*"Gamblin' Bar Room Blues" b/w "Shake That Thing" – [[The Sensational Alex Harvey Band]]

==Published popular music==
* "[[All That Jazz (song)|And All That Jazz]]" w. [[Fred Ebb]] m. [[John Kander]]. Introduced by [[Chita Rivera]] in the musical ''Chicago''
* "Anytime (I'll Be There)"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w.m. [[Paul Anka]]
* "[[At Seventeen]]" w.m. [[Janis Ian]]
* "Calypso"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w.m. [[John Denver]]
* "[[I'm Not in Love]]"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w.m. [[Graham Gouldman]] & [[Eric Stewart]]
* "[[I'm Sorry (John Denver song)|I'm Sorry]]"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w.m. [[John Denver]]
* "[[Love Will Keep Us Together]]"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w.m. [[Neil Sedaka]] & [[Howard Greenfield]]
* "[[Mamma Mia (ABBA song)|Mamma Mia]]"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w.m. [[Benny Andersson]], Stig Anderson & [[Björn Ulvaeus]]
* "Movin' On Up" w.m. [[Jeff Barry]] and [[Ja'net Dubois]], theme from the TV series ''[[The Jeffersons]]''
* "[[New York State of Mind]]" w.m. [[Billy Joel]]
* "One"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w. Edward Kleban m. [[Marvin Hamlisch]]
* "[[Rockin' All Over the World]]" w.m. [[John C. Fogerty]]
* "[[Wasted Days and Wasted Nights]]"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w.m. [[Freddy Fender]] & Wayne Duncan
* "The Way I Want To Touch You"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w.m. [[Toni Tennille]]
* "What I Did For Love"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w. [[Edward Kleban]] m. [[Marvin Hamlisch]]
* "You"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w.m. [[Tom Snow]]

==Classical music==
*[[Samuel Adler (composer)|Samuel Adler]] – Symphony No. 5, ''We are the Echoes''
*[[Osvaldas Balakauskas]] – ''Sonata of the Mountains''
*[[Claude Bolling]] and [[Jean-Pierre Rampal]] – Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano
*[[Mario Davidovsky]] – ''Scenes from Shir ha-Shirim'' for soprano, two tenors, bass soli and chamber ensemble
*[[Klaus Huber]] – ''Blätterlos'' for piano
*[[Wojciech Kilar]] – ''Bogurodzica'' for mixed choir and orchestra
*[[Theo Loevendie]] – Concerto for Bass Clarinet and Orchestra, ''Incantations''
*[[Witold Lutosławski]] – ''[[Les Espaces du sommeil]]''
*[[Krzysztof Meyer]]
**Sonata for piano, No. 5
**Sonata for solo violin
*[[Frederic Rzewski]] – ''[[The People United Will Never Be Defeated!]]''
*[[Karlheinz Stockhausen]] 
**''[[Harlekin]]'', for clarinet, Nr. 42
**''[[Der kleine Harlekin]]'', for clarinet, Nr. 42½
**''[[Musik im Bauch]]'', for six percussionists and music boxes, Nr. 41 
**''[[Tierkreis (Stockhausen)|Tierkreis]]'',  for a melody and/or chording instrument, Nr. 41½ 
*[[Alexander Vustin]] – ''The Word''
*[[Dmitri Shostakovich]] – [[Viola Sonata (Shostakovich)|Sonata for Viola and Piano]], Op. 147 (his final work)

==Opera==
*[[Viktor Ullmann]] – ''[[Der Kaiser von Atlantis]]'' (16 December, Bellevue Centre, [[Amsterdam]])
*[[John Rutter]] – ''[[Bang! (Rutter)|Bang!]]'' (14 March, Fairfield Halls, Croydon)
*[[Aulis Sallinen]] – ''[[The Horseman (opera)|The Horseman]]'' (17 June, [[Savonlinna Opera Festival]])

==Jazz==
{{Main|1975 in jazz}}

==Musical theatre==
* ''[[Chicago (musical)|Chicago]]'' – Broadway production opened at the [[46th Street Theatre]] and ran for 936 performances
* ''[[A Chorus Line]]'' ([[Marvin Hamlisch]] and [[Edward Kleban]]) – Broadway production opened at the [[Shubert Theatre (New York City)|Shubert Theatre]] and ran for 6137 performances, the longest run of any Broadway musical at the time
* ''[[A Little Night Music]]'' ([[Stephen Sondheim]]) – London production
* ''[[Dance With Me (musical)|Dance With Me]]'' – Broadway production opened at the Mayfair Theatre and ran for 396 performances
* ''[[The Wiz]]'' – Broadway production opened at the [[Majestic Theatre (Broadway)|Majestic Theatre]] and ran for 1672 performances
* ''[[Pacific Overtures]]'' – Broadway production opened at the [[Winter Garden Theatre]] and ran for 192 performances

