Top Singles of December 17, 1983

Let's take a look at what was topping the various single charts on December 17, 1983.

	Billboard	CashBox	Radio & Records
1	"Say Say Say" Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson	"Say Say Say" Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson	"Say Say Say" Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson
2	"Say It Isn't So" Daryl Hall & John Oates	"All Night Long (All Night)" Lionel Richie	"Say It Isn't So" Daryl Hall & John Oates
3	"All Night Long (All Night)" Lionel Richie	"Union of the Snake" Duran Duran	"Union of the Snake" Duran Duran
4	"Uptown Girl" Billy Joel	"Love is a Battlefield" Pat Benatar	"Owner of a Lonely Heart" Yes
5	"Union of the Snake" Duran Duran	"Say It Isn't So" Daryl Hall & John Oates	"Twist of Fate" Olivia Newton-John
6	"Love is a Battlefield" Pat Benatar	"Uptown Girl" Billy Joel	"Undercover of the Night" The Rolling Stones
7	"Owner of a Lonely Heart" Yes	"Cum On Feel the Noize" Quiet Riot	"I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues" Elton John
8	"Islands in the Stream" Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton	"Crumblin' Down" John Cougar Mellencamp	"Talking in Your Sleep" The Romantics
9	"Twist of Fate" Olivia Newton-John	"Owner of a Lonely Heart" Yes	"Synchronicity II" The Police
10	"Church of the Poison Mind" Culture Club	"Church of the Poison Mind" Culture Club	"Major Tom (Coming Home)" Peter Schilling

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Exclusive MFD meta-analysis of the above charts:

1. "Say Say Say" (30 points)
2. "Say It Isn't So" (24 pts)
3. "Union of the Snake" (22 pts)
4. "All Night Long (All Night)" (17 pts)
5. "Owner of a Lonely Heart" (13 pts)
6. (tie) "Uptown Girl" and "Love is a Battlefield" (12 pts)
8. "Twist of Fate" (8 pts)
9. "Undercover of the Night" (5 pts)
10. (tie) "Cum On Feel the Noize" and "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues" (4 pts)
12. (tie) "Islands in the Stream," "Crumblin' Down," and "Talking in Your Sleep" (3 pts)
15. (tie) "Church of the Poison Mind" and "Synchronicity II" (2 pts)
17. Major Tom (Coming Home) (1 pt)

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Here's what MTV was playing around that time:

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Taken from "The Back Page" - Radio & Records #1's of 1984

Week	Contemporary Hit Radio	Adult/Contemporary	AOR/Hot Tracks	Black/Urban
Jan 6	"Owner of a Lonely Heart" Yes	"I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues" Elton John	"That's All" Genesis	"If Only You Knew" Patti LaBelle
Jan 13			"Jump" Van Halen
Jan 20	"Karma Chameleon" Culture Club	"Joanna" Kool & The Gang
Jan 27
Feb 3		"An Innocent Man" Billy Joel		"Yah Mo Be There" James Ingram with Michael McDonald
Feb 10	"Thriller" Michael Jackson			"Encore" Cheryl Lynn
Feb 17	"Jump" Van Halen	"This Woman" Kenny Rogers		"Somebody's Watching Me" Rockwell
Feb 24
Mar 2		"Got a Hold on Me" Christine McVie	"Footloose" Kenny Loggins
Mar 9			"Runner" Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Mar 16			"You Might Think" The Cars
Mar 23	"Footloose" Kenny Loggins	"Hello" Lionel Richie		"She's Strange" Cameo
Mar 30
Apr 6
Apr 13	"Against All Odds" Phil Collins
Apr 20				"Hello" Lionel Richie
Apr 27			"Oh Sherrie" Steve Perry
May 4		"The Longest Time" Billy Joel
May 11	"Let's Hear it for the Boy" Deniece Williams		"Magic" The Cars	"Let's Hear it for the Boy" Deniece Williams
May 18		"Time After Time" Cyndi Lauper
May 25			"Dancing in the Dark" Bruce Springsteen
June 1	"Time After Time" Cyndi Lauper
June 8				"Tell Me I'm Not Dreaming" Jermaine Jackson
June 15
June 22	"The Reflex" Duran Duran	"Almost Paradise" Mike Reno & Ann Wilson		"When Doves Cry" Prince
June 29	"Dancing in the Dark" Bruce Springsteen
July 6	"When Doves Cry" Prince	"If Ever You're in My Arms Again" Peabo Bryson
July 13			"Rock Me Tonite" Billy Squier
July 20		"Stuck on You" Lionel Richie	"Missing You" John Waite
July 27
Aug 3	"Ghostbusters" Ray Parker, Jr.
Aug 10				"Ghostbusters" Ray Parker, Jr.
Aug 17				"You Me and He" Mtume
Aug 24	"Stuck on You" Lionel Richie	"Leave a Tender Moment Alone" Billy Joel
Aug 31	"Missing You" John Waite		"Cover Me" Bruce Springsteen	"Just the Way You Like It" S.O.S. Band
Sept 7		"Drive" The Cars
Sept 14	"Let's Go Crazy" Prince			"Let's Go Crazy" Prince
Sept 23			"Are We Ourselves?" The Fixx
Sept 28		"I Just Called to Say I Love You" Stevie Wonder	"Blue Jean" David Bowie	"I Feel for You" Chaka Khan
Oct 5
Oct 12	"Hard Habit to Break" Chicago
Oct 19	"I Just Called to Say I Love You" Stevie Wonder
Oct 26		"What About Me?" Kenny Rogers with Kim Carnes & James Ingram	"Pride (In the Name of Love)" U2
Nov 2	"Purple Rain" Prince	"Penny Lover" Lionel Richie
Nov 9			"Run to You" Bryan Adams	"Cool It Now" New Edition
Nov 16	"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" Wham!			"Solid" Ashford & Simpson
Nov 23
Nov 30	"Out of Touch" Daryl Hall & John Oates	"No More Lonely Nights" Paul McCartney		"Operator" Midnight Star
Dec 7	"The Wild Boys" Duran Duran		"The Boys of Summer" Don Henley
Dec 14	"Like a Virgin" Madonna	"All I Need" Jack Wagner
Dec 21
Week	Contemporary Hit Radio	Adult/Contemporary	AOR/Hot Tracks	Black/Urban

