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This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1982. [1] [2] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated December 25, 1982, is based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of November 1, 1981 through October 31, 1982.
This is a list of singles that have peaked in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 during 1982. A total of 81 songs hit the top-ten in 1982, including 15 number-one singles, and 6 number-two hits. Paul McCartney, Hall & Oates, Olivia Newton-John, and Diana Ross each had three top-ten hits in 1982, tying them for the most top-ten hits during the ...
At the time, 1982 had the second lowest number of number-one songs since 1956, with only 15 songs reaching the #1 spot. That year, 10 acts received their first number-one songs: The J. Geils Band , Joan Jett and the Blackhearts , Vangelis , The Human League , Survivor , John Cougar , Men at Work , Joe Cocker , Jennifer Warnes , and Toni Basil .
In 1982, 48 different singles topped the chart, then published under the title Hot Country Singles, in 52 issues of the magazine, based on playlists submitted by country music radio stations and sales reports submitted by stores. [1] The band Alabama achieved the most number ones by a single act, topping the chart four times.
July 1982: See chart performance entry "Promised You a Miracle" Simple Minds: April 1982: See chart performance entry "Senses Working Overtime" XTC: January 1982: See chart performance entry "Six Months in a Leaky Boat" Split Enz: May 1982: See chart performance entry "Solid Rock" Goanna: September 1982: 2 (Australia) – 61 (U.S. Billboard Hot ...
Suggs (pictured in 2008) and his band Madness had four singles in the UK top 10 in 1982, including their only number-one hit, "House of Fun". The UK Singles Chart is one of many music charts compiled by the Official Charts Company that calculates the best-selling singles of the week in the United Kingdom. [1]
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.
L. List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 1982; List of Billboard Adult Contemporary number ones of 1982; List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1982