AUSTRALIAN CHART BOOK’S (AMR)TOP SINGLES OF 1983
No.-Song-Artist-Peak Month 1 AUSTRALIANA-AUSTEN TAYSHUS-SEPTEMBER 2 FLASHDANCE...WHAT A FEELING-Irene Cara-August 3 GLORIA-LAURA BRANIGAN-February 4 BILLIE JEAN-MICHAEL JACKSON-April 5 UP WHERE WE BELONG-JOE COCKER & JENNIFER WARNES-March 6 TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART-BONNIE TYLER-June 7 SAVE YOUR LOVE-RENEE & RENATO-May 8 KARMA CHAMELEON-Culture Club-November 9 BEAT IT-Michael Jackson-June 10 EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE-The Police-August 11 Bop Girl-Pat Wilson-October 12 Reckless (Don't Be So)/White Limbo(12" EP)-Australian Crawl--November 13 I Was Only 19-Redgum-May 14 Twistin' By The Pool (EP)-Dire Straits-March 15 Rain-Dragon-September 16 1999-Prince-May 17 Give It Up-KC & The Sunshine Band-November 18 Heartbreaker-Dionne Warwick-January 19 I'm Still Standing-Elton John-June 20 Electric Avenue-Eddy Grant-August 21 You Can't Hurry Love-Phil Collins-March 22 Do You Really Want To Hurt Me-Culture Club--January 23 The Safety Dance-Men Without Hats-October 24 Let's Dance-David Bowie-April 25 frica-Toto-February 26 Send Me An Angel-Real Life-July 27 Drop The Pilot-Joan Armatrading-May 28 I Eat Cannibals-Toto Coelo-January 29 I.O.U.-Freez-September 30 Young Guns(Go For It)-Wham!-February 31 Sexual Healing-Marvin Gaye-March 32 Red Red Wine-UB40-December 33 The Clapping Song-The Belle Stars-February 34 Puttin' On The Ritz-Taco-October 35 Truly-Lionel Richie-February 36 Don't Pay The Ferryman-Chris De Burgh-April 37 Church Of The Poison Mind-Culture Club-July 38 I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues-Elton John-September 39 Maniac-Michael Sembello-August 40 Islands In The Stream-Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton-December 41 Sweet Dreams(Are Made Of This)-Eurythmics-July 42 Always Something There To Remind Me-Naked Eyes-June 43 True-Spandau Ballet-September 44 Modern Love-David Bowie-November 45 Maggie-Foster & Allen-August 46 Baby,I Need Your Loving-Carl Carlton-April 47 Pass The Dutchie-Musical Youth-January 48 Shiny Shiny-Haysifantayzee-August 49 Words-F.R.David-October 50 She Works Hard For The Money-Donna Summer-August 51 Fraction Too Much Friction-Tim Finn-July 52 Moonlight Shadow-Mike Oldfield-September 53 Blue Monday-New Order-August 54 Is There Something I Should Know?-Duran Duran-May 55 Der Kommissar (The Commissioner)-Falco-June 56 Solid Rock-Goanna-January 57 Say,Say,Say-Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson-December 58 Living On The Ceiling-Blancmange-March 59 Tell Her About It-Billy Joel-September 60 I Could Be So Good For You(Theme From "Minder")-Dennis Waterman-February 61 White Wedding-Billy Idol-April 62 Uptown Girl-Billy Joel-December 63 Ain't No Pleasing You-Chas & Dave-March 64 Zoom-Fat Larry's Band-March 65 Shoop Shoop Diddy Wop-Monte Video & The Cassettes-May 66 Union Of The Snake-Duran Duran-November 67 Mirror Man-The Human League-February 68 We've Got Tonight-Kenny Rogers & Sheena Easton-March 69 Solitaire-Laura Branigan-June 70 Tonight, I Celebrate My Love-Roberta Flack & Peabo Bryson-November 71 Can't Take My Eyes Off You-Boys Town Gang-January 72 Wherever I Lay My Hat(That's My Home)-Paul Young-September 73 (Keep Feeling)Fascination-Human League-August 74 Gold-Spandau Ballet-November 75 I Don't Wanna Dance-Eddy Grant-May 76 Candy Girl-New Edition-August 77 Wham Rap(Enjoy What You Do)-Wham!-May 78 Little Red Corvette-Prince-July 79 Time(Clock Of The Heart)-Culture Club-March 80 Baby Jane-Rod Stewart-July 81 Overkill-Men At Work-May 82 Power And The Passion-Midnight Oil-April 83 Jeopardy-Greg Kihn Band-June 84 Too Shy-Kajagoogoo-April 85 The Message-Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five-March 86 Bad Boys-Wham!-August 87 All Night Long (All Night)-Lionel Richie-December 88 Dr.Heckle & Mr.Jive-Men At Work-January 89 I'm So Excited-The Pointer Sisters-January 90 Back On The Chain Gang-Pretenders-January 91 I Hear Motion-Models-November 92 Rock 'N' Roll Is King-Electric Light Orchestra-August 93 Mad World-Tears For Fear-April 94 Let's Go To Bed-Cure-June 95 Orchard Road-Leo Sayer-July 96 Science Fiction-Divinyls-February 97 Montego Bay-All Niters-November 98 Let The Franklin Flow-Gordon Franklin & The Wilderness Ensemble-June 99 When You Were Sweet Sixteen-The Fureys-February 100 McRawhide-The Chaps-November 101 Maneater-Daryl Hall & John Oates-January 102 Down Under-Men At Work-October 103 We're Coming To Get You-Glenn Shorrock-October 104 Hold Me Tight/No Sense-Cold Chisel-December 105 Double Dutch-Malcolm McLaren-September