List of number-one R&B albums of 1975 (U.S.)
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These are the Billboard magazine R&B albums
that reached number one in 1975.
See also: 1975 in music
, List of number-one R&B singles of 1975 (U.S.)
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The name of the chart was changed from Top R&B Albums in 1999...
that reached number one in 1975.
See also: 1975 in music
1975 in music
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, List of number-one R&B singles of 1975 (U.S.)
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| January 4 | Fire Fire (Ohio Players album) -Track listing:*All Songs Written By Ohio Players.#"Fire" #"Together" #"Runnin' From The Devil" #"I Want to Be Free" #"Smoke" #"It's All Over" #"What the Hell"... |
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| January 11 | Fire | The Ohio Players | ||||||
| January 18 | Fire | The Ohio Players | ||||||
| January 25 | Fire | The Ohio Players | ||||||
| February 1 | Fire | The Ohio Players | ||||||
| February 8 | Kung Fu Fighting and Other Great Love Songs | Carl Douglas Carl Douglas Carl Douglas is a former Jamaican-born, UK-based, singer, best known for his song "Kung Fu Fighting", which hit number one in both the UK Singles Chart and the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1974. The R.I.A.A. awarded gold disc status on 27 November, and it won a Grammy Award for Best Selling Single... >- |
February 15 | New and Improved | The Spinners | |||
| February 22 | Do It ('Til You're Satisfied) Do It ('Til You're Satisfied) (album) Do It is the debut album by the Brooklyn, New York band B.T. Express. Released in 1974 on Scepter Records. The album would chart number one on the R&B charts and number five on the Pop charts... |
B.T. Express B.T. Express B.T. Express was an American funk/disco group, that had a number of successful songs during the 1970s.-Career:... |
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| March 1 | AWB AWB (album) AWB is the second studio album by the Scottish funk and soul band Average White Band, released in August 1974 . An enormous best-seller, AWB was the Average White Band's breakthrough record, stunning many listeners with its soul and funk coming from a Scottish band.AWB topped Billboard's Pop... |
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| March 8 | AWB | Average White Band | ||||||
| March 15 | AWB | Average White Band | ||||||
| March 22 | Al Green Explores Your Mind Al Green Explores Your Mind Al Green Explores Your Mind is the eighth album by soul singer Al Green. Unlike previous Al Green albums, this album only featured one major hit, the U.S. #7 hit "Sha-La-La ", but did contain the original version of "Take Me to the River", a song which went to #26 on the Billboard chart when... |
Al Green Al Green Albert Greene , better known as Al Green, is an American gospel and soul music singer. He reached the peak of his popularity in the 1970s, with hit singles such as "You Oughta Be With Me", "I'm Still In Love With You", "Love and Happiness", and "Let's Stay Together"... |
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| March 29 | Perfect Angel Perfect Angel In 1973, a college intern for Epic Records found Riperton in semi-retirement. She had become a homemaker and a mother of two in Gainesville, Florida. After he heard a demo of the song "Seeing You This Way", the rep took the tape to Don Ellis, VP of A&R for Epic... |
Minnie Ripperton | ||||||
| April 5 | Perfect Angel | Minnie Ripperton | ||||||
| April 12 | Perfect Angel | >- | April 19 | That's the Way of the World That's the Way of the World -1999 reissue:-Covers and samples:"Reasons", the album's breakout love ballad, has been covered by Stanley Turrentine, Ramsey Lewis, Maxi Priest and other artists. "Reasons" has also been sampled by Master P on Intro/17... |
Earth, Wind & Fire Earth, Wind & Fire Earth, Wind & Fire is an American soul and R&B band formed in Chicago, Illinois, in 1969 by Verdine and Maurice White. Also known as EWF, the band has won six Grammy Awards and four American Music Awards. They have been inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Vocal Group Hall of... >- |
April 26 | That's the Way of the World | Earth, Wind & Fire |
| May 3 | A Song for You | The Temptations The Temptations The Temptations is an American vocal group having achieved fame as one of the most successful acts to record for Motown Records. The group's repertoire has included, at various times during its five-decade career, R&B, doo-wop, funk, disco, soul, and adult contemporary music.Formed in Detroit,... |
