1982 Number One Singles U.S. Pop

Title / Artist / Weeks at #1​:​​ 

• Physical - Olivia Newton-John (4 weeks)
• I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) - Daryll Hall & John Oates (1 wk)
• Centerfold - J. Geils Band (6 weeks)
• I Love Rock "n" Roll - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts (7 weeks)
• Chariots of Fire - Vangelis (1 week)
• Ebony and Ivory - Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder (7 weeks)
• Don't You Want Me - The Human League (3 weeks)
• Eye Of The Tiger - Survivor (6 weeks)
• Abracadabra - Steve Miller Band (2 weeks)
• Hard To Say I'm Sorry - Chicago (2 weeks)
• Jack and Diane - John Cougar (4 weeks)
• Who Can It Be Now? - Men At Work (1 week)
• Up Where We Belong - Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes (3 wks) 
• Truly - Lionel Richie (2 weeks)
• Mickey - Toni Basil (1 week)
• Maneater - Darryl Hall & John Oates (2 weeks)

1982 Number One Singles U.K.

Title / Artist / Weeks at #1​​: 

• The Land Of Make Believe - Bucks Fizz (2 weeks)
• Oh Julie - Shakin' Stevens (1 week)
• Computer Love/The Model - Kraftwerk (1 week)
• Town Called Malice - The Jams (3 weeks)
• The Lion Sleeps Tonight - Tight Fit (3 weeks)
• Seven Tears - Goombay Dance Band (3 weeks)
• My Camera Never Lies - Bucks Fizz (1 week)
• Ebony and Ivory - Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder (3 weeks)
• A Little Peace - Nicole (2 weeks)
• House Of Fun - Madness (2 weeks)
• Goody Two Shoes - Adam Ant (2 weeks)
• I've Never Been To Me - Charlene (1 week)
• Happy Talk - Captain Sensible (2 weeks)
• Fame - Irene Cara (3 weeks)
• Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners (4 weeks)
• Eye Of The Tiger - Survivor (4 weeks)
• Pass The Dutchie - Musical Youth (3 weeks)
• ​Do You Really Want To Hurt Me - Culture Club (3 weeks)
• I Don't Wanna Dance - Eddy Grant (3 weeks)
• Beat Surrender - The Jam (2 weeks)
• ​Save Your Love - Renee and Renato (4 weeks)