Painstakingly compiled from primary sources and presented here for purposes of comparison (and because I was curious and am mildly addicted to chart data).

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Top Jazz Albums of July 9, 1983

Let's take a look at what was topping the various jazz album charts on July 9, 1983.

	Billboard	Cash Box	Radio & Records
1	Jarreau Al Jarreau	In Your Eyes George Benson	Low Ride Earl Klugh
2	Low Ride Earl Klugh	Travels Pat Metheny Group	In Your Eyes George Benson
3	The Hunter Joe Sample	Jarreau Al Jarreau	Jarreau Al Jarreau
4	Star People Miles Davis	The Genie Bob James	Journey to a Rainbow Chuck Mangione
5	The Genie Bob James	Low Ride Earl Klugh	The Genie Bob James
6	Friends Larry Carlton	Star People Miles Davis	Les Fleurs Ramsey Lewis
7	Autumn George Winston	Friends Larry Carlton	Friends Larry Carlton
8	Mirage a Trois Yellowjackets	The Hunter Joe Sample	Mirage a Trois Yellowjackets
9	Dave Grusin and the New York/L.A. Dream Band	Mirage a Trois Yellowjackets	Travels Pat Metheny Group
10	In Your Eyes George Benson	Journey to a Rainbow Chuck Mangione	The Hunter Joe Sample

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Exclusive MFD meta-analysis of the above charts:

1. Jarreau (26 points)
2. Low Ride (25 pts)
3. In Your Eyes (20 pts)
4. The Genie (19 pts)
5. Friends (14 pts)
6. (tie) The Hunter and Star People (12 pts)
8. Travels (11 pts)
9. (tie) Mirage a Trois and Journey to a Rainbow (8 pts)
11. Les Fleurs (5 pts)
12. Autumn (4 pts)
13. Dave Grusin and the New York/L.A. Dream Band (2 pts)

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Listen to selected tracks from the above albums and other 1983 releases, courtesy of Dr. Smooth:

