1983 Number One Singles U.S. Pop

Title / Artist / Weeks at #1​:​​ 

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• Maneater - Hall and Oates (2 weeks)
• Down Under - Men At Work (4 weeks)
• Africa - Toto (1 week)
• Baby, Come To Me - Patti Austin and James Ingram (2 weeks)
• Billie Jean - Michael Jackson (7 weeks)
• Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners (1 week)
• Beat It - Michael Jackson  (3 weeks)
• Let's Dance - David Bowie (1 week)
• Flashdance...What A Feeling - Irene Cara (6 weeks)
• Every Breath You Take - The Police (8 weeks)
• Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) - Eurythmics (1 week)
• Maniac - Michael Sembello (2 weeks)
• Tell Her About It - Billy Joel (1 week)
• Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonnie Tyler (4 weeks)
• Islands In The Stream - Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton (2 weeks)
• All Night Long (All Night) - Lionel Richie (4 weeks)
• Say Say Say - Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson (4 weeks)

1983 Number One Singles U.K.

Title / Artist / Weeks at #1​​: 

• You Can't Hurry Love - Phil Collins (2 weeks)
• Down Under - Men At Work  (3 weeks)
• Too Shy - Kajagoogoo  (2 weeks)
• Billie Jean - Michael Jackson (1 week)
• Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonnie Tyler (2 weeks)
• Is There Something I Should Know? - Duran Duran (2 weeks)
• Let's Dance - David Bowie (3 weeks)
• True - Spandau Ballet  (4 weeks)
• Candy Girl - New Edition (1 week)
• Every Breath You Take - The Police (4 weeks)
• Baby Jane - Rod Stewart (3 weeks)
• Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home) - Paul Young (3 weeks)
• Give It Up - KC and the Sunshine Band (3 weeks)
• Red Red Wine - UB40  (3 weeks)
• Karma Chameleon - Culture Club (6 weeks)
• Uptown Girl - Billy Joel  (5 weeks)
• Only You - The Flying Pickets (5 weeks)​

1983 Best Selling Singles

Based on Worldwide Sales

  1 Irene Cara / Flashdance... What a Feeling

  2 The Police / Every Breath You Take

  3 Michael Jackson / Billie Jean

  4 Culture Club / Karma Chameleon

  5 Michael Jackson / Beat It

  6 David Bowie / Let's Dance

  7 Bonnie Tyler / Total Eclipse of the Heart

  8 Lionel Richie / All Night Long (All Night)

  9 UB40 / Red Red Wine

10 Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson / Say Say Say

11 The Eurythmics / Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)

12 Rod Stewart / Baby Jane

13 Billy Joel / Uptown Girl

14 Marvin Gaye / (Sexual) Healing

15 Eddy Grant / Electric Avenue

16 Michael Sembello / Maniac

17 Spandau Ballet / TRUE

18 Kajagoogoo / Too Shy

19 Mike Oldfield / Moonlight Shadow

20 Men Without Hats / The Safety Dance

21 Phil Collins / You Can't Hurry Love

22 Toto / Africa

23 Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton / Islands in the Stream

