The following lists the top 25 (end of year) charting albums on the Australian Album Charts, for the year of 1978. These were the best charting albums in Australia for 1978. 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. | Saturday Night Fever | Various Artists | 1 | 13 | |
| 2. | Bat Out of Hell | 1 | 8 | ||
| 3. | Grease | Various Artists | 1 | 9 (also pkd #1 in 1991 for 2 weeks) | |
| 4. | Simple Dreams | 1 | 5 | ||
| 5. | The Stranger | 2 | |||
| 6. | The War of the Worlds | Jeff Wayne & Various Artists | 1 | 7 | |
| 7. | Rumours | 1 | 8 (pkd #1 in 1977 & 78) | ||
| 8. | City to City | 3 | |||
| 9. | Some Girls | 3 | |||
| 10. | The Kick Inside | 3 | |||
| 11. | Out of the Blue | 3 | |||
| 12. | Kaya | 5 | |||
| 13. | Down Two Then Left | 4 | |||
| 14. | Macho Man | 5 | |||
| 15. | Weekend in L. A. | 5 | |||
| 16. | Foot Loose and Fancy Free | 1 | 9 (pkd #1 in 1977 & 78) | ||
| 17. | Nightflight to Venus | 7 | |||
| 18. | Sleeper Catcher | 4 | |||
| 19. | Leif Garrett | 2 | |||
| 20. | Silk Degrees | 1 | 18 (pkd #1 in 1977) | ||
| 21. | Street Legal | 5 | |||
| 22. | A New World Record | 1 | 9 (pkd #1 in 1977) | ||
| 23. | Living in the USA | 3 | |||
| 24. | Stranger in Town | 12 | |||
| 25. | London Town | 3 |
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.