Top 10 Best Selling Country Albums from the 70s

Country music was just starting to find it's place in the world of music at this time. Let's see how our country crooners did.

10. Conway Twitty is well known for his sultry voice and his many love songs. In the 70s he did a few duets with the great Loretta Lynn, which made his popular albums even more so. Twitty had many number one albums and singles to mark his success in the music field.

9. Marty Robbins was a great story teller, painting the scenes for numerous country settings. His albums from the 70s include El Paso, You Gave Me A Mountain and My Woman, My Woman, My Wife. Robbins could sing lovely love ballads as well as tales of the old west. He was one of the great "story telling artists" from this genre.

8. Waylon Jennings debuted in the seventies, with hit after hit. Teaming up with Willie Nelson didn't hurt things at all. The two belted out hits like (Mommas), Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys and Good Hearted Woman.

7. It was a good decade for Mr. John Denver. He ended up with three slots on this top 10 list. His album, Rocky Mountain High, debuted in 1972 and was #99 in the top 100 albums for the 70s. You will find more about this great man further in the top 10.

6. Where would country music be without this guy? Wille Nelson's first album, Red-headed Stranger land at #95 for the top selling albums of the 70s. Every one knows Willie, a country music icon famous for his duets with Waylon, Merle, and countless other stars of country music.

5. This brother/sister duo had several hits on the country stations. The Carpenters harmonized great together and their album, A Song For You, ranked #86. They had such hits as Close To You and End of the World.

3. and 4. go to John Denver for two albums released that year. At number 82 in the countdown was his album entitled An evening With John Denver. And at 83 was Back Home Again. Denver's breakout albums lead to many awards in his cut-short career. One song made quite popular by Denver was about being proud to be country, I am referring of course to, Thank God I'm A Country Boy.

2.. Charlie Rich's album, Behind Closed Doors, came in at number 59. This song still receives lots of air time on classic country radio stations.

1. Kenny Rogers' album, The Gambler, placed number 39 in the Top 100 Best Selling Records of the 1970s list. Roger's title cut song was a huge hit and also lead to five movies about Brady Hawkes, a.k.a. The Gambler.

So, there you have the top 10 selling albums in the seventies.