This is what the list of Top 10 Albums in Finland looked like at the end of November 1970:
1. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Cosmo's Factory
2. Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin III
3. Simon & Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water
4. Jimi Hendrix: Band Of Gypsies
5. Tom Jones: I Who Have Nothing
6. Tapani Kansa: Tapani Kansa (Finnish)
7. Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin II
8. Black Sabbath: Paranoid
9. Deep Purple: In Rock
10. Tom Jones: Tom
Twenty years later, the list looked like this on December 3rd, 1990:
1. Ressu Redford: Ressu (Finnish)
2. Kirka: Ota lähellesi (Finnish)
3. Rainer Friman: Se on salaisuus (Finnish)
4. Madonna: The Immaculate Collection*
5. Various Artists: Suomalainen (Finnish)*
6. Trio Erektus: Kultalevy (Finnish)
7. Elton John: The Very Best Of *
8. Various Artists: Tenavatähdet ´90 (Finnish)*
9. ZZ Top: Recycler
10. Phil Collins: Serious Hits...Live!*
* Compilation. All the tracks on the Phil Collins live album were previously released in studio versions.
Helsingin Sanomat / First published in print in the Nyt weekly supplement of 11.11.2005