RADIO AND RECORDS (USA) MAGAZINE'S (MAGAZINE'S CHART) TOP ROCK (AOR) ALBUMS OF 1981*

Pos.-Title-Artist-Label-Peak Month
 1 TATTOO YOU-ROLLING STONES
 2 4-Foreigner
 3 DON'T SAY NO-Billy Squier
 4 HI INFIDELITY-REO Speedwagon
 5 ESCAPE-Journey
 6 FACE VALUE-Phil Collins
 7 ARC OF THE DIVER-Steve Winwood
 8 PARADISE THEATER-Styx
 9 HARD PROMISES-Tom Petty & Heartbreakers
10 LONG DISTANCE VOYAGER-Moody Blues
11 Bella Donna-Stevie Nicks
12 Wild-Eyed Southern Boys-.38 Special
13 Precious Time-Pat Benatar
14 Moving Pictures-Rush-April
15 Zebop-Santana-June 
16 Rockihnroll-Greg Kihn Band
17 Face Dances-Who-May
18 Nature Of The Beast-April Wine
19 There Goes The Neighborhood-Joe Walsh
20 Modern Times-Jefferson Starship
21 Fire Of Unknown-Blue Oyster Cult
22 Loverboy-Loverboy
23 Heavy Metal Soundtrack
24 Double Fabtasy-John Lennon
25 River-Bruce Springsteen
26 Fair Warning-Van Halen
27 Blizzard Of Oz-Ozzy Osbourne
28 Gaucho-Steely Dan
29 Give The People What They Want-Kinks
30 El Loco-ZZ Top
31 The Completion Backward Principle-Tubes
32 Allied Forces-Triumph
33 Captured-Journey
34 Another Ticket-Eric Clapton
35 As Far As Siam-Red Rider
36 Nine Tonight-Bob Seger & Silver Bullet Band
37 Working Class Dog-Rick Springfield
38 Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap-AC/DC
38 Zenyatta Mondatta-Police
40 Ghost Riders-Outlaws
41 The Turn Of A Friendly Card-Alan Parsons Project
42 The Innocent Age-Dan Fogelberg
43 Chance-Manfred Mann's Earth Band
44 Abacab-Genesis
45 Marauder-Blackfoot
46 Moving Pictures-Rush
47 Ghosts In The Machine-Police
48 Time-Electric Light Orchestra
49 High 'N Dry-Def Leppard
50 Foolish Behaviour-Rod Stewart
51 Time Exposure-Little River Band
52 Breaking All The Rules-Peter Frampton
53 Dedication-Gary U.S. Bonds
54 American Excess-Point Blank
55 East Side Story-Squeeze
56 Back On The Streets-Donnie Iris
57 Quinella-Atlanta Rhythm Section
58 North Coast-Michael Stanley Band
59 Girls To Chat & Boys To Bance-Foghat
60 The Skill-The Sherbs
61 Fleetwood Mac Live-Fleetwood Mac
62 Mistaken Identity-Kim Carnes
63 Quarterflash-Quarterflash
64 B.L.T.-Robin Trower
65 Brothers Of The Road-Allman Brothers Band
66 Watts In A Tank-Diesel
67 The Right Place-Gary Wright
68 Difficult To Cure-Rainbow
69 Escape Artist-Garland Jeffreys
70 Icehouse-Icehouse
71 Kampuchea-Various Artists
72 Somewhere In England-George Harrison
73 Danny Joe Brown Band-Danny Joe Brown
74 Bad For Good-Jim Steinman
75 Point Of Entry-Judas Priest
76 Turn Back-Toto
77 Back In Black-AC/DC
78 Pretenders II-Pretenders
79 This Is The Way-Rossington-Collins Band
80 Crimes Of Passion-Pat Benatar
81 Extended Play-Pretenders

* As published in the December 11th,1981 issue of Radio And Records Magazine.