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List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 1983

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Main page The Billboard 200, published in Billboard magazine, is a weekly chart that ranks the highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States. In 1983, the name of the chart was Top LPs
Contents & Tape. Before Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991, Billboard estimated sales from a representative sampling of record stores nationwide, using telephone, fax or messenger
Current events service.[1] Data were based on rankings made by the record stores of the best-selling records, not on actual sales figures.[2][3]
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About Wikipedia There were six number-one albums on this chart in 1983, including the debut album of the Australian band Men at Work, Business as Usual, which spent the last seven weeks of 1982 and
Contact us the first eight weeks of 1983 at number one, and was certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 1984.[4] Thriller, the sixth studio album by
Donate recording artist Michael Jackson, was released on November 1982. It peaked at number one for twenty-two non-consecutive weeks in 1983 with another fifteen consecutive weeks at the top
into the following year, and seven songs from the album became top ten singles between late 1982 and early 1984.[5] Two of them: "Billie Jean" and "Beat It", reached the top position of the
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Billboard Hot 100.[6][7] Thriller won eight Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year at the 26th Grammy Awards,[8] and was the best-selling album of 1983 with more than fifteen million
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copies sold.[9] In 2008, twenty-five years after its release, the record was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, and a few weeks later, it was among twenty-five recordings preserved by
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the Library of Congress to the National Recording Registry as "culturally significant".[10][11]
Recent changes Flashdance, the soundtrack to the 1983 musical and romance film of the same name, peaked at number one for two weeks and won the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for
Upload file a Motion Picture.[12] The two singles released from the album, "Flashdance... What a Feeling" by Irene Cara, and "Maniac" by Michael Sembello, reached the top of the singles chart in
Tools 1983.[13][14] The New York Times considered the British band The Police to be the year's most influential rock band. Australian, British, and American bands copied the white-reggae formula
of their (The Police's) earlier successes.[9] The group released their fifth and final studio album, Synchronicity, in 1983. The album, a varied accomplished blend of rock, funk, and third-
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Related changes world rhythms,[9] stayed at number one for seventeen weeks and was certified four times platinum by the RIAA in 1984.[4] Metal Health, the third album by heavy metal band Quiet Riot, Michael Jackson's sixth album
Thriller spent twenty-two weeks at
Special pages peaked at number one for one week, becoming the first heavy metal record to reach the top of the Billboard 200.[15] Singer-songwriter Lionel Richie released his second album Can't Slow
number one, sold more than fifteen
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Issue date Album Artist(s) Label Ref.
Languages January 1 [17]

Deutsch [18]
January 8
Español
January 15 [19]
Français
Bahasa Indonesia January 22 [20]
Polski Business as Usual Men at Work Columbia
January 29 [21]
Português
February 5 [22]
Русский
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February 12
February 19 [24]

February 26 [25]

March 5 [26]

March 12 [27]

March 19 [28]

March 26 [29]

April 2 [30]

April 9 [31]

April 16 [32]

April 23 Thriller Michael Jackson Epic [33]

April 30 [34]

May 7 [35]

May 14 [36]

May 21 [37]

May 28 [38]

June 4 [39]

June 11 [40]

June 18 [41]

June 25 [42]
Flashdance Soundtrack Casablanca
July 2 [43]

July 9 [44]
Thriller Michael Jackson Epic
July 16 [45]

July 23 [46]

July 30 [47]

August 6 [48]

August 13 Synchronicity The Police A&M [49]

August 20 [50]

August 27 [51]

September 3 [52]

September 10 Thriller Michael Jackson Epic [53]

September 17 [54]

September 24 [55]

October 1 [56]

October 8 [57]

October 15 [58]
Synchronicity The Police A&M
October 22 [59]

October 29 [60]

November 5 [61]

November 12 [62]

November 19 [63]

November 26 Metal Health Quiet Riot Pasha [64]

December 3 [65]

December 10 Can't Slow Down Lionel Richie Motown [66]

December 17 [67]

December 24 [68]
Thriller Michael Jackson Epic
December 31 [69]

