#1 Album on January 8, 1966

Rubber Soul
Beatles

The Beatles sixth album is seen by many as the beginning of the band's musical transformation from boy-girl love songs to sophisticated pop and rock. George Harrison's sitar on "Norwegian Wood" was a first for a pop song. Producer George Martin described Rubber Soul as "the first album to present a new, growing Beatles to the world."
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#1 Album on January 7, 1968

Magical Mystery Tour
Beatles

The one-hour television film was originally aired in England in 1967 but was not shown widely in the United States until 1974. The story depicts a bus load of eccentric characters on a magic journey through the countryside. Songs introduced in the film include "The Fool on the Hill," "I Am the Walrus" and "Magical Mystery Tour."
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#1 Album on January 6, 1979

Barbra Streisand's Greatest Hits, Vol 2
Barbra Streisand

The second greatest hits compilation for Streisand features ten songs including "You Don't Bring Me Flowers", a duet with Neil Diamond that hit the top of the Billboard charts in 1978. The two had met almost twenty years earlier in the school choir at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, New York.
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#1 Album on January 5, 2005

Loyal to the Game
2Pac

Tupac Shakur's album "Loyal to the Game" was released posthumously nearly ten years after his death in 1996. The album is a compilation of previously unreleased music produced and remixed by Eminem. The record debuted at #1 and features two singles: "Thugs Get Lonely Too" and "Ghetto Gospel".
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#1 Album on January 4, 1961

G.I. Blues
Elvis Presley

The movie G.I. Blues is based roughly on Elvis' army tour of duty in Germany. The soundtrack was #1 for five weeks and stayed on the charts for 111 weeks, making it Elvis' longest charted record. The song "Blue Suede Shoes" was re-recorded for the film and plays on a juke box during a night club fight scene.
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#1 Album on January 3, 1971

All Things Must Pass
George Harrison

All Things Must Pass includes songs composed by former Beatle George Harrison from as early as 1966. The album features Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Eric Clapton and Billy Preston. The single "My Sweet Lord", which topped music charts in seven countries, was the subject of a 1976 lawsuit that found Harrison had plagiarized The Chiffons' song "He So Fine".
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#1 Album on January 2, 1989

...But Seriously
Phil Collins

The album's first of four singles "Another Day in Paradise" brought attention to the issue of poverty and homelessness in cities and became a huge video and radio hit. According to several interviews, Collins said he was inspired to write the song after he visited the streets of Washington D.C.
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