Billboard's own description of its Album Reviews page:
SPOTLIGHT - Predicted to hit top ten on Billboard's Top LPs & Tape chart or to earn platinum certification.Could cash and/or cocaine incentives have also influenced which albums were featured? Probably, but let's not nitpick. Instead, let's see how the prognosticators fared during the month of December 1983:
POP - Picks in [this category] predicted to hit the top half of the chart...
RECOMMENDED - Other releases predicted to chart in the respective format; also, other albums of superior quality.
| Title | Artist | Peak | RIAA | |
| Seven and the Ragged Tiger | Duran Duran | 8 | Platinum | ✓ |
POP category (Top 100 prediction) with eventual chart peak
| Title | Artist | Peak | |
| What a Feelin' | Irene Cara | 77 | ✓ |
| Strip | Adam Ant | 65 | ✓ |
| Play Dirty | Girlschool | 207 | ☓ |
| Beauty Stab | ABC | 69 | ✓ |
| Speeding Time | Carole King | - | ☓ |
| Cold Spring Harbor (reissue) | Billy Joel | 158 | ☓ |
| Track Record | Joan Armatrading | 113 | ☓ |
| Break Out | Pointer Sisters | 8 | ✓ |
| Christine | Soundtrack | 177 | ☓ |
| Different Style! | Musical Youth | 144 | ☓ |
RECOMMENDED category (Top 200 prediction) with eventual chart peak.
| Title | Artist | Peak | |
| Kissing the Pink (EP) | Kissing the Pink | - | ☓ |
| Where Angels Fear to Tread | Mink DeVille | 208 | ☓ |
| Call of the Wild | Ellen Shipley | - | ☓ |
| Digney Fignus (EP) | Digney Fignus | - | ☓ |
| It's Only a Movie! | The Raybeats | - | ☓ |
| Dialogue | Rocket Kirchner | - | ☓ |
| Live Trax | James Montgomery | - | ☓ |
| Best of | Tim Buckley | - | ☓ |
| Solid Gold | Marilyn McCoo | - | ☓ |
| Give a Little Bit More | Cliff Richard | - | ☓ |
| The Dorsey/Sinatra Radio Years 1940-42 and The Historic Stordahl Session | Tommy Dorsey/Frank Sinatra | - | ☓ |
| The New Acoustic Music Sampler | Various Artists | - | ☓ |
| This Are Two Tone | Various Artists | - | ☓ |
| Attitudes | Stevie Woods | - | ☓ |
| Lifetime Guarantee | Michael Johnson | - | ☓ |
| Yello (EP) | Yello | - | ☓ |
| The Rhino Brothers Present the World's Worst Records | Various Artists | - | ☓ |
| Revenge of the Budgie | Nick Reynolds/John Stewart | - | ☓ |
| By the Hush | Andy M. Stewart | - | ☓ |
| Popular Songs Of Christmas & New Year's | John Fahey | - | ☓ |
| The Line | Alethia | - | ☓ |
| Rhino Teen Magazine, Vol. I | Various Artists | - | ☓ |
| Rhino Teen Magazine, Vol. II | Various Artists | - | ☓ |
| The Unclaimed (EP) | The Unclaimed | - | ☓ |
| No Parole From Rock'N'Roll | Alcatrazz | 128 | ✓ |
| Mirror of the World | Firefall | - | ☓ |
| Journeys | Holly Near | - | ☓ |
| The Neats | The Neats | - | ☓ |
| Tsunami | Tsunami | - | ☓ |
| Arrival | Rail | - | ☓ |
| Greatest Science Fiction Hits Vol 3 | Neil Norman | - | ☓ |
| Over the Edge | Wipers | - | ☓ |
| Olas De Sexo | Vinny | - | ☓ |
| Computer Music for the Microchip Mind | Flagyll | - | ☓ |
| Balance (EP) | Chameleon | - | ☓ |
| Extended Play (EP) | Krank | - | ☓ |
| Critical Seconds | Norman Allan | - | ☓ |
| Butthole Surfers (EP) | Butthole Surfers | - | ☓ |
| Heading for a Storm | Vandenberg | 169 | ✓ |
| 10-5-60 (EP) | The Long Ryders | - | ☓ |
| Fearless | Nina Hagen | 151 | ✓ |
| Leave My Heart | The Accelerators | - | ☓ |
Final tally for December, 1983: 8 of 53 for a .151 batting average.
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