RADIO AND RECORDS (USA) MAGAZINE'S (MAGAZINE'S CHART) TOP ROCK (AOR) ALBUMS OF 1981*
Pos.-Title-Artist-Label-Peak Month 1 TATTOO YOU-ROLLING STONES 2 4-Foreigner 3 DON'T SAY NO-Billy Squier 4 HI INFIDELITY-REO Speedwagon 5 ESCAPE-Journey 6 FACE VALUE-Phil Collins 7 ARC OF THE DIVER-Steve Winwood 8 PARADISE THEATER-Styx 9 HARD PROMISES-Tom Petty & Heartbreakers 10 LONG DISTANCE VOYAGER-Moody Blues 11 Bella Donna-Stevie Nicks 12 Wild-Eyed Southern Boys-.38 Special 13 Precious Time-Pat Benatar 14 Moving Pictures-Rush-April 15 Zebop-Santana-June 16 Rockihnroll-Greg Kihn Band 17 Face Dances-Who-May 18 Nature Of The Beast-April Wine 19 There Goes The Neighborhood-Joe Walsh 20 Modern Times-Jefferson Starship 21 Fire Of Unknown-Blue Oyster Cult 22 Loverboy-Loverboy 23 Heavy Metal Soundtrack 24 Double Fabtasy-John Lennon 25 River-Bruce Springsteen 26 Fair Warning-Van Halen 27 Blizzard Of Oz-Ozzy Osbourne 28 Gaucho-Steely Dan 29 Give The People What They Want-Kinks 30 El Loco-ZZ Top 31 The Completion Backward Principle-Tubes 32 Allied Forces-Triumph 33 Captured-Journey 34 Another Ticket-Eric Clapton 35 As Far As Siam-Red Rider 36 Nine Tonight-Bob Seger & Silver Bullet Band 37 Working Class Dog-Rick Springfield 38 Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap-AC/DC 38 Zenyatta Mondatta-Police 40 Ghost Riders-Outlaws 41 The Turn Of A Friendly Card-Alan Parsons Project 42 The Innocent Age-Dan Fogelberg 43 Chance-Manfred Mann's Earth Band 44 Abacab-Genesis 45 Marauder-Blackfoot 46 Moving Pictures-Rush 47 Ghosts In The Machine-Police 48 Time-Electric Light Orchestra 49 High 'N Dry-Def Leppard 50 Foolish Behaviour-Rod Stewart 51 Time Exposure-Little River Band 52 Breaking All The Rules-Peter Frampton 53 Dedication-Gary U.S. Bonds 54 American Excess-Point Blank 55 East Side Story-Squeeze 56 Back On The Streets-Donnie Iris 57 Quinella-Atlanta Rhythm Section 58 North Coast-Michael Stanley Band 59 Girls To Chat & Boys To Bance-Foghat 60 The Skill-The Sherbs 61 Fleetwood Mac Live-Fleetwood Mac 62 Mistaken Identity-Kim Carnes 63 Quarterflash-Quarterflash 64 B.L.T.-Robin Trower 65 Brothers Of The Road-Allman Brothers Band 66 Watts In A Tank-Diesel 67 The Right Place-Gary Wright 68 Difficult To Cure-Rainbow 69 Escape Artist-Garland Jeffreys 70 Icehouse-Icehouse 71 Kampuchea-Various Artists 72 Somewhere In England-George Harrison 73 Danny Joe Brown Band-Danny Joe Brown 74 Bad For Good-Jim Steinman 75 Point Of Entry-Judas Priest 76 Turn Back-Toto 77 Back In Black-AC/DC 78 Pretenders II-Pretenders 79 This Is The Way-Rossington-Collins Band 80 Crimes Of Passion-Pat Benatar 81 Extended Play-Pretenders * As published in the December 11th,1981 issue of Radio And Records Magazine.