Taken from "The Back Page" - Radio & Records #1's of 1983

Week	Contemporary Hit Radio	Adult/Contemporary	AOR/Hot Tracks	AOR/Albums
Jan 7	"Down Under" Men at Work	"Baby, Come to Me Patti Austin with James Ingram	"Your Love is Driving Me Crazy" Sammy Hagar	Long After Dark Tom Petty
Jan 14				The Distance Bob Seger
Jan 21		"Heart to Heart" Kenny Loggins	"Hungry Like the Wolf" Duran Duran
Jan 28
Feb 4		"You Are" Lionel Richie
Feb 11	"Shame on the Moon" Bob Seger		"Separate Ways" Journey
Feb 18	"Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?" Culture Club			Frontiers Journey
Feb 25
Mar 4	"You Are" Lionel Richie
Mar 11	"Billie Jean" Michael Jackson
Mar 18			"Photograph" Def Leppard
Mar 25	"Separate Ways" Journey	"Make Love Stay" Dan Fogelberg
Apr 1				Pyromania Def Leppard
Apr 8	"Jeopardy" Greg Kihn Band	"It Might Be You" Stephen Bishop
Apr 15		"I Won't Hold You Back" Toto	"Overkill" Men at Work
Apr 22
Apr 29	"Beat It" Michael Jackson			Cargo Men at Work
May 6	"Overkill" Men at Work	"My Love" Lionel Richie	"She's a Beauty" The Tubes
May 13
May 20				Outside/Inside The Tubes
May 25	"Flashdance (What a Feeling)" Irene Cara			Cargo Men at Work
June 3		"Never Gonna Let You Go" Sergio Mendes	"Every Breath You Take" The Police	Pyromania Def Leppard
June 10
June 17				Synchronicity The Police
June 24
Jul 1	"Every Breath You Take" The Police	"All This Love" DeBarge
July 8
July 15		"Every Breath You Take" The Police
July 22
July 29			"Don't Cry" Asia
Aug 5		"All Time High" Rita Coolidge
Aug 12			"King of Pain" The Police
Aug 19		"Human Nature" Michael Jackson
Aug 26	"Maniac" Michael Sembello
Sept 2	"Tell Her About It" Billy Joel	"How Am I Supposed to Live Without You" Laura Branigan
Sept 9		"Tell Her About It" Billy Joel
Sept 16			"How Can I Refuse" Heart
Sept 23	"Total Eclipse of the Heart" Bonnie Tyler	"True" Spandau Ballet
Sept 30
Oct 7			"Love is a Battlefield" Pat Benatar
Oct 14	"King of Pain" Police	"All Night Long (All Night)" Lionel Richie		Live from Earth Pat Benatar
Oct 21
Oct 28	"All Night Long (All Night)" Lionel Richie		"Crumblin' Down" John Cougar Mellencamp	Uh-Huh John Cougar Mellencamp
Nov 4
Nov 11			"Undercover of the Night" The Rolling Stones
Nov 18	"Say Say Say" Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson	"Uptown Girl" Billy Joel	"Owner of a Lonely Heart" Yes	Undercover The Rolling Stones
Nov 25
Dec 2		"Say Say Say" Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson		90125 Yes
Dec 9		"Read 'Em and Weep" Barry Manilow
Dec 16
Week	Contemporary Hit Radio	Adult/Contemporary	AOR/Hot Tracks	AOR/Albums

Painstakingly compiled from primary sources and presented here for purposes of comparison (and because I was curious and am mildly addicted to chart data).

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Top Singles of January 29, 1983

Let's take a look at what was topping the various single charts on January 29, 1983.

	Billboard	CashBox	Radio & Records
1	"Down Under" Men at Work	"Down Under" Men at Work	"Down Under" Men at Work
2	"Africa" Toto	"Maneater" Daryl Hall & John Oates	"Shame on the Moon" Bob Seger
3	"Sexual Healing" Marvin Gaye	"Baby, Come to Me" Patti Austin & James Ingram	"Heart to Heart" Kenny Loggins
4	"Dirty Laundry" Don Henley	"Africa" Toto	"Allentown" Billy Joel
5	"The Girl is Mine" Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney	"Sexual Healing" Marvin Gaye	"Baby, Come to Me" Patti Austin & James Ingram
6	"Maneater" Daryl Hall & John Oates	"Mickey" Toni Basil	"Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" Culture Club
7	"Baby, Come to Me" Patti Austin & James Ingram	"Dirty Laundry" Don Henley	"Africa" Toto
8	"Rock the Casbah" The Clash	"The Girl is Mine" Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney	"The Other Guy" Little River Band
9	"Shame on the Moon" Bob Seger	"The Other Guy" Little River Band	"You Can't Hurry Love" Phil Collins
10	"You and I" Eddie Rabbitt & Crystal Gayle	"You Can't Hurry Love" Phil Collins	"Stray Cat Strut" Stray Cats

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Exclusive MFD meta-analysis of the above charts:

1. "Down Under" (30 points)
2. "Africa" (20 pts)
3. "Baby, Come to Me" (18 pts)
4. (tie) "Sexual Healing" and "Maneater" (14 pts)
6. (tie) "Dirty Laundry" and "Shame on the Moon" (11 pts)
8. "The Girl is Mine" (9 pts)
9. "Heart to Heart" (8 pts)
10. "Allentown" (7 pts)
11. (tie) "Mickey," "The Other Guy," and "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" (5 pts)
14. (tie) "Rock the Casbah" and "You Can't Hurry Love" (3 pts)
16. "You and I" and "Stray Cat Strut" (1 pt)