==Musical films==
* ''[[At Long Last Love]]''
* ''[[Funny Lady]]''
* ''[[Lisztomania (film)|Lisztomania]]''
* ''[[The Magic Flute (1975 film)|The Magic Flute]]''
* ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]''
* ''[[Tommy (1975 film)|Tommy]]
* ''[[Train Ride to Hollywood]]''

==Births==

===January===
*[[January 2]]
**Doug Robb ([[Hoobastank]])
**[[Chris Cheney]], Australian rock musician ([[The Living End]])
**[[Jung Sung-hwa]], South Korean actor
*[[January 3]] – [[Thomas Bangalter]], French record producer, singer-songwriter, DJ and composer ([[Daft Punk]])
*[[January 5]] – [[Bradley Cooper]], American singer, actor, film maker, voice actor and producer (''[[A Star Is Born (2018 film)|A Star Is Born]]'', 2018, starring [[Lady Gaga]])
*[[January 8]] – [[Harris Jayaraj]], Indian film composer and producer
*[[January 11]] – [[Venetian Snares]], [[electronic dance]] music composer, influential in [[breakcore]] 
*[[January 13]] – [[Jason King (radio)|Jason King]], radio DJ
*[[January 15]] 
** [[Edith Bowman]], British radio DJ
** [[Belinda Chapple]], Australian singer, actress and creative director
*[[January 17]] 
** [[Rami Yacoub]], Swedish-born Palestinian music producer and songwriter (Cheiron Studios and Maratone) 
** [[Coco Lee]],  Hong Kong–born American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actress (d. [[2023]])
*[[January 22]] – [[Balthazar Getty]], American actor, musician and member of [[Getty family]]. 
*[[January 24]] – [[Paul Marazzi]], English singer ([[A1 (band)|A1]])
*[[January 28]]
**[[Tanya Chua]], Singaporean singer-songwriter
**[[Lee Latchford-Evans]], British singer ([[Steps (group)|Steps]])<ref name=Larkin>{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=27 May 2011 |publisher=Omnibus Press |isbn=978-0-85712-595-8 |page=1959 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Encyclopedia_of_Popular_Music/_NNmFiUnSmUC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=RA8-PA1959&printsec=frontcover |language=en}}</ref>
*[[January 29]] – [[Kelly Packard]], American singer-actress-hostess
*[[January 30]] – [[Yumi Yoshimura]], Japanese singer ([[Puffy Amiyumi]])

===February===
*[[February 1]] – [[Big Boi]] ([[OutKast]])
*[[February 4]] – [[Natalie Imbruglia]], Australian singer-songwriter, model and actress
*[[February 5]] – [[Adam Carson]], drummer ([[AFI (band)|AFI]])
*[[February 6]] – [[Tomoko Kawase]], Japanese singer
*[[February 7]] – [[Wes Borland]] ([[Limp Bizkit]])
*[[February 14]] – [[Scott Owen]], Australian rock musician ([[The Living End]])
*[[February 17]] – [[Harisu]], South Korean singer, model and actress
*[[February 18]] – [[Simon Kvamm]], Danish singer, keyboard player, and actor ([[Nephew (band)|Nephew]])
*[[February 19]] – [[Daniel Adair]], Canadian rock drummer ([[Nickelback]])
*[[February 20]] – [[Brian Littrell]], American singer ([[Backstreet Boys]])
*[[February 21]] – [[Heri Joensen]], Faroese rock musician ([[Týr (band)|Týr]])
* [[February 22]] – [[Sébastien Tellier]], an independent French singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (Worked with [[Dita Von Teese]]) 
*[[February 23]] – [[Robert Lopez]], American composer and lyricist of musicals

