1983 Number One Singles U.S. Pop
Title / Artist / Weeks at #1:
- 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
