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Every Breath You Take" by The Police (singer Sting pictured) was the number one song of 1983. Michael Jackson (pictured) had five songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1983. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1983. [1] [2]
These are the Billboard Hot 100 number one hits of 1983. The longest running number-one single of 1983 is "Every Breath You Take" by the Police at eight weeks.That year, 9 acts reached number one for the first time: Toto, Patti Austin, James Ingram, Dexys Midnight Runners, Irene Cara, The Police, Eurythmics, Michael Sembello, and Bonnie Tyler.
Michael Jackson had the highest number of top hits at the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (9 songs). In addition, Jackson remained the longest at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (27 weeks). Madonna ranked as the most successful female artist of the 1980s, with 7 songs and 15 weeks atop the chart.
This is a list of singles that have peaked in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 during 1983. A total of 96 singles hit the top-ten in 1983, an increase from 81 top-tens in the previous year. 16 singles reached number-one, while 8 songs reached a peak of number-two.
The 1980s produced chart-topping hits in pop, hip-hop, rock, and R&B. Here's a list of the best songs from the time, ranging from Toto to Michael Jackson.
Mendes, preparing for the release of his 1983 album, was quoted as saying, "All the other songs on the album were up and festive. I needed a ballad on the album, just to change the pace a bit." [1] Mendes' version was a hit, matching the No. 4 peak of his previous best showing on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, "The Look of Love", in 1968. [2]
In 1983, Billboard magazine published a chart ranking the top-performing songs in the United States in the adult contemporary music (AC) market. The chart, which in 1983 was published under the title Adult Contemporary, has undergone various name changes during its history but has again been published as Adult Contemporary since 1996. [1]
"This Time" is a hit song by Canadian rock star Bryan Adams, appearing as the third track on his 1983 album, Cuts Like a Knife, and released as the third single from that album. The single went to number 24 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 21 on the Top Rock Tracks chart during the fall of 1983.