1983
We were invading defenseless countries like Grenada and saying goodbye to M*A*S*H. We were sending the first woman astronaut in space and making Dynasty a big hit. And the only thing bigger than Cabbage Patch Dolls & Where's The Beef t-shirts was Michael Jackson. And we listened to:
song title |
artist |
Top 40 peak |
R&B peak |
peak date |
The Girl Is Mine | Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney | 2[3] | 1[3] | 1/8 |
Dirty Laundry | Don Henley | 3 | 1/8 | |
The Look Of Love | ABC | 18 | 1/8 | |
I Do | J. Geils Band | 24 | 1/8 | |
Let's Go Dancing (Ooh La La La) | Kool & The Gang | 30 | 7 | 1/8 |
Does It Make You Remember | Kim Carnes | 36 | 1/8 | |
Two Less Lonely People In The World | Air Supply | 38 | 1/8 | |
Down Under | Men At Work | 1[4] | 1/15 | |
Heartbreaker | Dionne Warwick | 10 | 14 | 1/15 |
Love In Store | Fleetwood Mac | 22 | 1/15 | |
Memory | Barry Manilow | 39 | 1/15 | |
Rock The Casbah | The Clash | 8 | 1/22 | |
Hand To Hold On To | John Cougar | 19 | 1/22 | |
Put It In A Magazine | Sonny Charles | 40 | 2[3] | 1/22 |
Sexual Healing | Marvin Gaye | 3 | 1[10] | 1/29 |
Heart To Heart | Kenny Loggins | 15 | 71 | 1/29 |
You Got Lucky | Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers | 20 | 1/29 | |
Heart Of The Night | Juice Newton | 25 | 1/29 | |
Shock The Monkey | Peter Gabriel | 29 | 64 | 1/29 |
Bad Boy | Ray Parker Jr. | 35 | 6 | 1/29 |
Africa | Toto | 1[1] | 2/5 | |
You Can't Hurry Love | Phil Collins | 10 | 2/5 | |
The Other Guy | Little River Band | 11 | 2/5 | |
Allentown | Billy Joel | 17 | 2/5 | |
You & I | Eddie Rabbitt & Crystal Gayle | 7 | 2/12 | |
Goody Two Shoes | Adam Ant | 12 | 2/12 | |
Space Age Love Song | A Flock Of Seagulls | 30 | 2/12 | |
I Knew You When | Linda Ronstadt | 37 | 2/12 | |
Baby Come To Me | Patti Austin & James Ingram | 1[2] | 9 | 2/19 |
I'm Alive | Neil Diamond | 35 | 2/19 | |
The Clapping Song | Pia Zadora | 36 | 88 | 2/19 |
Tied Up | Olivia Newton-John | 38 | 2/19 | |
Shame On The Moon | Bob Seger | 2[4] | 2/26 | |
Stray Cat Strut | Stray Cats | 3 | 2/26 | |
Pass The Dutchie | Musical Youth | 10 | 8 | 2/26 |
Your Love Is Driving Me Crazy | Sammy Hagar | 13 | 2/26 | |
On The Loose | Saga | 26 | 2/26 | |
The Woman In Me | Donna Summer | 33 | 30 | 2/26 |
Don't Tell Me You Love Me | Night Ranger | 40 | 2/26 | |
Billie Jean | Michael Jackson | 1[7] | 1[9] | 3/5 |
All Right | Christopher Cross | 12 | 3/5 | |
Dreamin' Is Easy | Steel Breeze | 30 | 3/5 | |
Burning Heart | Vandenberg | 39 | 3/12 | |
Back On The Chain Gang | The Pretenders | 5 | 3/19 | |
Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) | Journey | 8 | 3/19 | |
Fall In Love With Me | Earth, Wind & Fire | 17 | 4 | 3/19 |
Breaking Us In Two | Joe Jackson | 18 | 3/19 | |
