BILLBOARD (USA) MAGAZINE’S (MAGAZINE’S CHART) TOP 100 ALBUMS OF 1980*
No. Album-Artist 1 THE WALL-PINK FLOYD 2 THE LONG RUN-Eagles 3 OFF THE WALL-Michael Jackson 4 GLASS HOUSES-Billy Joel 5 DAMN THE TORPEDOES-Tom Petty & Heartbreakers 6 AGAINST THE WIND-Bob Seger & Silver Bullet Band 7 IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT-Pat Benatar 8 EAT TO THE BEAT-Blondie 9 IN THROUGH THE OUT DOOR-Led Zeppelin 10 KENNY-Kenny Rogers 11 Ladies Night-Kool & Gang 12 The Rose-Soundtrack 13 Cornerstone-Styx 14 On The Radio:Greatest Hits Volumes I & II-Donna Summer 15 Phoenix-Dan Fogelberg 16 Keep The Fire-Kenny Loggins 17 Christopher Cross-Christopher Cross 18 The Game-Queen 19 The Pretenders-The Pretenders 20 Tusk-Fleetwood Mac 21 Breakfast In America-Supertramp 22 Midnight Magic-Commodores 23 Rise-Herb Alpert 24 Flirtin' With Disaster-Molly Hatchet 25 Greatest Hits-Waylon Jennings 26 Whispers-Whispers 27 Mad Love-Linda Ronstadt 28 Love Stinks-J.Geils Band 29 B52s-B52s 30 Gold & Platinum-Lynyrd Skynyrd 31 Head Games-Foreigner 32 Candy O-Cars 33 Greatest-Bee Gees 34 Departure-Journey 35 Emotional Rescue-Rolling Stones 36 Dionne-Dionne Warwick 37 Middle Man-Boz Scaggs 38 Light Up The Night-Brothers Johnson 39 Deguello-ZZ Top 40 Parallel Lines-Blondie 41 Highway To Hell-AC/DC 42 Let's Get Serious-Jermaine Jackson 43 Angel Of The Night-Angela Bofill 44 Duke-Genesis 45 Freedom At Point Zero-Jefferson Starship 46 Evolution-Journey 47 Just One Night-Eric Clapton 48 Cars-Cars 49 London Calling-The Clash 50 The Pleasure Principle-Gary Numan 51 Women & Children First-Van Halen 52 One On One-Bob James And Earl Klugh 53 Permanent Waves-Rush 54 Where There's Smoke-Smokey Robinson 55 Wet-Barbra Streisand 56 Big Fun-Shalamar 57 Partners In Crime-Rupert Holmes 58 Mouth To Mouth-Lipps,Inc. 59 One Voice-Barry Manilow 60 Empty Glass-Pete Townsend 61 Urban Cowboy-Soundtrack 62 Sweet Sensation-Stephanie Mills 63 The Empire Strikes Back-Soundtrack 64 One Eighty-Ambrosia 65 Prince-Prince 66 Dream Police-Cheap Trick 67 Hydra-Toto 68 Masterjam-Rufus & Chaka 69 American Gigolo-Soundtrack 70 Don't Let Go-Isaac Hayes 71 Gideon-Kenny Rogers 72 Get The Knack-Knack 73 Ray,Goodman & Brown-Ray,Goodman & Brown 74 After Midnight-The Manhattans 75 Crash And Burn-Pat Travers Band 76 Trilogy:Past,Present And Future-Frank Sinatra 77 Catching The Sun-Spyro Gyra 78 Rust Never Sleeps-Neil Young 79 Regatta de Blanc-Police 80 Dark Side Of The Moon-Pink Floyd 81 Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants-Stevie Wonder 82 Miss the Mississippi-Crystal Gayle 83 Eve-Alan Parson's Project 84 Jackrabbit Slim-Steve Forbert 85 Live Rust-Neil Young & Crazy Horse 86 Bebe Le Strange-Heart 87 The Gap Band-The Gap Band 88 I'm The Man-Joe Jackson 89 Go All The Way-Isley Brothers 90 Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway-Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack 91 Make Your Move-Captain & Tennille 92 Warm Thoughts-Smokey Robinson 93 Minute By Minute-Doobie Brothers 94 Bad Girls-Donna Summer 95 Diana-Diana Ross 96 The Glow of Love-Change 97 Identify Yourself-O'Jays 98 First Under The Wire-Little River Band 99 I'll Always Love You-Anne Murray 100 Cameosis-Cameo *as published in the December 27th,1980 issue of Billboard Magazine.