This article lists the Canadian number-one albums of 1974.
[1] The chart was compiled and published by RPM every Saturday.
[2] Three acts held the top position in the albums and singles charts simultaneously: Love Unlimited on March 2, Gordon Lightfoot on June 22 – 29 and Elton John on August 10.
As well, Marvin Hamlisch's "The Entertainer" taken from The Sting topped the chart on May 25 as the soundtrack to the film topped the album charts .
[3] (Entries with dates marked thus* are not presently on record at Library and Archives Canada and were inferred from the following week's listing.