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Here's what MTV was playing around that time:

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Radio & Records Jazz Radio National Airplay Chart: May 1982

On May 21, 1982, Radio & Records magazine introduced their "Jazz Radio National Airplay Chart," a weekly 30 position chart of jazz albums:

• WYRS (now WARW) - jazz format 1980-90
• KSAX (now KHVN) - jazz format 1979-85
• WDBS (now WFXC) - free-form format 1971-84
• KTWN (now KQQL) - jazz format 1978-83
• WXFM (now WCFS) - jazz format early '80s
• KJAZ (now KREV) - jazz format 1959-94
• KJZZ (now KXPA) - jazz format 1981-84

Radio & Records had previously been publishing a 10 position "Jazz on AOR" chart and continued to do so. That first Radio National Airplay chart:

Because the chart was based solely on airplay instead of sales, it varied greatly from the jazz albums charts appearing that week in issues of Billboard and CashBox:

Album	R&R	BB	CB
It's a Fact	1	5	6
Old Songs For The New Depression	2	-	-
Live at The Savoy	3	18	20
Straight from the Heart	4	-	-
Fathers and Sons	5	21	21
Mystical Adventures	6	1	4
Dan Siegel	7	30	29
Brotherly Love	8	35	-
Hollywood	9	15	10
Come Morning	10	3	7
Ride Like the Wind	11	46	19
Rio	12	11	12
Dream On	13	9	13
Objects of Desire	14	7	14
Silk	15	34	22
Chariots of Fire	16	1	4
Dan Siegel	17	19	27
Weather Report	18	17	18
Earland's Jam	19	32	24
No Problem	20	27	-
We Want Miles	21	10	2
Nights in Brazil	22	42	-
Taurus	23	-	-
Telecommunication	24	12	8
Breakin' Away	25	2	1
Crazy for You	26	16	16
George Benson Collection	27	6	5
Offramp	28	-	11
Griffith Park Collection	29	41	-
Free & Easy	30	-	-

The chart lasted through the end of 1987. In January 1988, the magazine expanded its jazz charts offerings: 

Complete chart information from May 1982 - December 1987 is freely available to peruse and download over at one of our sister websites: albumcharts.wordpress.com/

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Top Jazz Albums on January 8, 1983

Let's take a look at what was topping the various jazz album charts for the week of January 8, 1983.

	Billboard	CashBox	Radio & Records
1	Two of a Kind Earl Klugh & Bob James	Two of a Kind Earl Klugh & Bob James	Two of a Kind Earl Klugh & Bob James
2	Incognito Spyro Gyra	Casino Lights Various Artists	The Best is Yet to Come Grover Washington, Jr.
3	Offramp Pat Metheny Group	The Best is Yet to Come Grover Washington, Jr.	Incognito Spyro Gyra
4	Casino Lights Various Artists	Rit/2 Lee Ritenour	Home Again Stanley Turrentine
5	As We Speak David Sanborn	Incognito Spyro Gyra	Casino Lights Various Artists
6	Rit/2 Lee Ritenour	Offramp Pat Metheny Group	Chance Encounter Ramsey Lewis
7	We are One Pieces of a Dream	Tour de Force - Live Al DiMeola	Touch the Feeling Stix Hooper
8	Tour de Force - Live Al DiMeola	As We Speak David Sanborn	Kenny G Kenny G
9	Touchstone Chick Corea	Learning to Love Rodney Franklin	Rit/2 Lee Ritenour
10	Kenny G Kenny G	Home Again Stanley Turrentine	Learning to Love Rodney Franklin

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Exclusive MFD meta-analysis of the above charts:

1. Two of a Kind (30 pts)
2. Incognito (23 pts)
3. Casino Lights (22 pts)
4. The Best is Yet to Come (17 pts)
5. Rit/2 (14 pts)
6. Offramp (13 pts)
7. As We Speak (9 pts)
8. Home Again (8 pts)
9. Tour de Force - Live (7 pts)
10. Chance Encounter (5 pts)
11. (tie) We are One, Kenny G, and Touch the Feeling (4 pts)
14. Learning to Love (3 pts)
15. Touchstone (2 pts)

Top Jazz Albums on May 26, 1984

Let's take a look at what was topping the various jazz album charts for the week of June 26, 1984.