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1983 in music

References [ edit ]
 1. ^ "Ropin' the Charts SoundScan System Good for Music and for 14. ^ "The Billboard Hot 100: Week of Sep 10, 1983" . Billboard. Nielsen 41. ^ "June 18, 1983" . Billboard 200.
Listeners ..." The Fresno Bee. The McClatchy Company. December Business Media, Inc. September 10, 1983. Retrieved December 16, 42. ^ "June 25, 1983" . Billboard 200.
29, 1991. Retrieved on January 21, 2009. 2010. 43. ^ "July 2, 1983" . Billboard 200.
2. ^ Holden, Stephen (June 22, 1991). "Billboard's New Charts Roil the 15. ^ Rivadavia, Eduardo; Franck, J. "Album Review: Metal Health" . 44. ^ "July 9, 1983" . Billboard 200.
Record Industry" . The New York Times. Retrieved on January 21, Allmusic. Macrovision Corporation. Retrieved January 19, 2009. 45. ^ "July 16, 1983" . Billboard 200.
2009. 16. ^ "Grammy Awards Winners: Can't Slow Down" . The Recording 46. ^ "July 23, 1983" . Billboard 200.
3. ^ Goldstein, Patrick (September 21, 1991). "Hype, Hokey-Pokey and the Academy. Retrieved January 17, 2009. 47. ^ "July 30, 1983" . Billboard 200.
Hot 100" . Los Angeles Times. Retrieved on January 21, 2009. 17. ^ "January 1, 1983" . Billboard 200. 48. ^ "August 6, 1983" . Billboard 200.
4. ^a b "Gold & Platinum" . Recording Industry Association of America. 18. ^ "January 8, 1983" . Billboard 200. 49. ^ "August 13, 1983" . Billboard 200.
1984. Archived from the original on June 26, 2007. Retrieved 19. ^ "January 15, 1983" . Billboard 200. 50. ^ "August 20, 1983" . Billboard 200.
January 17, 2009. 20. ^ "January 22, 1983" . Billboard 200. 51. ^ "August 27, 1983" . Billboard 200.
5. ^ Cocks, Jay (March 19, 1984). "Why He's a Thriller" . Time. Time 21. ^ "January 29, 1983" . Billboard 200. 52. ^ "September 3, 1983" . Billboard 200.
Warner, Inc. Archived from the original on March 21, 2007. Retrieved 22. ^ "February 5, 1983" . Billboard 200. 53. ^ "September 10, 1983" . Billboard 200.
January 17, 2009. 23. ^ "February 12, 1983" . Billboard 200. 54. ^ "September 17, 1983" . Billboard 200.
6. ^ "The Billboard Hot 100: Week of Mar 05, 1983" . Billboard. Nielsen 24. ^ "February 19, 1983" . Billboard 200. 55. ^ "September 24, 1983" . Billboard 200.
Business Media, Inc. March 5, 1983. Retrieved December 16, 2010.
25. ^ "February 26, 1983" . Billboard 200. 56. ^ "October 1, 1983" . Billboard 200.
7. ^ "The Billboard Hot 100: Week of Apr 30, 1983" . Billboard. Nielsen
26. ^ "March 5, 1983" . Billboard 200. 57. ^ "October 8, 1983" . Billboard 200.
Business Media, Inc. April 30, 1983. Retrieved December 16, 2010.
27. ^ "March 12, 1983" . Billboard 200. 58. ^ "October 15, 1983" . Billboard 200.
8. ^ "Grammy Awards Winners: Thriller" . The Recording Academy.
28. ^ "March 19, 1983" . Billboard 200. 59. ^ "October 22, 1983" . Billboard 200.
Retrieved January 17, 2009.
29. ^ "March 26, 1983" . Billboard 200. 60. ^ "October 29, 1983" . Billboard 200.
9. ^ a bc
Palmer, Robert (December 25, 1983). "Energy and Creativity
30. ^ "April 2, 1983" . Billboard 200. 61. ^ "November 5, 1983" . Billboard 200.
added up to Exciting Pop" . The New York Times. Retrieved on January
31. ^ "April 9, 1983" . Billboard 200. 62. ^ "November 12, 1983" . Billboard 200.
17, 2009.
32. ^ "April 16, 1983" . Billboard 200. 63. ^ "November 19, 1983" . Billboard 200.
10. ^ "2008 Grammy Hall of Fame" (PDF). The Recording Academy.
33. ^ "April 23, 1983" . Billboard 200. 64. ^ "November 26, 1983" . Billboard 200.
2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 16, 2008. Retrieved
January 17, 2009. 34. ^ "April 30, 1983" . Billboard 200. 65. ^ "December 3, 1983" . Billboard 200.
11. ^ "Thriller, Joni Mitchell album make the cut for US recording registry" . 35. ^ "May 7, 1983" . Billboard 200. 66. ^ "December 10, 1983" . Billboard 200.
CBC News. May 14, 2008. Retrieved on May 17, 2008. 36. ^ "May 14, 1983" . Billboard 200. 67. ^ "December 17, 1983" . Billboard 200.
12. ^ "Grammy Awards Winners: Flashdance" . The Recording Academy. 37. ^ "May 21, 1983" . Billboard 200. 68. ^ "December 24, 1983" . Billboard 200.
Retrieved January 17, 2009. 38. ^ "May 28, 1983" . Billboard 200. 69. ^ "December 31, 1983" . Billboard 200.
13. ^ "The Billboard Hot 100: Week of May 28, 1983" . Billboard. Nielsen 39. ^ "June 4, 1983" . Billboard 200.
Business Media, Inc. May 28, 1983. Retrieved December 16, 2010. 40. ^ "June 11, 1983" . Billboard 200.

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