The following lists the top 25 (end of year) charting albums on the Australian Album Charts, for the year of 1971. These were the best charting albums in Australia for 1971. The source for this year is the "Kent Music Report", known from 1987 onwards as the "Australian Music Report".
| Title | Artist | Highest pos. reached | weeks at No. 1 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Cocker Happy | 1 | 8 | ||
| 2. | Tea for the Tillerman | 2 | |||
| 3. | Mad Dogs and Englishmen | 3 | |||
| 4. | Jesus Christ Superstar | Original Studio Recording | 6 | ||
| 5. | All Things Must Pass | 1 | 8 | ||
| 6. | Ram | 3 | |||
| 7. | Daddy Who? Daddy Cool | 1 | 7 | ||
| 8. | Pearl | 1 | 5 | ||
| 9. | Pendulum | 1 | 3 | ||
| 10. | Tapestry | 3 | |||
| 11. | Paranoid | 5 | |||
| 12. | Abraxas | 1 | 1 | ||
| 13. | Led Zeppelin III | 1 | 4 | ||
| 14. | Cosmo's Factory | 1 | 19 (pkd#1 in 1970 & 71) | ||
| 15. | Deep Purple in Rock | 1 | 2 | ||
| 16. | Candles in the Rain | 2 | |||
| 17. | Every Picture Tells a Story | 1 | 5 | ||
| 18. | Sticky Fingers | 1 | 2 | ||
| 19. | Aqualung | 3 | |||
| 20. | New Morning | 4 | |||
| 21. | L.A. Woman | 9 | |||
| 22. | John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band | 3 | |||
| 23. | Bridge Over Troubled Water | 1 | 15 (pkd #1 in 1970) | ||
| 24. | Elton John | 2 | |||
| 25. | Tumbleweed Connection | 4 |
These charts are calculated by David Kent of the Kent Music Report and they are based on the number of weeks and position the records reach within the top 100 albums for each week.