===March===
*[[March 2]] - [[Lee Sun-kyun]], South Korean actor (d. [[2023]])
*[[March 4]] – [[Hawksley Workman]], Canadian rock singer-songwriter
*[[March 8]] – [[Peggy Zina]], Greek singer
*[[March 10]] – [[Jerry Horton]] ([[Papa Roach]])
*[[March 11]] – [[Big Boy (rapper)|Big Boy]], Puerto Rican reggaeton and hip hop rapper
*[[March 12]] – [[Kelle Bryan]], British singer ([[Eternal (band)|Eternal]])
*[[March 15]] – [[will.i.am]], American musician, rapper, singer, songwriter, DJ, record producer, entrepreneur ([[The Black Eyed Peas]])
*[[March 17]]
**[[Justin Hawkins]], English singer-songwriter, musician, guitarist ([[The Darkness (band)|The Darkness]])
**[[Jairzinho Oliveira]], Brazilian singer/songwriter/composer
*[[March 18]] – [[Sutton Foster]], American actress, singer and dancer
*[[March 19]] – [[Brann Dailor]], American drummer and singer ([[Mastodon (band)|Mastodon]])
*[[March 25]] – [[Melanie Blatt]], English singer-songwriter and actress ([[All Saints (group)|All Saints]])
*[[March 27]] – [[Fergie (singer)|Fergie]], (Stacy Ferguson) American singer-songwriter, dancer ([[The Black Eyed Peas]])

===April===
*[[April 7]] – [[Karin Dreijer]], Swedish singer-songwriter and record producer 
*[[April 8]] – [[Anouk (singer)]], Dutch singer-songwriter and musician
*[[April 10]] – [[Chris Carrabba]], American rock musician ([[Dashboard Confessional]])
*[[April 14]] – [[Stefano Miceli]], Italian conductor and pianist
*[[22 April]] – [[Anders Nyström]], Swedish guitarist ([[Katatonia]] & [[Bloodbath]])
*[[23 April]] 
** [[Jonsi]], Icelandic musician and member of Sigur Ros
** [[Olga Kern]], Russian pianist
*[[April 26]]
**[[Joey Jordison]], American musician and songwriter ([[Slipknot (band)|Slipknot]]) (d. [[2021 in music|2021]])<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Grow |first1=Kory |title=Joey Jordison, Founding Slipknot Drummer, Dead at 46 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/joey-jordison-slipknot-dead-1203167/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=28 July 2021 |date=27 July 2021}}</ref>
**[[José Pasillas]] ([[Incubus (band)|Incubus]])
*[[April 30]] – [[Tomi Joutsen]], Finnish metal musician

===May===
*[[May 2]] - [[David Beckham]], English footballer (Married to [[Victoria Beckham]], Worked with [[Geri Halliwell]])
*[[May 3]] – [[Maksim Mrvica]], Croatian crossover pianist
*[[May 8]] – [[Enrique Iglesias]], Spanish singer-songwriter, actor and record producer
*[[May 15]]
**[[Frode Haltli]], Norwegian accordionist
**[[Peter Iwers]], Swedish rock bassist ([[In Flames]])
*[[May 16]]
**[[Tony Kakko]], Finnish singer
**[[B.Slade]], American singer
*[[May 18]] – [[Jack Johnson (musician)|Jack Johnson]], American singer-songwriter, musician and documentary film-maker 
*[[May 19]] – [[Jonas Renkse]], Swedish vocalist (Katatonia) and bassist (Bloodbath)
*[[May 20]] – [[Andrew Sega]], American electronic musician
*[[May 24]] – [[Alex Lacamoire]], American musical arranger (''[[Hamilton (musical)|Hamilton]]'')
*[[May 25]] – [[Lauryn Hill]], American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer and actress ([[The Fugees]])
*[[May 27]]
**[[André 3000]], American rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer and actor ([[OutKast]])
** [[Chrigel Glanzmann]], Swiss metal singer
** [[ZP Theart]], South African singer and songwriter
*[[May 29]] – [[Melanie Brown]], English singer-songwriter, presenter, television personality, dancer, actress, author and model ([[Spice Girls]])

===June===
*[[June 2]] – [[Gisle Torvik]], Norwegian jazz guitarist
*[[June 4]] – [[Russell Brand]], English actor, comedian and DJ
*[[June 8]] – [[Emm Gryner]], Canadian singer-songwriter
*[[June 11]] - [[Choi Ji-woo]], South Korean actress and model 
*[[June 13]] - [[Kim Jo-Sun]], South Korean archer
*[[June 23]] – [[KT Tunstall]], Scottish singer-songwriter and musician.
*[[June 26]] 
**[[KJ-52]], American rapper ([[Peace of Mind (band)|Peace of Mind]])
**[[Marie-Nicole Lemieux]], Canadian operatic contralto
*[[June 28]]
**[[Jon Nödtveidt]], Swedish singer (d. 2006)
**[[Ning Baizura]], Malaysian singer

