List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 1975 explained

These are the Billboard magazine number-one albums of 1975, per the Billboard 200.

Chart history

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	Indicates best performing album of 1975

scope=col	Issue date	scope=col	Album	scope=col	Artist(s)	scope=col	Label	scope=col class="unsortable"
	bgcolor=#FFFF99 style="text-align: center;" rowspan=5	Elton John's Greatest Hits		MCA	^[1]
	^[2]
	^[3]
	^[4]
	^[5]
	Fire	Ohio Players	Mercury	^[6]
	Heart Like a Wheel		Capitol	^[7]
	AWB	Average White Band	Atlantic	^[8]
	Blood on the Tracks		Columbia	^[9]
	^[10]
	Have You Never Been Mellow		MCA	^[11]
	Physical Graffiti	Led Zeppelin	Swan Song	^[12]
	^[13]
	^[14]
	^[15]
	^[16]
	^[17]
	Chicago VIII	Chicago	Columbia	^[18]
	^[19]
	That's the Way of the World	Earth, Wind & Fire	Columbia	^[20]
	^[21]
	^[22]
	Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy	Elton John	MCA	^[23]
	^[24]
	^[25]
	^[26]
	^[27]
	^[28]
	Venus and Mars	Wings	Capitol	^[29]
	One of These Nights	Eagles	Asylum	^[30]
	^[31]
	^[32]
	^[33]
	^[34]
	Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy	Elton John	MCA	^[35]
	Red Octopus	Jefferson Starship	Grunt	^[36]
	The Heat Is On	The Isley Brothers	T-Neck	^[37]
	Between the Lines		Columbia	^[38]
	Red Octopus	Jefferson Starship	Grunt	^[39]
	Wish You Were Here	Pink Floyd	Columbia	^[40]
	^[41]
	Windsong		RCA	^[42]
	^[43]
	Red Octopus	Jefferson Starship	Grunt	^[44]
	Rock of the Westies	Elton John	MCA	^[45]
	^[46]
	^[47]
	Red Octopus	Jefferson Starship	Grunt	^[48]
	Still Crazy After All These Years		Columbia	^[49]
		Chicago	Columbia	^[50]
	^[51]
	^[52]