This article lists the Canadian number-one albums of 1975. The chart was compiled and published by RPM every Saturday.
The top position (December 28, 1974, Vol. 22, No. 19) preceding January 11, 1975 (Vol. 24, No. 15) was Jim Croce's Photographs & Memories.Library and Archives Canada. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.3915a&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=bpaoqg9jkfeab1nb4cd60qugq0 Elton John's Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy entered the chart at #1.Library and Archives Canada. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-111.01-e.php?PHPSESSID=uedodpq8fqer780h1nm9nodr37&brws=2&q1=1975&q2=01&q3=01&interval=20 Elton John held the top position in the albums and singles charts simultaneously on January 11 – February 1.List of RPM number-one singles of 1975
(Entries with dates marked thus* are not presently on record at Library and Archives Canada and were inferred from the following week's listing. The issue that should have been published on October 11 is dated October 13. There were no publications from November 8 through December 6. The November 1 chart, Vol. 24, No. 9, is followed by December 13's chart, Vol. 24, No. 10-11-12. No "last week" positions were specified on this issue's chart, indicating that the charting process was restarted.)
Issue date Album Artist January 4 Photographs & MemoriesJim Croce January 11 Elton John's Greatest Hits Elton John January 18 January 25 February 1 February 8* February 15 February 22 March 1 March 8 March 15 March 22 March 29 Blood on the Tracks Bob Dylan April 4 April 12 Physical Graffiti Led Zeppelin April 19 April 26 May 3 May 10 May 17 An Evening with John Denver John Denver May 24 May 31 Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy Elton John June 7 June 14 June 21 June 28 July 5 July 12 July 19 July 26 Venus and Mars Wings August 2 Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy Elton John August 9 August 16 August 23 August 30 September 6 September 13 Venus and Mars Wings September 20 Fandango! ZZ Top September 27 October 4 Four Wheel Drive Bachman-Turner Overdrive October 13 Greatest Hits Cat Stevens October 18 Four Wheel Drive Bachman-Turner Overdrive October 25 Windsong John Denver November 1 November 8 November 15 November 22 November 29 December 6 December 13 December 20 December 25 Rock of the Westies Elton John
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See also 1975 in music RPM number-one hits of 1975