24 Peter Schilling / Major Tom (Coming Home)

25 Eddy Grant / I Don't Wanna Dance

26 Taco / Puttin' on the Ritz

27 Madness / Our House

28 Paul Young / Come Back & Stay

29 Donna Summer / She Works Hard For the Money

30 Prince / 1999

31 David Bowie / China Girl

32 New Order / Blue Monday

33 Styx / Mr Roboto

34 Michael Jackson / Wanna Be Startin' Something

35 Duran Duran / Union of the Snake

36 Elton John / I'm Still Standing

37 Greg Kihn Band / Jeopardy

38 Duran Duran / Is There Something I Should Know?

39 Herbie Hancock / Rockit

40 Culture Club / Time (Clock of the Heart)

41 Billy Joel / Tell Her About It

42 The Police / Wrapped Around Your Finger

43 The Rolling Stones / Undercover of the Night

44 Thomas Dolby / She Blinded Me With Science

45 Gazebo / I Like Chopin

46 Ryan Paris / Dolce Vita

47 Patti Austin & James Ingram / Baby, Come to Me

48 Peabo Bryson & Roberta Flack / Tonight I Celebrate My Love

49 The Police / King of Pain

50 Culture Club / Church of the Poison Mind

51 Air Supply / Making Love (Out of Nothing At All)

52 Kenny Rogers & Sheena Easton / We've Got Tonight

53 David Bowie / Modern Love

54 Tracey Ullman / They Don't Know

55 Elton John / I Guess That's Why They Call it the Blues

56 KC & The Sunshine Band / Give it Up

57 Genesis / Mama

58 Men At Work / Overkill

59 U2 / New Year's Day

60 Renee & Renato / Save Your Love

61 Duran Duran / Save a Prayer

62 Prince / Little Red Corvette

63 The Eurythmics / Love is a Stranger

64 Bananarama / Cruel Summer

65 The Human League / (Keep Feeling) Fascination

66 Righeira / Vamos a la playa

67 Robin Gibb / Juliet

68 Indeep / Last Night a DJ Saved My Life

69 Electric Light Orchestra / Rock 'n' Roll is King

70 Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band / Shame On The Moon

71 New Edition / Candy Girl

72 Billy Idol / White Wedding

73 Christopher Cross / All Right

74 Frank Stallone / Far From Over

75 Talking Heads / Burning Down the House

76 Laid Back / Sunshine Reggae

77 Tears For Fears / Change

78 Paul Young / Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home)

79 The Weather Girls / It's Raining Men

80 Olivia Newton-John / Twist Of Fate

81 The Eurythmics / Who's That Girl?

82 The Stray Cats / (She's) Sexy & 17

83 Freeez / IOU

84 Sergio Mendes / Never Gonna Let You Go

85 Stevie Nicks / Stand Back

86 U2 / Sunday Bloody Sunday

87 Dire Straits / Twisting By the Pool

88 Michael Jackson / Human Nature

89 Journey / Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)

90 Rita Coolidge / All Time High

91 Depeche Mode / Everything Counts

92 A Flock of Seagulls / Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)

93 The Kinks / Come Dancing

94 Lionel Richie / You Are

95 The Fixx / One Thing Leads to Another

96 Rose Laurens / Africa (Voodoo Master)

97 Spandau Ballet / Gold

98 Hall & Oates / Say it Isn't So

99 After The Fire / Der Kommissar

100 Huey Lewis & The News / Heart & Soul

1983 Best Selling Albums

Based on Worldwide Sales

​  1 The Police / Synchronicity

  2 Lionel Richie / Can't Slow Down

  3 Original Soundtrack / Flashdance

  4 Culture Club / Colour By Numbers

  5 David Bowie / Let's Dance

  6 Pink Floyd / The Final Cut

  7 Billy Joel / An Innocent Man

  8 Genesis / Genesis

  9 U2 / War

10 ZZ Top / Eliminator

11 Def Leppard / Pyromania

12 Paul Young / No Parlez

13 Christopher Cross / Another Page

14 U2 / U2 Live 'Under A Blood Red Sky'

15 The Rolling Stones / Undercover

16 Yes / 90125

17 Bonnie Tyler / Faster Than The Speed Of Night

18 Mike Oldfield / Crises

19 Men At Work / Cargo

20 John Lennon / The John Lennon Collection

21 Iron Maiden / Piece Of Mind

22 The Eurythmics / Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

23 REM / Murmur

24 Bob Dylan / Infidels

25 Talking Heads / Speaking In Tongues

26 Elton John / Too Low for Zero

27 UB40 / Labour Of Love

28 Wham! / Fantastic

29 Paul McCartney / Pipes Of Peace

30 AC/DC / Flick Of The Switch

31 Journey / Frontiers

32 Asia / Alpha

33 Spandau Ballet / TRUE

34 Tears For Fears / The Hurting

35 Big Country / The Crossing

36 Rod Stewart / Body Wishes

37 Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band / The Distance

38 Robert Plant / The Principle Of Moments

39 Bee Gees / Staying Alive

40 Quiet Riot / Metal Health

41 Kenny Rogers / Eyes That See In The Dark

42 Styx / Kilroy Was Here

43 John Cougar Mellencamp / Uh-huh

44 Nena / Nena

45 Earth, Wind & Fire / Powerlight

46 Bryan Adams / Cuts Like A Knife

47 Stevie Ray Vaughan / Texas Flood

48 Donna Summer / She Works Hard For The Money

49 Kiss / Lick It Up

50 Jackson Browne / Lawyers In Love

51 Yazoo / You & Me Both

52 Stevie Nicks / The Wild Heart

53 Metallica / Kill 'Em All

54 Air Supply / Air Supply's Greatest Hits

55 Al Jarreau / Jarreau

56 Eddy Grant / Killer On The Rampage

57 Pat Benatar / Live From Earth

58 Heaven 17 / The Luxury Gap

59 Dio / Holy Diver

60 Tom Waits / Swordfishtrombones

61 The Stray Cats / Rant N' Rave With The Stray Cats

62 The Fixx / Reach The Beach

63 Men Without Hats / Rhythm Of Youth

64 Hall & Oates / Greatest Hits: Rock 'n Soul, Part 1

65 New Order / Power, Corruption & Lies

66 The Stray Cats / Built For Speed

67 Loverboy / Keep It Up

68 Bob Marley / Confrontation

69 Echo & The Bunnymen / Porcupine

70 Electric Light Orchestra / Secret Messages

71 Herbie Hancock / Future Shock

72 Rick Springfield / Living In Oz

73 George Benson / In Your Eyes

74 Linda Ronstadt / What's New?

75 Ozzy Osbourne / Bark At The Moon

76 Elvis Costello / Punch The Clock

77 Depeche Mode / Construction Time Again

78 Original Soundtrack / The Big Chill

79 Agnetha Faltskog / Wrap Your Arms Around Me

80 Eric Clapton / Money & Cigarettes

81 Kajagoogoo / White Feathers

82 Jane Fonda / Jane Fonda's Workout Record

83 Rondo Veneziano / Venise De L'an 2000

84 Saga / Heads Or Tales

85 Paul Simon / Hearts & Bones

86 Joan Armatrading / The Key

87 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark / Dazzle Ships

88 Sydne Rome / Aerobic - Fitness Dancing

89 Icehouse / Primitive Man

90 The The / Soul Mining

91 Little River Band / Little River Band Greatest Hits

92 Midnight Oil / 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

93 Malcolm McLaren / Duck Rock

94 Wolfgang Niedecken's BAP / Bess Demnahx

95 The B52s / Whammy!

96 Neil Young / Trans

97 A Flock of Seagulls / Listen

98 Motley Crue / Shout At The Devil

99 Thomas Dolby / The Golden Age Of Wireless

100 Randy Newman / Trouble in Paradise