Make Love Stay | Dan Fogelberg | 29 | 3/19 | |
My Kind Of Lady | Supertramp | 31 | 3/19 | |
Winds Of Change | Jefferson Starship | 38 | 3/19 | |
So Close | Diana Ross | 40 | 76 | 3/19 |
Do You Really Want To Hurt Me | Culture Club | 2[3] | 39 | 3/26 |
Hungry Like The Wolf | Duran Duran | 3 | 3/26 | |
You Are | Lionel Richie | 4 | 2[3] | 3/26 |
We've Got Tonight | Kenny Rogers & Sheena Easton | 6 | 3/26 | |
Twilight Zone | Golden Earring | 10 | 3/26 | |
I Know There's Something Goin' On | Frida | 13 | 3/26 | |
I've Got A Rock N' Heart | Eric Clapton | 18 | 3/26 | |
Little Too Late | Pat Benatar | 20 | 3/26 | |
Poison Arrow | ABC | 25 | 3/26 | |
Lies | Thompson Twins | 30 | 3/26 | |
I Don't Care Anymore | Phil Collins | 38 | 3/26 | |
Change Of Heart | Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers | 21 | 4/2 | |
One On One | Hall & Oates | 7 | 8 | 4/9 |
I Like It | Debarge | 31 | 2[4] | 4/9 |
Mr. Roboto | Styx | 3 | 4/16 | |
Come On Eileen | Dexy's Midnight Runners | 1[1] | 4/23 | |
Whirly Girl | Oxo | 28 | 4/23 | |
Beat It | Michael Jackson | 1[3] | 1[1] | 4/30 |
Der Kommissar | After The Fire | 5 | 4/30 | |
Welcome To Heartlight | Kenny Loggins | 24 | 4/30 | |
Some Kind Of Friend | Barry Manilow | 26 | 4/30 | |
Jeopardy | Greg Kihn Band | 3 | 5/7 | |
I Won't Hold You Back | Toto | 10 | 5/7 | |
Even Now | Bob Seger | 12 | 5/7 | |
It Might Be You | Stephen Bishop | 25 | 5/7 | |
So Wrong | Patrick Simmons | 30 | 77 | 5/7 |
She Blinded Me With Science | Thomas Dolby | 5 | 5/14 | |
Rio | Duran Duran | 14 | 5/14 | |
Mornin' | Al Jarreau | 21 | 6 | 5/14 |
Let's Dance | David Bowie | 1[1] | 14 | 5/21 |
Little Red Corvette | Prince | 6 | 15 | 5/21 |
Solitaire | Laura Branigan | 7 | 5/21 | |
Photograph | Def Leppard | 12 | 5/21 | |
I Couldn't Say No | Robert Ellis Orral w/ Carlene Carter | 32 | 5/21 | |
Gimme All Your Lovin' | ZZ Top | 37 | 5/21 | |
Flashdance...What A Feeling | Irene Cara | 1[6] | 2[5] | 5/28 |
Straight From The Heart | Bryan Adams | 10 | 5/28 | |
Stranger In My House | Ronnie Milsap | 23 | 5/28 | |
The One Thing | INXS | 30 | 5/28 | |
Looking For A Stranger | Pat Benatar | 39 | 5/28 | |
Overkill | Met At Work | 3 | 6/4 | |
All My Life | Kenny Rogers | 37 | 6/4 | |
My Love | Lionel Richie | 5 | 6 | 6/11 |
Always Something There To Remind Me | Naked Eyes | 8 | 6/11 | |
Faithfully | Journey | 12 | 6/11 | |
Try Again | Champaign | 23 | 2[2] | 6/11 |
No Time For Talk | Christopher Cross | 33 | 6/11 | |
The Closer You Get | Alabama | 38 | 6/11 | |
Time (Clock Of The Heart) | Culture Club | 2[2] | 34 | 6/18 |
Affair Of The Heart | Rick Springfield | 9 | 6/18 | |
We Two | Little River Band | 22 | 6/18 | |
The Woman In You | Bee Gees | 24 | 77 | 6/18 |
That's Love | Jim Capaldi | 28 | 6/18 | |
Family Man | Hall & Oates | 6 | 81 | 6/25 |