I wanted to check out the best-selling albums released in 1983 that charted on Billboard's Jazz Album Chart. Unfortunately, the magazine's year-end charts were no help as the 1983 year-end chart contained many albums from 1982. So since I had time to burn and I'm more than a little compulsive about such things (I created this jazz chart book, for example), I decided to create my own list of jazz albums that were actually released in 1983. I crunched some numbers and used a formula that took into account both chart peak positions as well as length on the chart. According to Billboard's Jazz Album Chart, here are the top 25 best-selling jazz albums released in the calendar year 1983:
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Bob James
On the Line
Lee Ritenour
Passion, Grace & Fire
John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola & Paco De Lucía
Mirage À Trois
Yellowjackets
Scenario
Al Di Meola
Procession
Weather Report
Third Generation
Hiroshima
Bodies and Souls
The Manhattan Transfer
Star People
Miles Davis
Foxie
Bob James
The Hunter
Joe Sample
Friends
Larry Carlton
Imagine This
Pieces of a Dream
Shadowdance
Shadowfax
City Kids
Spyro Gyra
Individual Choice
Jean-Luc Ponty
Passionfruit
Michael Franks
What's New
Linda Ronstadt
Travels
Pat Metheny
In Your Eyes
George Benson
Low Ride
Earl Klugh
Future Shock
Herbie Hancock
Jarreau
Al Jarreau
Backstreet
David Sanborn
Think of One
Wynton Marsalis
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