	Billboard	CashBox	Radio & Records
1	Think of One Wynton Marsalis	Rejoicing Pat Metheny	Modern Times Steps Ahead
2	Wishful Thinking Earl Klugh	Wishful Thinking Earl Klugh	Rejoicing Pat Metheny
3	Backstreet David Sanborn	Think of One Wynton Marsalis	88 Basie Street Count Basie
4	Ghetto Blaster The Crusaders	Domino Theory Weather Report	Dimensions McCoy Tyner
5	Domino Theory Weather Report	Ghetto Blaster The Crusaders	In Performance at The Playboy Jazz Festival Various Artists
6	G Force Kenny G	Modern Times Steps Ahead	Heavy Heart Carla Bley
7	December George Winston	Time Exposure Stanley Clarke	Wishful Thinking Earl Klugh
8	In the Heat of the Night Jeff Lorber	Backstreet David Sanborn	Steppin' Out George Howard
9	Future Shock Herbie Hancock	G Force Kenny G	Love Explosion Tania Maria
10	Imagine This Pieces of a Dream	In the Heat of the Night Jeff Lorber	Scenes in the City Branford Marsalis

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Exclusive MFD meta-analysis of the above charts:

1. Wishful Thinking (22 pts)
2. Rejoicing (19 pts)
3. Think of One (18 pts)
4. Modern Times (15 pts)
5. (tie) Ghetto Blaster and Domino Theory (13 pts)
7. Backstreet (11 pts)
8. 88 Basie Street (8 pts)
9. (tie) G Force and Dimensions (7 pts)
11. In Performance at The Playboy Festival (6 pts)
12. Heavy Heart (5 pts)
13. (tie) In the Heat of the Night, Time Exposure, and December (4 pts)
16. Steppin' Out (3 pts)
17. (tie) Future Shock and Love Explosion (2 pts)
19. (tie) Scenes in the City and Imagine This (1 pt)

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Top Singles of December 5, 1981

Let's take a look at what was topping the various single charts on December 5, 1981.

	Billboard	CashBox	Radio & Records	Record World
1	"Physical" Olivia Newton-John	"Physical" Olivia Newton-John	"Waiting for a Girl Like You" Foreigner	"Physical" Olivia Newton-John
2	"Waiting for a Girl Like You" Foreigner	"Waiting for a Girl Like You" Foreigner	"Physical" Olivia Newton-John	"Waiting for a Girl Like You" Foreigner
3	"Every Little Thing She Does is Magic" The Police	"Private Eyes" Daryl Hall & John Oates	"Leather and Lace" Stevie Nicks & Don Henley	"Private Eyes" Daryl Hall & John Oates
4	"Oh No" Commodores	"Oh No" Commodores	"Young Turks" Rod Stewart	"Here I Am" Air Supply
5	"Here I Am" Air Supply	"Here I Am" Air Supply	"Trouble" Lindsay Buckingham	"Oh No" Commodores
6	"Private Eyes" Daryl Hall & John Oates	"Let's Groove" Earth, Wind & Fire	"Why Do Fools Fall in Love" Diana Ross	"Start Me Up" The Rolling Stones
7	"Let's Groove" Earth, Wind & Fire	"Every Little Thing She Does is Magic" The Police	"Oh No" Commodores	"Why Do Fools Fall in Love" Diana Ross
8	"Young Turks" Rod Stewart	"Young Turks" Rod Stewart	"Harden My Heart" Quarterflash	"Every Little Thing She Does is Magic" The Police
9	"Why Do Fools Fall in Love" Diana Ross	"Why Do Fools Fall in Love" Diana Ross	"I Can't Go for That" Daryl Hall & John Oates	"Young Turks" Rod Stewart
10	"Start Me Up" The Rolling Stones	"Start Me Up" The Rolling Stones	"Don't Stop Believin'" Journey	"Let's Groove" Earth, Wind & Fire

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Exclusive MFD meta-analysis of the above charts:

1. "Physical" (39 points)
2. "Waiting for a Girl Like You" (37 pts)
3. "Oh No" (24 pts)
4. "Private Eyes" (21 pts)
5. "Here I Am" (11 pts)
6. (tie) "Young Turks" and "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic" (15 pts)
8. "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" (13 pts)
9. "Let's Groove" (10 pts)
10. "Leather and Lace" (8 pts)
11. "Start Me Up" (7 pts)
12. "Trouble" (6 pts)
13. "Harden My Heart" (3 pts)
14. "I Can't Go for That" (2 pts)
15. "Don't Stop Believin'" (1 pt)