1982 Best Selling Singles

Based on Worldwide Sales

  1 Survivor / Eye of the Tiger

  2 Joan Jett & The Blackhearts / I Love Rock 'n' Roll

  3 Culture Club / Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?

  4 Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder / Ebony & Ivory

  5 The Human League / Don't You Want Me

  6 Steve Miller Band / Abracadabra

  7 J Geils Band / Centrefold

  8 Men At Work / Down Under

  9 Dexys Midnight Runners / Come On Eileen

10 F R David / Words

11 Chicago / Hard to Say I'm Sorry

12 Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes / Up Where We Belong

13 Musical Youth / Pass the Dutchie

14 Hall & Oates / Maneater

15 Hall & Oates / I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)

16 Trio / Da Da Da ich lieb dich nicht du liebst mich nicht aha 

17 John Cougar Mellencamp / Jack & Diane

18 Toni Basil / Mickey

19 Toto / Rosanna

20 Supertramp / It's Raining Again

21 Charlene / I've Never Been to Me

22 Falco / Der Kommissar

23 Quarterflash / Harden My Heart

24 Dionne Warwick / Heartbreaker

25 Kim Wilde / Cambodia

26 Laura Branigan / Gloria

27 Duran Duran / Hungry Like the Wolf

28 ABC / The Look of Love

29 Frida / I Know There's Something Going On

30 Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson / The Girl is Mine

31 Vangelis / Chariots of Fire

32 Shakin' Stevens / Oh Julie

33 Imagination / Just an Illusion

34 Kool & The Gang / Get Down On It

35 Yazoo / Don't Go

36 Lindsey Buckingham / TROUBLE

37 The Clash / Rock the Casbah

38 The Alan Parsons Project / Eye in the Sky

39 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark / Maid of Orleans 

40 Adam Ant / Goody Two Shoes

41 John Cougar Mellencamp / Hurt So Good

42 Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five / The Message

43 Richard Sanderson / Reality

44 Willie Nelson / Always On My Mind

45 Asia / Heat of the Moment

46 J Geils Band / Freeze-Frame

47 Men At Work / Who Can it Be Now?

48 Don Henley / Dirty Laundry

49 The Go Gos / We Got The Beat

50 The Human League / Mirror Man

51 David Bowie / Cat People (Putting Out Fire)

52 A Flock of Seagulls / I Ran (So Far Away)

53 Lionel Richie / Truly

54 Imagination / Music & Lights

55 The Stray Cats / Stray Cat Strut

56 The Stray Cats / Rock This Town

57 Ray Parker Jr / The Other Woman

58 Journey / Open Arms

59 Elton John / Blue Eyes

60 Tight Fit / The Lion Sleeps Tonight

61 Donna Summer / Love is in Control (Finger On the Trigger)

62 Joe Jackson / Steppin' Out

63 The Pretenders / Back On the Chain Gang

64 Olivia Newton-John / Heart Attack

65 Dire Straits / Private Investigations

66 Queen / Body Language

67 Stevie Wonder / That Girl

68 The Jam / A Town Called Malice

69 Jon & Vangelis / I'll Find My Way Home

70 Dolly Parton / I Will Always Love You

71 The Cars / Shake it Up

72 George Benson / Turn Your Love Around

73 Fleetwood Mac / Hold Me

74 The Police / Spirits in the Material World

75 Buckner & Garcia / Pac-man Fever

76 The Rolling Stones / Going to a Go-Go

77 Boystown Gang / Can't Take My Eyes Off You

78 Duran Duran / Rio

79 Elton John / Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)

80 Abba / The Day Before You Came

81 Joan Jett & The Blackhearts / Crimson & Clover

82 Bucks Fizz / The Land of Make Believe

83 Kim Wilde / View From a Bridge

84 Tommy Tutone / 867-5309 (Jenny Jenny)

85 Rick Springfield / Don't Talk To Strangers

86 Roxy Music / More Than This

87 PhD / I Won't Let You Down

88 Spider Murphy Gang / Skandal im Sperrbezirk

89 The Stranglers / Golden Brown

90 Captain Sensible / Wot

91 Andy Borg / Adios Amor

92 Golden Earring / Twilight Zone

93 Hot Chocolate / It Started With a Kiss

94 Afrika Bambaataa / Planet Rock

95 Al Bano & Romina Power / Felicita

96 Haircut 100 / Love Plus One

97 Bananarama / Shy Boy (Don't It Make You Feel Good)

98 Billy Idol / Hot in the City

99 Peter Gabriel / Shock the Monkey

100 Bertie Higgins / Key Largo

1982 Best Selling Albums

Based on Worldwide Sales

​  1 Michael Jackson / Thriller

  2 Paul McCartney / Tug Of War

  3 Men At Work / Business As Usual

  4 Asia / Asia

  5 Roxy Music / Avalon

  6 Toto / Toto IV

  7 Dire Straits / Love Over Gold

  8 Simon & Garfunkel / The Concert In Central Park

  9 Prince / 1999

10 John Cougar Mellencamp / American Fool

11 Duran Duran / Rio

12 Phil Collins / Hello, I Must Be Going!

13 The Alan Parsons Project / Eye In The Sky

14 Supertramp / Famous Last Words

15 Bruce Springsteen / Nebraska

16 Fleetwood Mac / Mirage

17 Steve Miller Band / Abracadabra

18 J Geils Band / Freeze-Frame

19 Iron Maiden / The Number Of The Beast

20 Donald Fagen / The Nightfly

21 Joan Jett & The Blackhearts / I Love Rock 'N' Roll

22 The Rolling Stones / Still Life (American Concerts 1981)

23 Barbra Streisand / Memories

24 The Go Gos / Beauty & The Beat

25 Culture Club / Kissing To Be Clever

26 ABC / The Lexicon Of Love

27 Joe Jackson / Night & Day

28 The Clash / Combat Rock

29 Queen / Hot Space

30 Hall & Oates / H2O

31 Robert Plant / Pictures At Eleven

32 Survivor / Eye Of The Tiger

33 Simple Minds / New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84)

34 Marvin Gaye / Midnight Love

35 Rush / Signals

36 Billy Joel / The Nylon Curtain

37 Dexys Midnight Runners / Too-Rye-Ay

38 Yazoo / Upstairs At Eric's

39 Van Halen / Diver Down

40 Elton John / Jump Up

41 Chris de Burgh / The Getaway

42 Elvis Costello / Imperial Bedroom

43 Genesis / Three Sides Live

44 Hall & Oates / Private Eyes

45 Peter Gabriel / Peter Gabriel (Security)

46 Stevie Wonder / Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium I

47 Chicago / Chicago 16

48 Foreigner / Records

49 Dionne Warwick / Heartbreaker

50 The Scorpions / Blackout

51 Lionel Richie / Lionel Richie

52 Santana / Shango

53 Donna Summer / Donna Summer

54 Abba / The Singles, The First Ten Years

55 REO Speedwagon / Good Trouble

56 Barclay James Harvest / Berlin - A Concert For The People

57 Led Zeppelin / Coda

58 Kate Bush / The Dreaming

59 Peter Hofmann / Rock Classics

60 Mike Oldfield / Five Miles Out

61 A Flock of Seagulls / A Flock Of Seagulls

62 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark / Architecture & Morality

63 Loverboy / Get Lucky

64 Kids From Fame / The Kids From Fame

65 Frida / Something's Going On

66 The Jam / The Gift

67 Adam Ant / Friend Or Foe

68 Judas Priest / Screaming For Vengeance

69 The Cure / Pornography

70 Pat Benatar / Get Nervous

71 Eric Clapton / Time Pieces, The Best Of Eric Clapton

72 Elton John / Your Songs

73 XTC / English Settlement

74 Bill Conti / Rocky III

75 Split Enz / Time & Tide

76 Imagination / In The Heat Of The Night

77 Kim Wilde / Select

78 The Who / It's Hard

79 Crosby, Stills & Nash / Daylight Again

80 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers / Long After Dark

81 Neil Diamond / Heartlight

82 Madness / The Rise & Fall

83 Violent Femmes / Violent Femmes

84 Quarterflash / Quarterflash

85 Ultravox / Quartet

86 Nicole / Ein biosschen Frieden

87 Saga / Worlds Apart

88 Spliff / 85555

89 The Go Gos / Vacation

90 Diana Ross / Silk Electric

91 The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Classic Disco

92 Kiss / Creatures Of The Night

93 John Williams / ET The Extra-Terrestrial

94 Jon & Vangelis / The Friends Of Mr Cairo

95 BoB & Doug McKenzie / Great White North

96 Ozzy Osbourne / Speak Of The Devil

97 Aldo Nova / Aldo Nova

98 Kid Creole & the Coconuts / Tropical Gangsters

99 Rod Stewart / Absolutely Live

100 Wolfgang Niedecken's BAP / Fur Usszeschnigge