A breakdown of my top singles from 1983
Title
|
Artist
|
Pop
|
AC
|
Rock
|
R&B
|
Dance
|
|
83
|
"Electric Avenue"
| Eddy Grant
|
2
|
12
| 18
| 6
|
|
82
|
"Beat It"
|
Michael Jackson
|
1
|
14
|
1
|
1
|
|
81
|
"Say Say Say"
|
Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson
|
1
|
3
|
24
|
2
| 2
|
80
|
"Industrial Disease"
| Dire Straits
|
75
|
9
| |||
79
|
"Rock of Ages"
| Def Leppard
|
16
|
1
| |||
78
|
"Don't Tell Me You Love Me"
| Night Ranger
|
40
| 4
| |||
77
|
"All This Love"
| DeBarge
|
17
| 1
| 5
| ||
76
|
"Our House"
|
Madness
|
7
|
9
|
21
|
||
75
|
"I Won't Hold You Back"
|
Toto
|
10
|
1
| |||
74
|
"White Wedding"
| Billy Idol
|
36
| 4 |
10
|
||
73
|
"Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"
| Eurythmics
|
1
|
36
|
16
|
2
|
Title
|
Artist
|
Pop
|
AC
|
Rock
|
R&B
|
Dance
|
|
72
|
"Maniac"
| Michael Sembello
|
1
| 34
| 34
| 6
|
|
71
|
"Time (Clock of the Heart)"
|
Culture Club
|
2
| 6
|
34
|
46
|
|
70
|
"Dirty Laundry"
| Don Henley
|
3
| 1
| 47
|
||
69
|
"Lady Love Me (One More Time)"
| George Benson
|
30
| 4
|
21
| ||
68
|
"Hungry Like the Wolf"
| Duran Duran
|
3
| 1
|
36
|
||
67
|
"Hot Girls in Love"
| Loverboy
|
11
| 2
| |||
66
|
"Do You Really Want to Hurt Me"
| Culture Club
|
2
| 8
| 21
| 39
| 34
|
65
|
"Poison Arrow"
| ABC
|
25
|
39
|
|||
64
|
"Trouble in Paradise"
| Al Jarreau
|
63
|
10
| |||
63
|
"Sex (I'm A...)"
| Berlin
|
62
| 10
|
8
|
||
62
|
"Mexican Radio"
| Wall of Voodoo
|
58
| 41
|
Title
|
Artist
|
Pop
|
AC
|
Rock
|
R&B
|
Dance
|
|
61
|
"China"
| Red Rockers
|
53
| 19
| |||
60
|
"Cool Places"
| Sparks & Jane Wiedlin
|
49
|
13
|
|||
59
|
"The One Thing"
|
INXS
|
30
| 2
| |||
58
|
"Synchronicity II"
|
The Police
|
16
| 9
| |||
57
|
"This Time"
|
Bryan Adams
|
24
| 21
| |||
56
|
"Waiting for Your Love"
|
Toto
|
73
| 27
| |||
55
|
"I Do"
|
The J. Geils Band
|
24
| 5
| |||
54
|
"She's a Beauty"
| The Tubes
|
10
| 1
| |||
53
|
"P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)"
| Michael Jackson
|
10
|
37
|
1
|
||
52
|
"Tell Her About It"
| Billy Joel
|
1
|
1
| 17
|
38
|
|
51
|
"I Melt with You"
| Modern English
|
78
| 7
|
60
|
Title
|
Artist
|
Pop
|
AC
|
Rock
|
R&B
|
Dance
|
|
50
|
"Church of the Poison Mind"
| Culture Club
|
10
| 17
| |||
49
|
"Cuts Like a Knife"
| Bryan Adams
|
15
| 6
| |||
48
|
"Europa and the Pirate Twins"
|
Thomas Dolby
|
67
| 37
| |||
47
|
"Space Age Love Song"
| A Flock of Seagulls
|
30
| 59
| |||
46
|
"One Thing Leads to Another"
| The Fixx
|
4
| 2
|
14
|
||
45
|
"Change"
| Tears for Fears
|
73
| 22
| |||
44
|
"It Might Be You"
| Stephen Bishop
|
25
| 1
| |||
43
|
"Promises Promises"
|
Naked Eyes
|
11
| 19
|
32
|
||
42
|
"Whirly Girl"
|
OXO
|
28
| ||||
41
|
"Uptown Girl"
|
Billy Joel
|
3
| 2
| 22
|
All chart positions are peak positions from Billboard charts for 1983. These are my personal top 83 singles of those that peaked on the Billboard charts in 1983. The list is solely my opinion. Using Joel Whitburn's book, Pop Annual 1955-2005, I started with the 452 singles that peaked on Billboard Magazine's Hot 100 chart in 1983. An initial pass through that list narrowed it down to 120 tunes, then listening, ranking, and editing began. The top 83 are presented this week, in order.
Yay! Always a big fan of your personal countdowns. Eager to see how this one will play out.
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