List of Top 25 albums for 1976 in Australia
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The following lists the top 25 (end of year) charting albums on the Australian Album Charts, for the year of 1976. These were the best charting albums in Australia for 1976. The source for this year is the "Kent Music Report", known from 1987 onwards as the "Australian Music Report".
| # | Title | Artist | Highest pos. reached | weeks at No. 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | The Best of Abba | ABBA | 1 | 16 |
| 2. | A Night on the Town | Rod Stewart | 1 | 10 |
| 3. | Abba | ABBA | 3 | 11 (pkd #1 in 1975 & 76) |
| 4. | A Night at the Opera | Queen | 1 | 2 |
| 5. | Beautiful Noise | Neil Diamond | 1 | 4 |
| 6. | Arrival | ABBA | 1 | 8 (pkd #1 in 1976 & 77) |
| 7. | Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) | The Eagles | 3 | |
| 8. | Take It Greasy | Ol' 55 | 3 | |
| 9. | Wings At the Speed of Sound | Wings | 2 | |
| 10. | Howzat | Sherbet | 1 | 2 |
| 11. | Desire | Bob Dylan | 1 | 3 |
| 12. | Let's Stick Together | Bryan Ferry | 1 | 2 |
| 13. | Alice Cooper Goes to Hell | Alice Cooper | 4 | |
| 14. | Fleetwood Mac | Fleetwood Mac | 3 | |
| 15. | T.N.T. | AC/DC | 2 | |
| 16. | Piano Man | Billy Joel | 14 | |
| 17. | Atlantic Crossing | Rod Stewart | 1 | 2 (pkd #1 in 1975) |
| 18. | Marcia Shines | Marcia Hines | 4 | |
| 19. | Changesonebowie | David Bowie | 8 | |
| 20. | Blue For You | Status Quo | 3 | |
| 21. | Black and Blue | Rolling Stones | 4 | |
| 22. | Rock 'N' Roll Music | The Beatles | 4 | |
| 23. | Chicago X | Chicago | 3 | |
| 24. | Kiss Alive | Kiss | 13 | |
| 25. | Frampton Comes Alive | Peter Frampton | 8 |
These charts are calculated by David Kent of the Kent Music Report and they are based on the number of weeks and position the records reach within the top 100 albums for each week.
source: David Kent's "Australian Chart Book 1970-1992"
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