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The most successful act on the AC chart in 1983 was Lionel Richie, who had three number ones and spent a total of fourteen weeks in the top spot. He was the only act to have more than one chart-topper in 1983 and also claimed the longest-running number one of the year, spending six consecutive weeks atop the chart with "You Are". No other act ...
Pop Annual, 1955–2011 (8th ed.). Record Research Inc. ISBN 0-89820-194-2. Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Eighties (ISBN 0-89820-079-2) Additional information obtained can be verified within Billboard's online archive services and print editions of the magazine.
Every Breath You Take" by The Police (singer Sting pictured) was the number one song of 1983. Michael Jackson (pictured) had five songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1983. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1983. [1] [2]
The 1980s were a wild time for music. From rock 'n' roll hair bands to the debut of Whitney Houston and the launch of a little-known network named MTV, there was no shortage of history-making ...
UK 1 – May 1983, US BB 1 – July 1983, US BB 1 of 1983, Canada 1 – May 1983, Republic of Ireland 1 – June 1983, US CashBox 2 of 1983, Sweden (alt) 2 – June 1983, Norway 2 – June 1983, KROQ 3 of 1983, Poland 5 – June 1983, South Africa 5 of 1983, Netherlands 6 – May 1983, Switzerland 6 – July 1983, Austria 8 – August 1983 ...
[47] Starting around 1983, the US music industry preferred the more generic term "new music", which it used to categorize new movements like new pop and New Romanticism. [48] In 1983, music journalist Parke Puterbaugh wrote that new music "does not so much describe a single style as it draws a line in time, distinguishing what came before from ...
In 1983, the name of the chart was Top LPs & Tape. Before Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991, Billboard estimated sales from a representative sampling of record stores nationwide, using telephone, fax or messenger service. [1] Data were based on rankings made by the record stores of the best-selling records, not on actual sales figures.
The April 1983 U.S. Embassy bombing in Beirut kills 63 people. The Disney Channel is initiated on American cable TV. April 25 – Manchester, Maine schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov , after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war .