List of number-one country albums of 1973 (U.S.)
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These are the U.S. number-one country albums of 1973
, per the Billboard
Top Country Albums chart.
Note that Billboard publishes charts with an issue date approximately 7–10 days in advance.
1973 in country music
This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1973.-Events:*July — The Dean Martin Show becomes known as Dean Martin Presents Music Country for the longtime variety show's summer broadcasts...
, per the Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
Top Country Albums chart.
Note that Billboard publishes charts with an issue date approximately 7–10 days in advance.
| Issue Date | Album | Artist |
| January 6 | The Best of the Best of Merle Haggard | Merle Haggard Merle Haggard Merle Ronald Haggard is an American country music singer, guitarist, fiddler, instrumentalist, and songwriter. Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band The Strangers helped create the Bakersfield sound, which is characterized by the unique twang of Fender Telecaster guitars, vocal harmonies,... |
| January 13 | Got the All Overs for You | Freddie Hart Freddie Hart (musician) Frederick Segrest , known professionally as Freddie Hart, is an American country musician and songwriter best-known for his No. 1 hit "Easy Loving," which won the Country Music Association Song of the Year award in 1971 and 1972.... |
| January 20 | Got the All Overs for You | Freddie Hart |
| January 27 | It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad) It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad) It's Not Love is an album by American country singer Merle Haggard, released in 1972. It reached #1 on the Billboard Country album chart... |
Merle Haggard |
| February 3 | It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad) | Merle Haggard |
| February 10 | It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad) | Merle Haggard |
| February 17 | Songs of Love by Charley Pride | Charley Pride Charley Pride Charley Frank Pride is an American country music singer. His smooth baritone voice was featured on thirty-nine number-one hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. His greatest success came in the early- to mid-1970s, when he became the best-selling performer for RCA Records since Elvis... |
| February 24 | Songs of Love by Charley Pride | Charley Pride |
| March 3 | Songs of Love by Charley Pride | Charley Pride |
| March 10 | Songs of Love by Charley Pride | Charley Pride |
| March 17 | Dueling Banjos | Eric Weissberg Eric Weissberg Eric Weissberg is an American banjo player, best known for the theme from the movie Deliverance.-Biography:Eric Weissberg went to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, then the Juilliard School of Music. He joined an early version of the Greenbriar Boys , but left before they made any recordings.... |
| March 24 | Dueling Banjos | Eric Weissberg |
| March 31 | Dueling Banjos | Eric Weissberg |
| April 7 | Dueling Banjos | Eric Weissberg |
| April 14 | Aloha from Hawaii: Via Satellite Aloha from Hawaii: Via Satellite Aloha from Hawaii: Via Satellite is a live concert album by Elvis Presley, released by RCA Records in February 1973 and peaked on the Billboard chart in the Spring of 1973. Despite the satellite innovation, the United States did not air the concert until April 4, 1973. Aloha from Hawaii went to... |
Elvis Presley Elvis Presley Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King".... |
| April 21 | Aloha from Hawaii: Via Satellite | Elvis Presley |
| April 28 | Aloha from Hawaii: Via Satellite | Elvis Presley |
| May 5 | Aloha from Hawaii: Via Satellite | Elvis Presley |
| May 12 | My Second Album My Second Album My Second Album is the second studio album released by American country artist Donna Fargo. The album was released in February 1973 on Dot Records and was produced by Fargo's husband and manager Stan Silver... |
Donna Fargo Donna Fargo Donna Fargo is an American country music singer-songwriter, who is best-known for a series of Top 10 country hits in the 1970s... |
| May 19 | Super Kind of Woman | Freddie Hart |
| May 26 | Introducing Johnny Rodriguez | Johnny Rodriguez Johnny Rodriguez Johnny Rodriguez is an American country music singer. He was the first famous Latin American country music singer, infusing his music with Latin sounds, and even singing verses of songs in Spanish.... |
| June 2 | Entertainer of the Year – Loretta | Loretta Lynn Loretta Lynn Loretta Lynn is an American country music singer-songwriter, author and philanthropist. Born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky to a coal miner father, Lynn married at 13 years old, was a mother soon after, and moved to Washington with her husband, Oliver Lynn. Their marriage was sometimes tumultuous; he... |
| June 9 | Behind Closed Doors Behind Closed Doors (Charlie Rich album) Behind Closed Doors is a 1973 album by Charlie Rich. The album received three Country Music Association awards: Best Male Vocalist, Album of the Year, and Single of the Year, for the title song written by Kenny O'Dell. The album also went gold... |