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| May 10 | To Be True To Be True -Personnel:*Harold Melvin, Teddy Pendergrass, Bernard Wilson, Lawrence Brown, Jerry Cummings – vocals*Sharon Paige – female vocalist on "Hope That We Can Be Together Soon"*MFSB – music-Charts:AlbumSingles-Samples:... |
Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes | ||||||
| May 17 | Mister Magic Mister Magic Mister Magic is a 1975 album by jazz saxophonist Grover Washington, Jr. The album topped both the soul and jazz albums chart and peaked at number ten on the Pop albums chart.-Track listing:#Earth Tones" - 12:20... |
Grover Washington, Jr. Grover Washington, Jr. Grover Washington, Jr. was an American jazz-funk / soul-jazz saxophonist. Along with George Benson, John Klemmer, David Sanborn, Bob James, Chuck Mangione, Herb Alpert, and Spyro Gyra, he is considered by many to be one of the founders of the smooth jazz genre.He wrote some of his material and... |
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| May 24 | Sun Goddess Sun Goddess (album) Sun Goddess is a 1974 jazz album by Ramsey Lewis.-About the album:After his classic acoustic albums in the 1960s, Ramsey Lewis wanted to head into a new musical direction in the then-new decade of the 1970s... |
Ramsey Lewis Ramsey Lewis Ramsey Emmanuel Lewis, Jr. is an American jazz composer, pianist and radio personality. Ramsey Lewis has recorded over 80 albums and has received seven gold records and three Grammy Awards so far in his career.-Biography:... |
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| May 31 | Just Another Way to Say I Love You Just Another Way to Say I Love You Just Another Way to Say I Love You is the self-produced fourth album by American R&B singer Barry White, released in 1975 on the 20th Century label. The album topped the US R&B chart and peaked at #17 on the pop chart. It also reached #12 in the UK... |
Barry White Barry White Barry White, born Barry Eugene Carter , was an American composer and singer-songwriter.A five-time Grammy Award-winner known for his distinctive bass voice and romantic image, White's greatest success came in the 1970s as a solo singer and with the Love Unlimited Orchestra, crafting many enduring... |
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| June 7 | Survival Survival (The O'Jays album) -Charts:AlbumSingles-External links:* at Discogs... |
The O'Jays The O'Jays The O'Jays are an American R&B group from Canton, Ohio, formed in 1963 and originally consisting of Eddie Levert , Walter Williams , William Powell , Bobby Massey and Bill Isles. The O'Jays were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2004, and The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005... |
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| June 14 | Survival | The O'Jays | ||||||
| June 21 | That's the Way of the World | Earth, Wind & Fire | ||||||
| June 28 | That's the Way of the World | Earth, Wind & Fire | ||||||
| July 5 | That's the Way of the World | Earth, Wind & Fire | ||||||
| July 12 | Disco Baby | Van McCoy Van McCoy Van Allen Clinton McCoy was an accomplished musician, music producer, arranger, songwriter, and orchestra conductor. He is known best for his 1975 internationally successful song "The Hustle", which is still played in dance halls and on radio to this day more than thirty years since his death... |
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| July 19 | The Heat Is On | The Isley Brothers The Isley Brothers The Isley Brothers are a highly influential, successful and long-running American music group consisting of different line-ups of six brothers, and a brother-in-law, Chris Jasper... |
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| July 26 | The Heat Is On | The Isley Brothers | ||||||
| August 2 | The Heat Is On | The Isley Brothers | ||||||
| August 9 | Chocolate Chip | Isaac Hayes Isaac Hayes Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. was an American songwriter, musician, singer and actor. Hayes was one of the creative influences behind the southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served both as an in-house songwriter and as a record producer, teaming with his partner David Porter during the... |
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| August 16 | Chocolate Chip | Isaac Hayes | ||||||
| August 23 | Cut the Cake Cut the Cake (album) Cut the Cake is the third album released by Average White Band, released in 1975. This album included the hit single "Cut the Cake", which reached #10 on the Billboard pop singles chart.... |
