RADIO AND RECORDS (USA) MAGAZINE'S (DUCKHEAD/popradiotop20.com) TOP POP SINGLES OF 1981*
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Pos.-Title-Artist-Label-Peak Month 1 BETTE DAVIS EYES-KIM CARNES-EMI AMERICA-JUNE 2 WAITING FOR A GIRL LIKE YOU-FOREIGNER-November 3 I CAN'T GO FOR THAT(NO CAN DO)-DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES-December 4 ENDLESS LOVE-DIANA ROSS & LIONEL RICHIE-August 5 THE ONE THAT YOU LOVE-AIR SUPPLY-July 6 WHO'S CRYING NOW-JOURNEY-September 7 ARTHUR'S THEME (BEST THAT YOU CAN DO)-CHRISTOPHER CROSS-September 8 KEEP ON LOVING YOU-REO Speedwagon-February 9 THE BEST OF TIMES-Styx-March 10 WOMAN-John Lennon-February 11 Private Eyes-Hall & Oates-October 12 Theme From "Greatest American Hero"-Joey Scarbury-July 13 Slow Hand-Pointer Sisters-July 14 The Tide Is High-Blondie-January 15 Just The Two Of Us-Grover Washington Jr.-April 16 Being With You-Smokey Robinson-May 17 Physical-Olivia Newton-John-November 18 I Don't Need You-Kenny Rogers-July 19 All Those Years Ago-George Harrison-June 20 Kiss On My List-Daryl Hall & John Oates-March 21 Morning Train (Nine To Five)-Sheena Easton-April 22 Living Inside Myself-Gino Vannelli-May 23 Hard To Say-Dan Fogelberg-October 24 9 To 5-Dolly Parton-February 25 Take It On The Run-REO Speedwagon-May 26 Leather And Lace-Stevie Nicks-December 27 While You See A Chance-Steve Winwood-April 28 Hey Nineteen-Steely Dan-January 29 Watching The Wheels-John Lennon-May 30 Lady (You Bring Me Up)-Commodores-August 31 Here I Am (Just When I Thought I Was Over You)-Air Supply-November 32 The Night Owls-Little River Band-October 33 Hearts-Marty Balin-July 34 Hello Again-Neil Diamond-March 35 Stop Draggin' My Heart Around-Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty-September 36 Step By Step-Eddie Rabbitt-September 37 Stars On 45-Stars On 45-June 38 For Your Eyes Only-Sheena Easton-October 39 Young Turks-Rod Stewart-December 40 Every Woman In The World-Air Supply-January 41 Her Town Too-James Taylor & J.D. Souther-April 42 Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic-Police-November 43 Oh No-Commodores-November 44 Celebration-Kool & The Gang-January 45 You Make My Dreams-Daryl Hall & John Oates-June 46 Passion-Rod Stewart-January 47 Queen Of Hearts-Juice Newton-August 48 I Love A Rainy Night-Eddie Rabbitt-January 49 Angel Of The Morning-Juice Newton-April 50 A Woman Needs Love-Ray Parker Jr. & Raydio-May 51 (There's) No Gettin' Over Me-Ronnie Milsap-August 52 Rapture-Blondie-February 53 Crying-Don McLean-February 54 The Voice-Moody Blues-September 55 I Love You-Climax Blues Band-May 56 Cool Love-Pablo Cruise-August 57 Tryin' To Live My Life Without You-Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band-November 58 America-Neil Diamond-June 59 Start Me Up-Rolling Stones-September 60 Why Do Fools Fall In Love-Diana Ross-December 61 Hold On Tight-Electric Light Orchestra-September 62 Urgent-Foreigner-August 63 A Little In Love-Cliff Richard-February 64 What Kind Of Fool-Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb-March 65 Time-Alan Parsons Project-July 66 Jessie's Girl-Rick Springfield-June 67 This Little Girl-Gary U.S. Bonds-June 68 Don't Stop Believin'-Journey-December 69 Tell It Like It Is-Heart-January 70 Boy From New York City-Manhattan Transfer-July 71 Sukiyaki-A Taste Of Honey-May 72 Gemini Dream-Moody Blues-July 73 Too Much Time On My Hands-Styx-May 74 We're In This Love Together-Al Jarreau-October 75 I've Done Everything For You-Rick