1. Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield
2. The One That You Love - Air Supply
3. Theme From Greatest American Hero - Joey Scarbury
4. I Don't Need You - Kenny Rogers
5. Elvira - The Oak Ridge Boys
6. Slow Hand - The Pointer Sisters
7. Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
8. Boy From New York City - The Manhattan Transfer
9. Hearts - Marty Balin
10. Queen Of Hearts - Juice Newton
11. You Make My Dreams - Daryl Hall & John Oates
12. Gemini Dream - The Moody Blues
13. (There's) No Gettin' Over Me - Ronnie Milsap
14. Endless Love - Diana Ross and Lionel Richie
15. Time - The Alan Parsons Project
16. Touch Me When We're Dancing - The Carpenters
17. Lady (You Bring Me Up) - Commodores
18. The Stroke - Billy Sqiuer
19. Sweet Baby - Stanley Clarke & George Duke
20. It's Now or Never - John Schneider

With a Top 20 like that, no wonder MTV became so popular! Two years
later:

1. Every Breath You Take - The Police
2. Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) - Eurythmics
3. She Works Hard For The Money - Donna Summer
4. Is There Something I Should Know - Duran Duran
5. Flashdance...What A Feeling - Irene Cara
6. Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
7. Maniac - Michael Sembello
8. Never Gonna Let You Go - Sergio Mendes
9. Stand Back - Stevie Nicks
10. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' - Michael Jackson
11. It's A Mistake - Men At Work
12. Our House - Madness
13. (Keep Feeling) Fascination - The Human League
14. Hot Girls In Love - Loverboy
15. Cuts Like A Knife - Bryan Adams
16. Come Dancing - The Kinks
17. 1999 - Prince
18. China Girl - David Bowie
19. Rock Of Ages - Def Leppard
20. I'll Tumble 4 Ya - Culture Club

and people blame MTV for the terrible state of music. i think it's time to reassess and get down on our knees and thank god for MTV.

Looking at those lists makes me sad.I miss the days when we actually had GOOD pop music on the charts!! What the hell happened?!!?

DavidEye said:

Elvira? seek help!

Mazerati said:

Without question,1983 was the BEST YEAR for pop music in the 80s.I love EVERY song on that chart!

Tessa said:

Ok,so we had a few duds.But the other songs are great

DavidEye said:

the Stroke? get thee to a nunnery!!

Billy Squire was da man!


remember his single "My Kinda Lover"?

DavidEye said:

i agree..its amazing how much of the top 40 i liked from 1982 to 1984..and even the stuff i thought was shit at the time even sounds good now

Mazerati said:

yeah,even the bad songs from back then sounds GREAT now,especially compared to the crap we get nowadays.

DavidEye said:

You know when the 15-25 year old orgers read these posts they think you are talking like their grandparents

Mazerati said:

if the chart was 1990, I would love every song proberly.



"rock of ages" is cool as is "electric avenue". I like eddie grant. "u give me hope joanna give me hope joanna" etc, remember that one?..... great feel good music.

PANDURITO said:

when the 15-25 year old orgers are 35-40, they'll be saying the same thing about bullshit like JoJo and Ashlee Simpson that DavidEye is saying now. and it will be just as insane then as it is now

Wow, 10 of the top 20 in 83 were British.

This was before the big US record companies squeezed import artists out of the market.

SquirrelMeat said:

Damn, you beat me to it, i was just going to post that. Having said that, Im not convinced the British music industry has much to offer anymore. The artists that deserve it tend to get recognition in the US. I would point out that only a certain kind of act tends to get to number one in the US now. There seems to be a little more variety then. Maybe its down to the way they compile the lists nowadays.

The pre-MTV cats had no idea. Only Lionel Richie and Hall and Oates survived past the mid-80's. Billy Squier coulda stayed huge if he'd had an inventive video director.

Then again, most of the acts on the '83 chart didn't last past '86.

CrozzaUK said:

you hit it right on the head when you said its probably how they compile the lists the only reason people like 50 cent have 4 songs in the billboard top 10 this week is because we are loaded here in the U.S with Rhythmic Hit radio stations and they play artists like 50 cent and the game and dont play stuff like Green Day or any other rock acts...so radio aiplay wise hip hop has a HUGE advantage and has for the last few years now on the billboard chart...

Martha quinn