List of number-one country albums of 1976 (U.S.)
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These are the U.S. number-one country albums of 1976
, per the Billboard
Top Country Albums chart.
Note that Billboard publishes charts with an issue date approximately 7–10 days in advance.
1976 in country music
This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1976.-No dates:*The CB radio craze was sweeping country music, as no less than three No. 1 songs are about citizens-band radios. C. W. McCall's "Convoy" — about a band of truck drivers who fight back against redneck...
, 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 3 | Black Bear Road Black Bear Road (album) Black Bear Road is an album by country musician C. W. McCall, released on MGM Records in 1975 . It is largely considered the album which gave him the most significant boost of his career, almost entirely due to the hit novelty song, "Convoy", that hit the number one spot on both Billboard's Country... |
C. W. McCall C. W. McCall C. W. McCall is the pseudonym of William Dale Fries, Jr. , an American singer, activist and politician known for his truck-themed outlaw country songs.-Biography:... |
| January 10 | Black Bear Road | C. W. McCall |
| January 17 | Black Bear Road | C. W. McCall |
| January 24 | Black Bear Road | C. W. McCall |
| January 31 | Black Bear Road | C. W. McCall |
| February 7 | Black Bear Road | C. W. McCall |
| February 14 | Black Bear Road | C. W. McCall |
| February 21 | Black Bear Road | C. W. McCall |
| February 28 | Wanted! The Outlaws Wanted! The Outlaws Wanted! The Outlaws is an album by Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Jessi Colter, and Tompall Glaser, released in RCA Victor in 1976, and consisting of previously released material. Released to capitalize on the new outlaw country movement, Wanted! The Outlaws earned its place in music history by... |
Various Artists |
| March 6 | Wanted! The Outlaws | Various Artists |
| March 13 | Wanted! The Outlaws | Various Artists |
| March 20 | Wanted! The Outlaws | Various Artists |
| March 27 | Wanted! The Outlaws | Various Artists |
| April 3 | Wanted! The Outlaws | Various Artists |
| April 10 | Elite Hotel Elite Hotel Elite Hotel was Emmylou Harris's second album to be released in 1975, following the widely acclaimed success of Pieces of the Sky, and surpassed it on the Billboard Music Charts, becoming her first #1 country album... |
Emmylou Harris Emmylou Harris Emmylou Harris is an American singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including... |
| April 17 | Elite Hotel | Emmylou Harris |
| April 24 | The Sound in Your Mind The Sound in Your Mind The Sound in Your Mind is the second Columbia Records album by country musician Willie Nelson.-Side one:#"That Lucky Old Sun " 2:20... |
Willie Nelson Willie Nelson Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized... |
| May 1 | It's All in the Movies It's All in the Movies It's All in the Movies is an album by American country singer Merle Haggard, released in 1976.-Track listing:#"It's All in the Movies" – 3:15#"Nothing's Worse Than Losing" – 2:58... |
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,... |
| May 8 | The Sound in Your Mind | Willie Nelson |
| May 15 | The Sound in Your Mind | Willie Nelson |
| May 22 | The Sound in Your Mind | Willie Nelson |
| May 29 | The Sound in Your Mind | Willie Nelson |
| June 5 | The Sound in Your Mind | Willie Nelson |
| June 12 | The Sound in Your Mind | Willie Nelson |
| June 19 | The Sound in Your Mind | Willie Nelson |
| June 26 | Harmony Harmony (Don Williams album) Harmony is the title of the fifth studio album released by country music artist Don Williams. It was released in 1976 and is his only album to have reached #1 on the Top Country Albums chart. The three singles released from this album, "Till the Rivers All Run Dry", "Say It Again" and "She Never... |
Don Williams Don Williams Don Williams , is an American country singer, songwriter and a 2010 inductee to the Country Music Hall of Fame. He grew up in Portland, Texas, and graduated in 1958 from Gregory-Portland High School. After seven years with the folk-pop group Pozo-Seco Singers, he began his solo career in 1971,... |
| July 3 | Harmony | Don Williams |
| July 10 | From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee is an album by Elvis Presley, released in 1976 on RCA Records. It is often mistaken that this is a concert recording as the album states the songs were "recorded live". While this is true, the songs were recorded live in the recording studio at a... |
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".... |
| July 17 | From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee | Elvis Presley |
| July 24 | From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee | Elvis Presley |
| July 31 | From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee | Elvis Presley |
| August 7 | United Talent | 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 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... |
| August 14 | Are You Ready for the Country Are You Ready for the Country Are You Ready for the Country is an album by Waylon Jennings, released on RCA Victor in 1976. Its title track is a song from Neil Young's seminal 1972 album Harvest... |
Waylon Jennings Waylon Jennings Waylon Arnold Jennings was an American country music singer, songwriter, and musician. Jennings began playing at eight. He began performing at twelve, on KVOW radio. Jennings formed a band The Texas Longhorns. Jennings worked as a D.J on KVOW, KDAV and KLLL... |
| August 21 | Are You Ready for the Country | Waylon Jennings |
| August 28 | Teddy Bear | Red Sovine Red Sovine Woodrow Wilson Sovine , better known as Red Sovine, was an American country music singer associated with truck driving songs, particularly those recited as narratives but set to music... |
| September 4 | Are You Ready for the Country | Waylon Jennings |
| September 11 | Are You Ready for the Country | Waylon Jennings |
| September 18 | Are You Ready for the Country | Waylon Jennings |
| September 25 | Are You Ready for the Country | Waylon Jennings |
| October 2 | Hasten Down the Wind Hasten Down the Wind Hasten Down The Wind is a 1976 album by singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt and was Ronstadt's third straight million-selling album. Ronstadt was the first female artist in history to accomplish this feat. The album earned Ronstadt a Grammy for "Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female" in 1977,... |
Linda Ronstadt Linda Ronstadt Linda Ronstadt is an American popular music recording artist. She has earned eleven Grammy Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, an ALMA Award, numerous United States and internationally certified gold, platinum and multiplatinum albums, in addition to Tony Award and Golden... |
| October 9 | Hasten Down the Wind | Linda Ronstadt |
| October 16 | Are You Ready for the Country | Waylon Jennings |
| October 23 | Hasten Down the Wind | Linda Ronstadt |
| October 30 | Golden Ring | George Jones George Jones George Glenn Jones is an American country music singer known for his long list of hit records, his distinctive voice and phrasing, and his marriage to Tammy Wynette.... and Tammy Wynette Tammy Wynette Virginia Wynette Pugh, known professionally as Tammy Wynette , was an American country music singer-songwriter and one of the genre's best-known artists and biggest-selling female vocalists.... |
| November 6 | Here's Some Love Here's Some Love Here's Some Love is Tanya Tucker's sixth album, and would be the only number-one Country Album that she would have on the Billboard charts... |
Tanya Tucker Tanya Tucker Tanya Denise Tucker is a female American country music artist who had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", in 1972 at the age of 13... |
| November 13 | El Paso City | Marty Robbins Marty Robbins Martin David Robinson , known professionally as Marty Robbins, was an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist... |
| November 20 | The Troublemaker | Willie Nelson |
| November 27 | The Troublemaker | Willie Nelson |
| December 4 | The Troublemaker | Willie Nelson |
| December 11 | Somebody Somewhere | Loretta Lynn |
| December 18 | Are You Ready for the Country | Waylon Jennings |
| December 25 | Are You Ready for the Country | Waylon Jennings |