===July===
*[[July 1]] – [[Sufjan Stevens]], American folk musician
*[[July 2]] – [[Erik Ohlsson (musician)|Erik Ohlsson]], [[Millencolin]]
*[[July 5]] – [[Gunnar H. Thomsen]], Faroese rock bassist ([[Týr (band)|Týr]])
*[[July 6]] – [[50 Cent]], American rapper, actor, businessman, and investor 
*[[July 9]]
**[[Isaac Brock (musician)|Isaac Brock]], American musician
**[[Shona Fraser]], British-born music journalist and judge
** [[Jessica Folcker]], Swedish singer
**[[Jack White]], American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor ([[The White Stripes]])
*[[July 11]] – [[Lil' Kim]], American rapper
*[[July 12]] – [[Tracie Spencer]], American singer and actress
*[[July 14]]
**[[Jaime Luis Gomez]], known as "Taboo", rapper/singer of the Black Eyed Peas
**[[Tameka Cottle]] known as "Tiny", American singer/songwriter member of the group [[Xscape (group)|Xscape]]
*[[July 18]]
**[[Daron Malakian]] ([[System of a Down]])
**[[M.I.A. (rapper)|M.I.A.]],  British rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer, and activist
*[[July 21]] – [[Fredrik Johansson (guitarist)|Fredrik Johansson]], Swedish rock guitarist
*[[July 22]] – [[Aile Asszonyi]], operatic soprano
*[[July 25]] – [[Håvard Ellefsen]] ([[Mortiis]])

===August===
*[[August 5]] – [[Eicca Toppinen]], Finnish cellist ([[Apocalyptica]])
*[[August 7]] – [[Gaahl]], black metal vocalist
*[[August 27]] – [[Björn Gelotte]] Swedish guitarist (In Flames)
*  August 27   – [[Mase]], rapper
*[[August 28]] – [[Marek Szulen]], electronic music composer
*[[August 31]] – [[Sara Ramirez]], Mexican American actress, singer-songwriter, and activist

===September===
*[[September 1]]
**[[Natalie Bassingthwaighte]], Australian actress and singer
**[[Omar Rodríguez-López]] ([[At the drive-in]], [[The Mars Volta]])
*[[September 2]] – [[MC Chris]], American rapper, comedian, voice actor and writer
*[[September 3]] – [[Redfoo]], American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, dancer, record producer and DJ
*[[September 4]] – [[Mark Ronson]], British DJ and music producer
*[[September 8]] – [[Richard Hughes (musician)|Richard Hughes]], British drummer ([[Keane (band)|Keane]])
*[[September 9]] – [[Michael Bublé]], Canadian-Italian big band, swing, vocal jazz singer, songwriter, actor and record producer. 
*[[September 11]] – [[Brad Fischetti]], [[LFO (American band)|LFO]]
*[[September 16]] – [[Shannon Noll]], Australian singer
*[[September 17]] – [[Constantine Maroulis]], American singer ([[Pray for the Soul of Betty]])
*[[September 20]] – [[Asia Argento]],  Italian actress, singer, model, activist and director.
*[[September 21]] 
**[[Lil Rob]], Chicano rapper
**[[U-Jean]], American pop, R&B and hip-hop artist
*[[September 22]] – [[Mystikal]], rapper
*[[September 23]] – [[Chris Hawkins]], British radio personality
*[[September 27]] – [[Tim Campbell (actor)]], Australian stage actor, actor, singer and musician (Anthony Callea) 
*[[September 30]]
** [[Georges-Alain Jones]], French singer
** [[Glenn Fredly]], Indonesian R&B singer and songwriter (d. [[2020 in music|2020]])

===October===
*[[October 3]] – [[India Arie]], American singer-songwriter, actress, musician and record producer
*[[October 7]] 
** [[Damian Kulash]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist ([[OK Go]] and [[8in8]])
** [[Tim Minchin]], British-Australian singer-songwriter, comic performer and director
*[[October 9]] 
** [[Alain Altinoglu]], French conductor
** [[Brandy Clark]], American country music singer-songwriter
** [[Sean Ono Lennon]], American singer-songwriter and actor, son of [[John Lennon]] and [[Yoko Ono]]
*[[October 12]] – [[Jorane]], French-Canadian singer and cellist
*[[October 14]] – [[Shaznay Lewis]], English singer ([[All Saints (group)|All Saints]])
*[[October 27]] 
** [[Kate Havnevik]], Norwegian film composer and singer-songwriter
** [[Max Lilja]], Finnish cellist ([[Apocalyptica]])
*[[October 30]]
** [[Ian D'Sa]], Canadian rock guitarist ([[Billy Talent]])
** [[Steve Kazee]], American singer and actor (Jenna Dewan)

