BILLBOARD MAGAZINE'S (MAGAZINE'S CHART) TOP 100 ALBUMS OF 1983*

No. Album-Artist-Label-Peak Month
  1 THRILLER-MICHAEL JACKSON
  2 BUSINESS AS USUAL-Men At Work
  3 SYNCHRONICITY-The Police
  4 H20-Daryl Hall & John Oates
  5 1999-Prince
  6 LIONEL RICHIE-Lionel Richie
  7 JANE FONDA'S WORKOUT RECORD-Jane Fonda
  8 PYROMANIA-Def Leppard
  9 KISSING TO BE CLEVER-Culture Club-April
 10 OLIVIA's GREATEST HITS:VOLUME 2-Olivia Newton-John
 11 Toto IV-Toto
 12 Frontiers-Journey
 13 Rio-Duran Duran-March
 14 Built For Speed-Stray Cats-January
 15 Cuts Like A Knife-Bryan Adams-June
 16 Get Nervous-Pat Benatar-January
 17 The Distance-Bob Seger & Silver Bullet Band-March
 18 Get Lucky-Loverboy
 19 Mountain Music-Alabama
 20 Flashdance-Soundtrack
 21 Hello I Must Be Going-Phil Collins
 22 Night & Day-Joe Jackson
 23 Spring Session M-Missing Persons
 24 Kilroy Was Here-Styx
 25 War-U2
 26 Duran Duran-Duran Duran
 27 Always On My Mind-Willie Nelson
 28 Let's Dance-David Bowie
 29 The Closer You Get-Alabama
 30 Combat Rock-Clash
 31 Eliminator-ZZ Top
 32 American Fool-John Cougar
 33 Nylon Curtain-Billy Joel
 34 Rscape-Journey
 35 High 'N Dry-Def Leppard
 36 High Adventure-Kenny Loggins
 37 Long After Dark-Tom Petty & Heartbreakers
 38 Pancho & Lefty-Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard
 39 Cargo-Men At Work
 40 Special Beat Service-The English Beat
 41 Friend And Foe-Adam Ant
 42 The Lexicon Of Love-ABC
 43 All This Love-Debarge
 44 Living In Oz-Rick Springfield
 45 Midnight Love-Marvin Gaye
 46 Three Lock Box-Sammy Hagar
 47 Greatest Hits-Dan Fogelberg
 48 Jarreau-Al Jarreau
 49 Emotions In Motion-Billy Squier
 50 Outside Inside-Tubes
 51 Killer On The Rampage-Eddy Grant
 52 Worlds Apart-Saga
 53 Forever,For Always,For Love-Luther Vandross
 54 Famous Last Words-Supertramp
 55 She Blinded Me With Science-Thomas Dolby
 56 Reach The Beach-The Fixx
 57 Metal Health-Quiet Riot
 58 Heartlight-Neil Diamond
 59 Golden Age Of The Wireless-Thomas Dolby
 60 Branigan-Laura Branigan
 61 Bella Donna-Stevie Nicks
 62 Naked Eyes-Naked Eyes
 63 Headhunter-Krokus
 64 Winds Of Change-Jefferson Starship
 65 Never Surrender-Triumph
 66 Pleasure Victim-berlin
 67 Cut-Golden Earring
 68 Screaming For Vengeance-Judas Priest
 69 Too Tough-Angela Bofill
 70 Records-Foreigner
 71 Heartbreaker-Dionne Warwick
 72 Sweet Dreams(Are Made Of This)-Eurythmics
 73 I Can't Stand Still-Don Henley
 74 Greatest Hits-Little River Band
 75 Visions-Gladys Knight & The Pips
 76 Scandal-Scandal
 77 Too-Re-Ay-Dexys Midnight Runners
 78 Piece Of Mind-Iron Maiden
 79 Julio-Julio Iglesias
 80 The Wild Heart-Stevie Nicks
 81 Forever Now-Psychedelic Furs
 82 Speaking In Tongues-Talking Heads
 83 Dawn Patrol-Night Ranger
 84 Keep It Up-Loverboy
 85 State Of Confusion-Kinks
 86 Daylight Again-Crosby,Stills & Nash
 87 Sergio Mendes-Sergio Mendes
 88 Mirage-Fleetwood Mac
 89 Love For Love-The Whispers
 90 Kihnspiracy-Greg Kihn Band
 91 Here Comes The Night-Barry Manilow
 92 In Your Eyes-George Benson
 93 Madness-Madness
 94 A Flock Of Seagulls-A Flock Of Seagulls
 95 Dark Side Of The Moon-Pink Floyd
 96 Gap Band IV-The Gap Band
 97 We've Got Tonight-Kenny Rogers
 98 Every Home Should Have One-Patti Austin
 99 Nightfly-Donald Fagen
100 Word Of Mouth-Toni Basil

* As published in the December 24th,1983 issue of Billboard Magazine.