Once you take a look at the traditional albums that arrived in 1973, it’s laborious to think about a greater yr for rock followers.
Pink Floyd launched its magnum opus, The Darkish Aspect of the Moon in March 1973, which has offered over 50 million albums worldwide. The British group’s eighth studio album logged 736 weeks on Billboard’s Prime 200 albums chart earlier than lastly making an exit in July 1988. But it surely’s continued to make intermittent returns to the chart since then, spending a total of 962 weeks out and in of the lineup as of December 2022.
It’s hardly the lone spotlight as many different notable data additionally arrived in 1973.
The unique Alice Cooper group launched one in all their hottest albums — and with a second launch later that very same yr, put a shock wrap on their time collectively.
Bruce Springsteen, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Queen had been amongst these making their official album debuts in 1973. In the meantime Elton John, Black Sabbath, Billy Joel and ZZ Prime launched trailblazing data that may change into a number of the most essential career-defining energy strikes in every of their particular person catalogs.
The under listing collects 50 of the biggest albums from an unimaginable yr in music, in chronological order. As you may learn, every file represents one thing completely different for the bands and artists, however in almost each case, it added an attention-grabbing milestone to their profession.
