💿🎶🏆 GRAMMY Award for Album of the Year - Winners

Album of the Year | 1975

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Fulfillingness' First Finale

by   Stevie Wonder

Fulfillingness' First Finale is the seventeenth studio album by American singer, songwriter, musician, and producer Stevie Wonder, released on July 22, 1974, by Tamla, a subsidiary of Motown Records. It is the fourth of five albums from what is considered Wonder's "classic period".

The album was Wonder's second to top the Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart, where it remained for two weeks, and also reached number one on the Billboard Soul LPs chart, where it spent eight non-consecutive weeks between October 5 and Christmas 1974. At the 17th Annual Grammy Awards, it won in three categories: Album of the Year (Wonder's second consecutive win in this category), Best Male Pop Vocal, and Best Male Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance (for "Boogie On Reggae Woman") at the ceremony held in 1975. Retrospectively, the album was voted number 413 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000) and included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

Nominees :

Back Home Again by John Denver

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Band on the Run by Paul McCartney and Wings

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Caribou by Elton John

Court and Spark by Joni Mitchell

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Album of the Year | 1976

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Still Crazy After All These Years

by Paul Simon

Still Crazy After All These Years is the fourth solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Paul Simon, released on October 17, 1975, by Columbia Records. Recorded and released in 1975, the album produced four U.S. Top 40 hits: "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" (No. 1), "Gone at Last" (No. 23, credited to Paul Simon/Phoebe Snow), "My Little Town" (No. 9, credited to Simon & Garfunkel), and the title track (No. 40). It won two Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance in 1976.

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Between the Lines by  Janis Ian

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Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy by Elton John

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Heart Like a Wheel by Linda Ronstadt

One of These Nights by Eagles

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Album of the Year | 1977

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Songs in the Key of Life

by Stevie Wonder

Songs in the Key of Life is the eighteenth studio album by American singer, songwriter and musician Stevie Wonder. A double album, it was released on September 28, 1976, by Tamla Records, a division of Motown. It was recorded primarily at Crystal Sound studio in Hollywood, with some sessions recorded at the Record Plant in Hollywood, the Record Plant in Sausalito, and The Hit Factory in New York City; final mixing was conducted at Crystal Sound.The album has been regarded by music journalists as the culmination of Wonder's "classic period" of recording.

Nominees :

Breezin' by George Benson

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Chicago X by Chicago

Frampton Comes Alive! by Peter Frampton

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 Silk Degrees by  Boz Scaggs

https://link.deezer.com/s/30mZXOaldQ8o7QQvaoB7Z

Album of the Year | 1978

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Rumours

by Fleetwood Mac

Rumours is the eleventh studio album by the British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released on 4 February 1977. The recording sessions took place as the band members dealt with breakups and struggled with heavy drug use, both of which shaped the album's direction and lyrics.

Recorded with the intention of making "a pop album" that would expand on the commercial success of the 1975 album Fleetwood Mac, Rumours contains a mix of electric and acoustic instrumentation, accented rhythms, guitars, and keyboards, with lyrics concerning personal and often troubled relationships. Its release was postponed by delays in the mixing process. The band promoted the album with a worldwide concert tour.

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Aja by Steely Dan

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Hotel California by Eagles

JT by James Taylor

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Star Wars by John Williams

https://link.deezer.com/s/30xjMXp4Yf3EKTWA0cA1n

Album of the Year | 1979

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Saturday Night Fever – Soundtrack

Saturday Night Fever is the soundtrack double album (in 2 Long Play records) from the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever starring John Travolta. The soundtrack was released on November 15, 1977 by RSO Records. Prior to the release of Thriller by Michael Jackson, Saturday Night Fever was the best-selling album in music history, and still ranks among the best-selling soundtrack albums worldwide, with sales figures of over 40 million copies.

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Even Now by Barry Manilow

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Grease (Original Soundtrack) by Various Artists

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Running on Empty by Jackson Browne

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Some Girls by The Rolling Stones

Album of the Year | 1980

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52nd Street

52nd Street is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel, released on October 11, 1978, by Columbia Records. Presenting itself as the follow-up to his breakthrough studio album, The Stranger, Joel tried to give the new album a fresh sound, hiring various jazz musicians to differentiate it from his previous studio albums.

