BILLBOARD MAGAZINE'S (MAGAZINE'S CHART) TOP 100 ALBUMS OF 1983*
No. Album-Artist-Label-Peak Month 1 THRILLER-MICHAEL JACKSON 2 BUSINESS AS USUAL-Men At Work 3 SYNCHRONICITY-The Police 4 H20-Daryl Hall & John Oates 5 1999-Prince 6 LIONEL RICHIE-Lionel Richie 7 JANE FONDA'S WORKOUT RECORD-Jane Fonda 8 PYROMANIA-Def Leppard 9 KISSING TO BE CLEVER-Culture Club-April 10 OLIVIA's GREATEST HITS:VOLUME 2-Olivia Newton-John 11 Toto IV-Toto 12 Frontiers-Journey 13 Rio-Duran Duran-March 14 Built For Speed-Stray Cats-January 15 Cuts Like A Knife-Bryan Adams-June 16 Get Nervous-Pat Benatar-January 17 The Distance-Bob Seger & Silver Bullet Band-March 18 Get Lucky-Loverboy 19 Mountain Music-Alabama 20 Flashdance-Soundtrack 21 Hello I Must Be Going-Phil Collins 22 Night & Day-Joe Jackson 23 Spring Session M-Missing Persons 24 Kilroy Was Here-Styx 25 War-U2 26 Duran Duran-Duran Duran 27 Always On My Mind-Willie Nelson 28 Let's Dance-David Bowie 29 The Closer You Get-Alabama 30 Combat Rock-Clash 31 Eliminator-ZZ Top 32 American Fool-John Cougar 33 Nylon Curtain-Billy Joel 34 Rscape-Journey 35 High 'N Dry-Def Leppard 36 High Adventure-Kenny Loggins 37 Long After Dark-Tom Petty & Heartbreakers 38 Pancho & Lefty-Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard 39 Cargo-Men At Work 40 Special Beat Service-The English Beat 41 Friend And Foe-Adam Ant 42 The Lexicon Of Love-ABC 43 All This Love-Debarge 44 Living In Oz-Rick Springfield 45 Midnight Love-Marvin Gaye 46 Three Lock Box-Sammy Hagar 47 Greatest Hits-Dan Fogelberg 48 Jarreau-Al Jarreau 49 Emotions In Motion-Billy Squier 50 Outside Inside-Tubes 51 Killer On The Rampage-Eddy Grant 52 Worlds Apart-Saga 53 Forever,For Always,For Love-Luther Vandross 54 Famous Last Words-Supertramp 55 She Blinded Me With Science-Thomas Dolby 56 Reach The Beach-The Fixx 57 Metal Health-Quiet Riot 58 Heartlight-Neil Diamond 59 Golden Age Of The Wireless-Thomas Dolby 60 Branigan-Laura Branigan 61 Bella Donna-Stevie Nicks 62 Naked Eyes-Naked Eyes 63 Headhunter-Krokus 64 Winds Of Change-Jefferson Starship 65 Never Surrender-Triumph 66 Pleasure Victim-berlin 67 Cut-Golden Earring 68 Screaming For Vengeance-Judas Priest 69 Too Tough-Angela Bofill 70 Records-Foreigner 71 Heartbreaker-Dionne Warwick 72 Sweet Dreams(Are Made Of This)-Eurythmics 73 I Can't Stand Still-Don Henley 74 Greatest Hits-Little River Band 75 Visions-Gladys Knight & The Pips 76 Scandal-Scandal 77 Too-Re-Ay-Dexys Midnight Runners 78 Piece Of Mind-Iron Maiden 79 Julio-Julio Iglesias 80 The Wild Heart-Stevie Nicks 81 Forever Now-Psychedelic Furs 82 Speaking In Tongues-Talking Heads 83 Dawn Patrol-Night Ranger 84 Keep It Up-Loverboy 85 State Of Confusion-Kinks 86 Daylight Again-Crosby,Stills & Nash 87 Sergio Mendes-Sergio Mendes 88 Mirage-Fleetwood Mac 89 Love For Love-The Whispers 90 Kihnspiracy-Greg Kihn Band 91 Here Comes The Night-Barry Manilow 92 In Your Eyes-George Benson 93 Madness-Madness 94 A Flock Of Seagulls-A Flock Of Seagulls 95 Dark Side Of The Moon-Pink Floyd 96 Gap Band IV-The Gap Band 97 We've Got Tonight-Kenny Rogers 98 Every Home Should Have One-Patti Austin 99 Nightfly-Donald Fagen 100 Word Of Mouth-Toni Basil * As published in the December 24th,1983 issue of Billboard Magazine.