===November===
*[[November 1]] – [[Bo Bice]], American singer
*[[November 5]]
**[[Lisa Scott-Lee]], Welsh singer-songwriter and dancer ([[Steps (group)|Steps]])<ref name=Larkin />
**[[Jamie Spaniolo]] (Jamie Madrox), American rapper
** [[Keala Settle]], American actress and singer. 
*[[November 6]] – [[Mike Herrera]] ([[MxPx]])
*[[November 8]] – [[Ángel Corella]], Spanish dancer
*[[November 12]] – [[Aaron Solowoniuk]], Canadian rock drummer ([[Billy Talent]])
*[[November 14]]
**[[Travis Barker]], American musician, drummer and producer ([[blink-182]])
**[[Faye Tozer]], English singer-songwriter, dancer and stage actress ([[Steps (group)|Steps]])<ref name=Larkin />
*[[November 17]] - [[Yoon Son-ha]], South Korean actress and singer 
*[[November 19]] – [[Xscape (band)|Tamika Scott]], American singer/songwriter and producer
*[[November 20]]
**[[Dierks Bentley]], American singer-songwriter
**[[Davey Havok]], [[AFI (band)|AFI]]
**[[Jeffrey Lewis]], American [[anti-folk]] singer
*[[November 25]] – [[Paul Mealor]], composer

===December===
*[[December 5]] –  [[Paula Patton]], American songwriter under the pseudonym "Max"
*[[December 13]] – [[Tom Delonge]], American musician ([[blink-182]])
*[[December 14]] – [[Justin Furstenfeld]] ([[Blue October]])
*[[December 16]] – [[Benjamin Kowalewicz]], Canadian rock lead singer ([[Billy Talent]])
*[[December 18]] – [[Sia]], Australian singer-songwriter, record producer and music video director ([[Britney Spears]], [[Kylie Minogue]], [[Kate Pierson]]) 
*[[December 21]] – [[Paloma Herrera]], Argentine ballet dancer
*[[December 22]] – [[Amy Wadge]], British singer-songwriter
*[[December 23]] 
** [[Katie Underwood]], Australian singer-songwriter ([[Bardot (Australian band)|Bardot]]) 
** [[Lady Starlight]], American  DJ and Producer, frequently worked with [[Lady Gaga]]
*[[December 27]]
** [[Nike Ardilla]], Indonesian singer (d. [[1995 in music|1995]])
** [[Solomun (musician)]], Bosnian DJ and music producer
*[[December 30]] – [[Yoma Komatsu]], former member of the female J-Pop group [[BeForU]]

===Unknown month===
** [[Jonas Jeberg]], Danish producer, singer songwriter, and musician
** [[Slow (DJ)]], Finnish DJ and music producer