The album's title is a reference to 52nd Street, a popular street location in Midtown Manhattan for jazz musicians, beginning during the Great Depression and continuing through to the 1950s. Joel's label was headquartered within the CBS Building on West 52nd Street at the time of the album's release. The studio where recording took place, A&R Recording, was also on 52nd Street; the studio's freight elevator appears on the album cover.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/52nd_Street_(album)

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Minute by Minute by The Doobie Brothers

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The Gambler by Kenny Rogers

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Bad Girls by  Donna Summer

Breakfast in America by Supertramp

https://link.deezer.com/s/30TXp5FjsvqFcusCYG8Bu

Album of the Year | 1981

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Christopher Cross

Christopher Cross is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Christopher Cross, released on December 27, 1979, by Warner Bros. Records. Produced by Michael Omartian and recorded in July 1979, the album was one of the first in popular music to be digitally recorded, utilizing the 3M Digital Recording System.

Cited as one of the most influential soft rock albums of the late 1970s and early 1980s,[ it won five Grammy Awards at the 1981 Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist, with Cross becoming the first artist to win the four major categories in the same year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Cross_(album)

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Glass Houses by Billy Joel

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The Wall by Pink Floyd

Trilogy: Past Present Future by Frank Sinatra

https://link.deezer.com/s/316ww8GSZBY5JIDFrUzCt

Guilty by Barbra Streisand

https://link.deezer.com/s/316wxeNCYharzbcsFSQpi

Album of the Year | 1982

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Double Fantasy

Double Fantasy is the fifth collaborative studio album by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and the final one before Lennon's death. Released in November 1980 on Geffen Records, the album marked Lennon's return to recording music full-time, following his five-year hiatus to raise his son Sean. Recording sessions took place at the Hit Factory in New York City between August and October 1980. The final album features songs from both Lennon and Ono, largely alternating between the two in its track listing. Other tracks recorded by Lennon from the sessions were compiled by Ono for release on Milk and Honey in 1984.

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Mistaken Identity by Kim Carnes

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Breakin' Away by Al Jarreau

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The Dude by Quincy Jones

Gaucho by Steely Dan

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Album of the Year | 1983

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Toto IV

Toto IV is the fourth studio album by American rock band Toto, released on April 8, 1982, by Columbia Records. The album's lead single, "Rosanna", peaked at number 2 for five weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, while the album's third single, "Africa", topping the Hot 100 chart, became the group's first and only number 1 hit. Both songs were hits in the UK as well, reaching number 12 and 3, respectively.The fourth single, "I Won't Hold You Back", also peaked within the top ten on the Hot 100, at number 10 and atop the Billboard Adult Contemporary charts for three weeks. It also went into the top 40 in the UK. With the success of "Africa", the album climbed back into the top 10 in early 1983 on both sides of the Atlantic.

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American Fool by John Cougar

The Nightfly by Donald Fagen

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The Nylon Curtain by Billy Joel

https://link.deezer.com/s/31CFV3IdeSrTIzMiWnAEd

Tug of War by Paul McCartney

https://link.deezer.com/s/31CFW4rzHRVIro2R9g7Fg

Album of the Year | 1984

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Thriller

Thriller is the sixth studio album by the American singer and songwriter Michael Jackson, released on November 29, 1982, by Epic Records. It was produced by Quincy Jones, who previously worked with Jackson on his album Off the Wall (1979). Recording took place from April to November 1982 at Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California. With the ongoing backlash against disco music, Jackson moved in a new musical direction, resulting in darker themes and a mix of genres, including rock for the first time. Paul McCartney appears as the first credited featured artist on a Jackson album.

Nominees :

Let's Dance by David Bowie

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An Innocent Man by Billy Joel

https://link.deezer.com/s/31Sw67JWECkrQQtQfycsB

Synchronicity by The Police

Flashdance: Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture by VA

https://link.deezer.com/s/31Sw8DN2IBnnAnCx6obmA