Charlie Rich Charlie Rich Charles Rich was an American country music singer and musician. A Grammy Award winner, his eclectic-style of music was often hard to classify in a single genre, playing in the rockabilly, jazz, blues, country, and gospel genres.In the latter part of his life, Rich acquired the nickname The Silver... |
| June 16 | Behind Closed Doors | Charlie Rich |
| June 23 | Behind Closed Doors | Charlie Rich |
| June 30 | Behind Closed Doors | Charlie Rich |
| July 7 | Good Time Charlie | Charlie McCoy Charlie McCoy Charles "Charlie" Ray McCoy is an American musician noted for his harmonica playing. In his career, McCoy has backed several notable musicians including Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Tom Astor, Elvis Presley and Ween. He has also recorded thirty-seven studio albums, including fourteen for Monument Records... |
| July 14 | Behind Closed Doors | Charlie Rich |
| July 21 | Satin Sheets | Jeanne Pruett Jeanne Pruett Jeanne Pruett is an American Country Music Singer and Grand Ole Opry star, best-known for her 1973 chart-topping Country hit, "Satin Sheets", that spent three weeks at No. 1.... |
| July 28 | Satin Sheets | Jeanne Pruett |
| August 4 | Satin Sheets | Jeanne Pruett |
| August 11 | Satin Sheets | Jeanne Pruett |
| August 18 | Satin Sheets | Jeanne Pruett |
| August 25 | Satin Sheets | Jeanne Pruett |
| September 1 | Satin Sheets | Jeanne Pruett |
| September 8 | Satin Sheets | Jeanne Pruett |
| September 15 | Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man This is an article about the album. For the single, see Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man .Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man is a 1973 vocal duet studio album by American country music singer-songwriters, Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty.... |
Conway Twitty Conway Twitty Conway Twitty , born Harold Lloyd Jenkins, was an American country music artist. He also had success in early rock and roll, R&B, and pop music. He held the record for the most number one singles of any act with 55 No. 1 Billboard country hits until George Strait broke the record in 2006... and Loretta Lynn |
| September 22 | I Love Dixie Blues I Love Dixie Blues I Love Dixie Blues is a live album by American country singer Merle Haggard, released in 1973... |
Merle Haggard |
| September 29 | I Love Dixie Blues | Merle Haggard |
| October 6 | You've Never Been This Far Before | Conway Twitty |
| October 13 | You've Never Been This Far Before | Conway Twitty |
| October 20 | You've Never Been This Far Before | Conway Twitty |
| October 27 | Love Is the Foundation Love Is the Foundation Love Is the Foundation is a 1973 studio album by American country music singer-songwriter, Loretta Lynn.Love Is the Foundation was Lynn's second studio album of the year, as well as her second album off of MCA Records. The album's title track was released as the first single, and peaked at #1 on... |
Loretta Lynn |
| November 3 | Jesus Was a Capricorn Jesus Was a Capricorn Jesus Was a Capricorn is the fourth album by Kris Kristofferson, released in 1972 on Monument Records. The album cover pictures Kristofferson and his soon-to-be wife Rita Coolidge... |
Kris Kristofferson Kris Kristofferson Kristoffer "Kris" Kristofferson is an American musician, actor, and writer. He is known for hits such as "Me and Bobby McGee", "For the Good Times", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night"... |
| November 10 | Full Moon Full Moon (Kris Kristofferson album) Full Moon is a duet album by Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge, released in 1973 on A&M Records. It is the first of three duet albums by the couple, who married the year before the album's release... |
Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge Rita Coolidge Rita Coolidge is a multiple Grammy Award-winning American vocalist. During the 1970s and 1980s, she charted hits on Billboard's Pop, Country, Adult Contemporary and Jazz charts.-Career:... |
| November 17 | Paper Roses Paper Roses (album) Paper Roses is the debut studio album by American country music singer, Marie Osmond. It was released in 1973 on MGM Records. It was the first of four MGM albums Osmond would record as solo artist.... |
Marie Osmond Marie Osmond Olive Marie Osmond is an American singer, actress, doll designer, and a member of the show business family The Osmonds. Although she was never part of her family's singing group, she gained success as a solo country music artist in the 1970s and 1980s... |
| November 24 | Paper Roses | Marie Osmond |
| December 1 | Paper Roses | Marie Osmond |
| December 8 | Primrose Lane / Don't Give Up On Me | Jerry Wallace Jerry Wallace Jerry Wallace was an American country and pop singer. Between 1958 and 1964, Wallace charted nine hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including the #8 "Primrose Lane." He made his debut on the country music charts in 1965, entering it thirty-five times between then and 1980. In that timespan, Wallace... |
| December 15 | Behind Closed Doors | Charlie Rich |
| December 22 | Behind Closed Doors | Charlie Rich |
| December 29 | Behind Closed Doors | Charlie Rich |