==Deaths==
*[[January 8]] – [[Richard Tucker]], operatic tenor, 61 (heart attack)
*[[January 11]] – [[Max Lorenz (tenor)|Max Lorenz]], Wagnerian tenor, 73
*[[January 16]] – [[Paul Beaver]], electronic jazz keyboardist, 49
*[[January 26]] – [[Toti Dal Monte]], operatic soprano, 81
*[[January 30]] – [[Boris Blacher]], composer, 72
*[[February 2]] – [[Eleanor French]], singer, 59<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/02/05/archives/eleanor-french-59-dies-cafe-singer-of-30s-and-40s.html?searchResultPosition=3|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=Eleanor French, 59, Dies; Cafe Singer of 30's and 40's|date=February 5, 1975}}</ref>
*[[February 3]] – [[Umm Kulthum]], singer, songwriter and actress
*[[February 4]] – [[Louis Jordan]], jazz musician, 66
*[[February 10]] – [[Dave Alexander (musician)|Dave Alexander]], bassist ([[The Stooges]]), 27 (pulmonary edema)
*[[February 13]] – [[Eric Thiman]], English composer, 74
*[[February 16]]–- [[Norman Treigle]], operatic bass-baritone, 47
*[[February 19]] – [[Luigi Dallapiccola]], composer, 71
*[[February 22]] – [[Lionel Tertis]], viola player, 98
*[[March 3]] – [[Sandy MacPherson]], theatre organist, 78
*[[March 4]] – [[Cornel Chiriac]], Romanian record producer, broadcaster and jazz musician, 33 (murdered)
*[[March 14]] – [[Will Mastin]], American vaudevillian, 100
*[[March 15]] – [[Sandy Brown (musician)|Sandy Brown]], jazz musician, 46 (heart attack)
*[[March 16]] – [[T-Bone Walker]], African-American musician, 64
*[[March 27]] – Sir [[Arthur Bliss]], Master of the Queen's Musick, 83
*[[April 12]] – [[Josephine Baker]], African-American dancer, 68
*[[April 14]] – [[Michael Flanders]], lyricist, actor, humorist and singer ([[Flanders and Swann]]), 53 (intracranial berry aneurysm)
*[[April 21]] – Sir [[Jack Westrup]], musicologist, 70
*[[April 23]] – [[Pete Ham]], singer and songwriter ([[Badfinger]]), 27 ([[suicide]])
*[[May 2]] – [[Conchita Badía]], operatic soprano, 77
*[[May 13]] – [[Bob Wills]], American Western swing bandleader, 70
*[[May 18]] – [[Leroy Anderson]], American composer and conductor, 66
*[[June 4]] – [[Frida Leider]], operatic soprano, 87
*[[June 7]] – [[Robert Schmertz (artist)|Robert Schmertz]], American folk musician and architect, 77
*[[June 16]] – [[Don Robey]], songwriter and producer, 72
*[[June 21]] – [[David Tamkin]], composer, 68
*[[June 29]] – [[Tim Buckley]], singer-songwriter, 28 (drug overdose)
*[[July 5]] – [[Gilda Dalla Rizza]], operatic soprano, 82
*[[July 10]] – [[Ernst Fischer (composer)|Ernst Fischer]], composer, 75
*[[July 14]] – [[Zutty Singleton]], American jazz drummer, 77
*[[July 19]] – [[Lefty Frizzell]], [[Country Music Hall of Fame]] singer, 47 (stroke)
*[[August 8]] – [[Cannonball Adderley]], American saxophonist, 46
*[[August 9]] – [[Dmitri Shostakovich]], composer, 68 (heart attack)
*[[August 10]] – [[Neva Carr Glyn]], operatic contralto, 67
*September – [[Flora Perini]], operatic soprano, 87
*[[September 5]]
**[[Georg Ots]], Estonian opera singer, 55
**[[Bill Sprouse Jr.]], Christian singer and songwriter, 26 (heart attack)
*[[September 6]] – [[Shelton Brooks]], Canadian-born African American song composer, 89
*[[September 20]] – [[Vincent Lopez]], American bandleader, 79
*[[October 1]] – [[Al Jackson, Jr.]], R&B drummer, 39 (shot)
*[[October 19]] – [[Cátulo Castillo]], tango composer, 69
*[[October 28]] – [[Oliver Nelson]], jazz saxophonist, 43
*[[October 30]] – John Scott Trotter, U.S. arranger and conductor
*[[December 8]] – [[Gary Thain]], rock bassist, 27 (heroin overdose)
*[[December 14]] – [[Mongezi Feza]], jazz trumpeter and flautist, 30 (pneumonia)
*[[December 17]]
**<!--December 17-->[[Noble Sissle]], U.S. bandleader and singer, 86
**<!--December 17-->[[Hound Dog Taylor]], blues musician, 60
*[[December 24]]
**<!--December 24-->[[Great Mull Air Mystery|Peter Gibbs]], violinist
**<!--December 24-->[[Bernard Herrmann]], composer, 64
**<!--December 24-->[[Tilly Losch]], dancer and actress, 72
*[[December 25]] – [[Julio Cueva]], trumpeter, bandleader and composer, 78

==Borns==
===Jaheim Hines===

==Awards==

===Grammy Awards===
*[[Grammy Awards of 1975]]

===Country Music Association Awards===
{{Empty section|date=December 2012}}

===Eurovision Song Contest===
*[[Eurovision Song Contest 1975]]

===[[Leeds International Piano Competition]]===
*[[Dimitri Alexeev]]

===[[Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship]]===
*[[Ravi Shankar]]
*[[Zubin Mehta]]

==References==
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