France best selling albums ever:
Summary 1970-1979

Foreign Albums

01 Soundtrack – Grease (1978) : 2 040 000
02 Pink Floyd – Dark Side Of The Moon (1973) : 1 715 000
03 Neil Young – Harvest (1972) : 1 570 000
04 Soundtrack / Bee Gees – Saturday Night Fever (1977) : 1 530 000
05 Pink Floyd – The Wall (1979) : 1 525 000
06 The Beatles – 1967-1970 (1973) : 1 490 000
07 Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here (1975) : 1 430 000
08 The Beatles – 1962-1966 (1973) : 1 360 000
09 Eagles – Hotel California (1976) : 1 355 000
10 Simon & Garfunkel – Greatest Hits (1972) : 1 325 000

Not much to be said as this is pretty much a mixture of bands and soundtracks lists. Albums from this latter list still have a big advantage towards bands albums as they were released in more favorable years, latter in the decade, and also had the aforementioned huge advantage of being promoted threw successful movies. As he sold over a million with a French language album, I’m excluding Julio Iglesias of this listing, letting Neil Young as the only artist disturbing bands hegemony.