Year End Charts

for Friday, December 31, 1982

1. Secret Service · Cutting Corners
2. Duran Duran · Rio
3. Roxy Music · Avalon
4. The Spoons · Arias and Symphonies
5. ABC · Lexicon of Love
6. Joe Jackson · Night and Day
7. Peter Gabriel · Security
8. Kate Bush · The Dreaming
9. Flock of Seagulls · Flock of Seagulls
10. Culture Club · Kissing to be Clever
11. Clash · Combat Rock
12. The Beat · Special Beat Service
13. Men At Work · Business as Usual
14. Psychedelic Furs · Forever Now
15. Yazoo · Upstairs at Eric's
16. UB40 · UB44
17. Haircut 100 · Pelican West
18. China Crisis · Difficult Shapes
19. Mike Oldfield · Five Miles Out
20. Dexy's Midnite Runners · Too-Rye-Aye
21. The Jam · The Gift
22. Tears for Fears · Pale Shelter
23. Dire Straits · Love Over Gold
24. Rough Trade · Shakin' the Foundations
25. Thomas Dolby · The Golden Age of Wireless
26. XTC · English Settlement
27. New Order · Temptation
28. Soft Cell · Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing
29. Blue Peter · Up To You
30. Human League · Dare (Domestic Release)
31. Gang of Four · Songs for the Free
32. Stray Cats · Built for Speed
33. Joe Cocker · Sheffield Steel
34. Fashion · Fabrique
35. Depeche Mode · A Broken Frame
36. Musical Youth · Youth of Today
37. Thompson Twins · In the Name of Love
38. Leisure Process · Love Cascade
39. Elvis Costello · Imperial Bedroom
40. Talking Heads · The Name of This Band
41. Pete Shelley · Homosapien
42. Billy Idol · Billy Idol
43. Payolas · No Stranger to Danger
44. B Movie · No Where Girl
45. Spandau Ballet · Diamond
46. Associates · Sulk
47. Captain Sensible · Women and Captains First
48. Fun Boy Three · Fun Boy Three
49. Romeo Void · Benefactor
50. Pat Metheny · Off Ramp
51. Black Uhuru · Chill Out
52. Altered Images · Pink Blue (I Could Be Happy)
53. Heaven 17 · Let Me Go
54. Grandmaster Flash · The Message
55. Level 42 · Level 42
56. Phil Collins · Hello, I Must Be Going
57. Rush · Signals
58. Ultravox · Quartet
59. The Fixx · Shuttered Room
60. New Musik · Warp
61. Nina Hagen · Nunsex Munic Rock
62. Gil-Scott Heron · Moving Target
63. Bill Nelson · Love That Whirls
64. Ice House · Primitive Man
65. Phil Manzanera · Primitive Guitars
66. Visage · The Anivil
67. Flash and the Pan · Headlines
68. Naked Eyes · Always Something There
69. Van Morrison · Beautiful Vision
70. The Buggles · Adventures in Modern Recording
71. Soft Machine · Land of Cocaine
72. Men Without Hats · Rhythm of Youth
73. Steel Pulse · True Democracy
74. King Crimson · Beat
75. Nash the Slash · And You Thought You Were Normal
76. Adrien Belew · Loan Rhinocerous
77. Lene Lovich · No Man's Land
78. Secret Service · Cutting Corners
79. Way of the West · White Boys
80. Falco · Einzelhaft
81. Bauhaus · Sky's Falling Out
82. Rational Youth · Cold War Nite Life