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| August 30 | Why Can't We Be Friends? Why Can't We Be Friends? Why Can't We Be Friends? is the seventh studio album by War.-Reception:Recorded in 1974 and released on United Artists Records in June 1975. The title song reached #8 on Billboard's Hot 100. The original LP edition came with a poster. Two singles from the album were released: "Why Can't We Be... |
War War (band) War is an American funk band from California, known for the hit songs "Low Rider", "Spill the Wine", "The Cisco Kid" and "Why Can't We Be Friends?". Formed in 1969, War was a musical crossover band which fused elements of rock, funk, jazz, Latin, rhythm and blues, and reggae... |
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| September 6 | Non-Stop | B.T. Express | ||||||
| September 13 | Non-Stop | B.T. Express | ||||||
| September 20 | The Heat Is On | The Isley Brothers | ||||||
| September 27 | Honey | The Ohio Players | ||||||
| October 4 | Honey | The Ohio Players | ||||||
| October 11 | ...Is It Something I Said? ...Is It Something I Said? …Is It Something I Said? is the fourth official album release by Richard Pryor and the first he released on a new contract with Warner Bros. Records, a label he remained with for the rest of his recording career.... |
Richard Pryor Richard Pryor Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor was an American stand-up comedian, actor, social critic, writer and MC. Pryor was known for uncompromising examinations of racism and topical contemporary issues, which employed colorful vulgarities, and profanity, as well as racial epithets... |
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| October 18 | ...Is It Something I Said? | Richard Pryor | ||||||
| October 25 | Honey | The Ohio Players | ||||||
| November 1 | Al Green Is Love Al Green Is Love Al Green Is Love is the ninth album by soul singer Al Green. It was his final of six consecutive albums to hit #1 on the R&B/Soul Albums chart, and it peaked into the Top 40 on the Pop Albums chart.- Track listing :... |
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| November 8 | Al Green Is Love | Al Green | ||||||
| November 15 | KC and the Sunshine Band KC and the Sunshine Band (album) KC and the Sunshine Band is the second studio album of the hugely successful disco group KC and the Sunshine Band. The album contained three major hit songs—"That's the Way ", "Get Down Tonight", and "Boogie Shoes".... |
KC and the Sunshine Band KC and the Sunshine Band KC and the Sunshine Band is an American musical group. Founded in 1973 in Miami, Florida, their style has included funk, R&B, and disco. Their most well known songs include the disco hits "That's the Way ", " Shake Your Booty", "I'm Your Boogie Man", "Keep It Comin' Love", "Get Down Tonight", "Give... |
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| November 22 | Inseparable Inseparable (album) Inseparable is the debut album from singer Natalie Cole, released in 1975 on the Capitol label. The album became her first gold-certified album and spawned the number-one R&B hits "This Will Be" and "Inseparable" and helped the young singer win two Grammy Awards including Best New... |
Natalie Cole Natalie Cole Natalie Maria Cole , is an American singer, songwriter and performer. The daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole, Cole rode to musical success in the mid-1970s as an R&B artist with the hits "This Will Be ", "Inseparable" and "Our Love"... |
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| November 29 | Save Me Save Me (Silver Convention album) Save Me is the debut album of Silver Convention a disco group consisting of three female vocalists and two producers/songwriters .-Reception:... |
Silver Convention Silver Convention Silver Convention was a German euro disco recording act of the 1970s. The group was originally named Silver Bird Convention, or Silver Bird.-Career:... |
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| December 6 | Let's Do It Again | The Staple Singers The Staple Singers The Staple Singers were an American gospel, soul, and R&B singing group. Roebuck "Pops" Staples , the patriarch of the family, formed the group with his children Cleotha , Pervis , Yvonne , and Mavis... |
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| December 13 | Let's Do It Again | The Staple Singers | ||||||
| December 20 | Feels So Good Feels So Good Feels So Good is the second album by Atomic Kitten and features the hit singles "It's OK!", "Tide Is High ", "The Last Goodbye / Be With You" and "Love Doesn't Have To Hurt".... |
Grover Washington, Jr. | ||||||
| December 27 | Family Reunion Family Reunion (album) Family Reunion is a 1975 album by American R&B group The O'Jays.-Reception:Released late 1975 on the Philadelphia International Records label... |
The O'Jays | ||||||