List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 1974

These are the Billboard magazine number-one albums of 1974, per the Billboard 200.

Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was the best performing album of 1974 despite not reaching number one at any point during the year. The album achieved 8 weeks atop the chart during 1973

Chart history

Issue date	Album	Artist(s)	Label
January 5	The Singles: 1969–1973	The Carpenters	A&M
January 12	You Don't Mess Around with Jim	Jim Croce	ABC
January 19
January 26
February 2
February 9
February 16	Planet Waves	Bob Dylan With The Band	Asylum
February 23
March 2
March 9
March 16	The Way We Were	Barbra Streisand	Columbia
March 23
March 30	John Denver's Greatest Hits	John Denver	RCA Victor
April 6
April 13	Band on the Run	Paul McCartney & Wings	Apple
April 20	John Denver's Greatest Hits	John Denver	RCA Victor
April 27	Chicago VII	Chicago	Columbia
May 4	The Sting	Marvin Hamlisch / Soundtrack	MCA
May 11
May 18
May 25
June 1
June 8	Band on the Run	Paul McCartney & Wings	Apple
June 15
June 22	Sundown	Gordon Lightfoot	Reprise
June 29
July 6	Band on the Run	Paul McCartney & Wings	Apple
July 13	Caribou	Elton John	MCA
July 20
July 27
August 3
August 10	Back Home Again	John Denver	RCA Victor
August 17	461 Ocean Boulevard	Eric Clapton	RSO
August 24
August 31
September 7
September 14	Fulfillingness' First Finale	Stevie Wonder	Tamla
September 21
September 28	Bad Company	Bad Company	Swan Song
October 5	Endless Summer	The Beach Boys	Capitol
October 12	If You Love Me, Let Me Know	Olivia Newton-John	MCA
October 19	Not Fragile	Bachman-Turner Overdrive	Mercury
October 26	Can't Get Enough	Barry White	20th Century
November 2	So Far	Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	Atlantic
November 9	Wrap Around Joy	Carole King	Ode
November 16	Walls and Bridges	John Lennon	Apple
November 23	It's Only Rock 'n' Roll	The Rolling Stones	Rolling Stones
November 30	Elton John's Greatest Hits	Elton John	MCA
December 7
December 14
December 21
December 28

See also

• 1974 in music
• List of number-one albums (United States)