Springfield-October 76 Yesterday's Songs-Neil Diamond-December 77 Same Old Lang Syne-Dan Fogelberg-January 78 Don't Stand So Close To Me-Police-April 79 Share Your Love With Me-Kenny Rogers-October 80 Really Wanna Know You-Gary Wright-August 81 Just Once-Quincy Jones & James Ingram-October 82 Games People Play-Alan Parsons Project-February 83 I Can't Stand It-Eric Clapton-April 84 I Made It Through The Rain-Barry Manilow-January 85 Sweetheart-Frankie & The Knockouts-May 86 Giving It Up For Your Love-Delbert McClinton-February 87 Is It You-Lee Ritenour-June 88 Miss Sun-Boz Scaggs-January 89 In The Air Tonight-Phil Collins-July 90 The Old Songs-Barry Manilow-November 91 Treat Me Right-Pat Benatar-March 92 Somebody's Knockin'-Terri Gibbs-April 93 Winning-Santana-June 94 Elvira-Oak Ridge Boys-July 95 I Missed Again-Phil Collins-May 96 Hearts On Fire-Randy Meisner-March 97 Touch Me When We're Dancing-Carpenters-July 98 When She Was My Girl-Four Tops-October 99 I Could Never Miss You (More Than I Do)-Lulu-September 100 De,Do,Do,Do,De,Da,Da,Da-Police-January 101 Living In A Fantasy-Leo Sayer-March 102 Fire And Ice-Pat Benatar-August 103 Modern Girl-Sheena Easton-July 104 The Waiting-Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers-June 105 That Old Song-Ray Parker,Jr.-September 106 Just Between You And Me-April Wine-April 107 Sweet Baby-Stanley Clarke/George Duke-July 108 Let's Groove-Earth,Wind and Fire-December 109 I Ain't Gonna Stand For It-Stevie Wonder-February 110 Time Out Of Mind-Steely Dan-April 111 Say Goodbye To Hollywood-Billy Joel-October 112 What Are We Doin' In Love-Dottie West-May 113 How 'Bout Us-Champaign-June 114 Sausalito Summernight-Diesel-November 115 No Reply At All-Genesis-November 116 My Girl (Gone,Gone,Gone,)-Chilliwack-November 117 You Better You Bet-The Who-April 118 Ain't Even Done With The Night-John Cougar-April 119 In Your Letter-R.E.O. Speedwagon-September 120 Smoky Mountain Rain-Ronnie Milsap-February 121 Say You'll Be Mine-Christopher Cross-May 122A Beach Boys Medley-Beach Boys-August 122B Time Is Time-Andy Gibb-January 124 The Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'Em)-Greg Kihn Band-August 125A Heart Like A Wheel-Steve Miller Band-November 125B Still Right Here In My Heart-Pure Prarie League-June 125C Theme From Hill Street Blues-Mike Post & Larry Carlton-September 128 The Winner Takes It All-Abba-March 129 Seven Bridges-Eagles-January 130 Atlanta Lady-Marty Balin-October 131A Don't Let Him Go-R.E.O. Speedwagon-July 131B Nobody Wins-Elton John-June 131C Our Lips Are Sealed-Go-Gos-December 134 Fade Away-Bruce Springsteen-March *Here is how Duckhead calculated this chart from Radio and Record charts. Points Points for the yearly charts are calculated using inverse points from the weekly charts. Each week, the # 1 song gets 20 points, the # 2 song gets 19 points, # 3 gets 18, and so on. The # 20 song gets 1 point. Each song's points are added up for each week to reach the total. A song's entire chart run will be used for the yearly chart. Songs appear on the yearly chart corresponding to the year they peak on the weekly charts. Tie-Breakers For songs that tie in points on the yearly charts, the following tie-breakers are used: 1. Most weeks at # 1 2. Most weeks at # 2 3. Most weeks at # 3 4. Most weeks at # 4 5. Etc. If songs remain tied after all 20 tie-breakers, then they will be listed as tied on the yearly chart. Tied songs appear in alphabetical order, and are marked by letters, for example: 99A and 99B.