Spotify's most streamed albums of the 60's, 70's, and 80's

[baraka92]

Hi guys! Just for fun I went deep on chartmasters.com and tried my best to make these lists since I haven't seen anything similar before.

A few observations:
- Only albums with +500m streams
- No compilations (Although, i guess you can argue that 2 albums in here are compilations).
- I added different versions of songs if they kept the same arrangement. Things like mono-stereo versions that have different numbers.
- Just the original releases. No single edits, no bonus tracks, no live performances, no alternate takes.
- Of course I could have missed a few albums. I tried my best. This was just for fun.

60's

1. The Beatles - Abbey Road - 1,526,335,549
2. The Beatles - The Beatles - 966,798,110
3. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Willy and the Poor Boys - 861,741,275
4. The Beatles - Help! - 703,990,716
5. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II - 674,830,832
6. Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - United - 610,369,245
7. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - 591,912,229
8. The Rolling Stones - Aftermath (US) - 584,255,469
9. The Beatles - Please Please Me - 580,652,009
10. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland - 575,049,039
11. The Doors - The Doors - 571,926,010
12. The Beatles - Rubber Soul - 559,702,102
13. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds - 557,148,780
14. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced? - 552,502,915
15. The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour - 544,798,112
16. The Beatles – Revolver - 524,806,140

70's

1. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours - 1,999,070,772
2. Queen - A Night at the Opera - 1,892,170,288
3. Pink Floyd - The Wall - 1,489,432,354
4. Bob Marley and The Wailers - Exodus - 1,263,082,785
5. Queen - Jazz - 1,212,025,729
6. Bee Gees & Other Artists - Saturday Night Fever (The Original Movie Soundtrack) - 1,169,829,186
7. Queen - News of the World - 1,100,058,769
8. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon - 1,050,542,248
9. Eagles - Hotel California - 1,019,452,905
10. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV - 1,017,381,644
11. Black Sabbath - Paranoid - 833,517,584
12. AC/DC - Highway to Hell - 832,954,020
13. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping - 762,291,349
14. Various Artists - Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture - 700,615,344
15. Lynyrd Skynyrd - (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd) - 676,846,356
16. Boston - Boston - 657,399,650
17. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here - 645,459,058
18. ABBA - Arrival - 635,773,312
19. Dire Straits - Dire Straits - 634,422,672
20. Bob Marley and The Wailers - Kaya - 634,422,672
21. Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water - 631,851,363
22. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Pendulum - 622,390,060
23. Queen - A Day at the Races - 618,724,440
24. The Beatles - Let It Be - 611,696,940
25. Michael Jackson - Off the Wall - 581,860,912
26. Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue - 574,327,406
27. The Who - Who's Next - 573,006,505
28. Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac - 555,266,729
29. Billy Joel - The Stranger - 548,329,034
30. Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - 537,228,894
31. Elton John - Honky Chateau - 535,631,225
32. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III - 525,075,909
33. David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - 523,451,626
34. Eric Clapton - Slowhand - 501,916,396

80's

1. Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction - 2,182,792,241
2. Michael Jackson - Thriller - 2,012,982,194
3. AC/DC - Back in Black - 1,602,750,192
4. Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet - 1,398,940,331
5. Queen - The Game - 1,321,492,519
6. Michael Jackson - Bad - 1,241,082,906
7. Journey - Escape - 1,136,000,313
8. TOTO - TOTO IV - 1,081,354,229
9. U2 - The Joshua Tree - 981,689,763
10. Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A. - 903,218,748
11. Bryan Adams - Reckless - 881,237,682
12. Queen - Hot Space - 859,059,156
13- A-ha - Hunting High and Low - 843,801,632
14. The Police - Synchronicity - 833,696,702
15. Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual - 826,058,772
16. Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms - 815,154,078
17. Bob Marley and The Wailers - Uprising - 729,699,581
18. Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman - 721,389,107
19. The Clash - Combat Rock - 709,732,177
20. Van Halen - 1984 - 695,037,211
21. Whitney Houston - Whitney - 683,380,420
22. Fleetwood Mac - Tango in the Night - 655,277,067
23. Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - 633,544,826
24. Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair 625,327,176
25. Survivor - Eye of the Tiger 613,463,330
26. N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton - 603,876,258
27. Metallica - Master of Puppets - 553,413,837
28. Daryl Hall and John Oates - Voices - 548,970,654
29. Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever - 536,803,084
30. Wham! - Make It Big - 531,591,225
31. Paul Simon - Graceland - 530,462,595

From the top of my head, A Hard Day's Night, Bookends, Led Zeppelin I, Cosmo's Factory, Moondance, L.A. Woman, Imagine, Transformer, Sheer Heart Attack, Toys in the Attic, High Voltage, Songs in the Key of Life, Outlandos d'Amour, Breakfast in America, London Calling, The Number of the Beast, The Queen is Dead, Kick, And Justice for All and Dr. Feelgood are among the albums with +400m streams.

Takeaways:

Not surprisingly, almost the entire discography of The Beatles is above 500m. Side note: Their non-album singles, alone, are above 1b streams.

Barely any female representation. On another side note. What's up with Madonna's awful numbers on Spotify. She's currently out of the top 250. Considering her legacy and commercial success, she should be on the level of Elton John, Led Zeppelin or U2, but she's far behind the three of them. What happened? Soon, she'll be outpaced by Whitney too.

Albums that aren't well remembered like United, Voices, Make It Big, Hot Space, Eye of the Tiger and Sweet Dreams are carried by just one massive song. One-song-albums if you please (some of them have several tracks with less than 1m streams).
At the same time there are some classics that rely heavily on just one song: Hotel California, Synchronicity, A Night at the Opera and Aftermath.
I don't think Wish You Were Here belongs in that last category. It's a 5 track album with the least popular being 12 minutes long with 28m streams. Not bad.
Escape and TOTO IV are in here pretty much because of memes but at least both have a second song with +100m streams.

Man! John Travolta IS the 70's icon.

Harvest, Purple Rain and Hysteria would definitely be somewhere in here if they hadn't been unavailable for long periods of time.

I didn't get to do the 90's, but if I'm not wrong, these are all the albums that reach the 1b mark: Californication, Blood Sugar Sex Magic, Metallica, Dookie, Ten, Ready to Die, Life After Death, All Eyez on Me, (What's the Story) Morning Glory, 2001 and Nevermind.

[panam]

I was looking for a Spanish language album that have those ranges of streams and i only found Luis Miguel's 'Busca Una Mujer" from 1988 with 558,449,499 streams so "Master of puppets" & company goes down a position.

[Jirin]

Most not too surprising, but I've never heard of United.