Top 1982 Singles Ranked
|
Rank |
Artist |
Title |
|
1 |
Bananarama |
Really Saying Something |
|
2 |
ABC |
The Look of Love |
|
3 |
The The |
Uncertain Smile |
|
4 |
George Clinton |
Atomic Dog |
|
5 |
Pat Benatar |
Shadows of the Night |
|
6 |
INXS |
The One Thing |
|
7 |
Culture Club |
Time (Clock of the Heart) |
|
8 |
Fleetwood Mac |
Gypsy |
|
9 |
Trio |
Da Da Da |
|
10 |
Toni Basil |
Mickey |
|
11 |
Frida |
I Know There's Something Going On |
|
12 |
Bananarama |
Shy Boy |
|
13 |
Marvin Gaye |
Sexual Healing |
|
14 |
Chas Jankel |
Glad to Know You |
|
15 |
Peter Gabriel |
Shock the Monkey |
|
16 |
Yaz |
Situation |
|
17 |
After the Fire |
Der Kommissar |
|
18 |
Shalamar |
A Night to Remember |
|
19 |
Adam Ant |
Desperate But Not Serious |
|
20 |
Falco |
Der Kommissar |
|
21 |
Patrice Rushen |
Forget Me Nots |
|
22 |
The Clash |
Rock the Casbah |
|
23 |
Bananarama |
Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye) |
|
24 |
Kate Bush |
Pull Out the Pin |
|
25 |
John Cougar Mellencamp |
Jack and Diane |
|
26 |
Evelyn "Champagne" King |
Love Come Down |
|
27 |
Culture Club |
Do You Really Want to Hurt Me |
|
28 |
Kate Bush |
Sat in Your Lap |
|
29 |
The Gap Band |
You Dropped a Bomb on Me |
|
30 |
Junior |
Mama Used to Say |
|
31 |
A Flock of Seaguls |
I Ran (So Far Away) |
|
32 |
Adam Ant |
Goody Two Shoes |
|
33 |
Dazz Band |
Let It Whip |
|
34 |
Kate Bush |
There Goes a Tenner |
|
35 |
Kate Bush |
Suspended in Gaffa |
|
36 |
Thomas Dolby |
She Blinded Me With Science |
|
37 |
Bananarama |
Doctor Love |
|
38 |
Billy Squier |
Everybody Wants You |
|
39 |
Indeep |
Last Night A DJ Saved My Life |
|
40 |
Altered Images |
I Could Be Happy |
|
41 |
The Pretenders |
Back on the Chain Gang |
|
42 |
The Go-Go's |
Vacation |
|
43 |
Paul Carrack |
I Need You |
|
44 |
Deniece Williams |
It's Gonna Take a Miracle |
|
45 |
Don Henley |
Dirty Laundry |
|
46 |
Kate Bush |
Leave It Open |
|
47 |
Total Coelo |
I Eat Cannibals (Part One) |
|
48 |
Simple Minds |
Promised You a Miracle |
|
49 |
Missing Persons |
Noticeable Ones |
|
50 |
Evelyn "Champagne" King |
Betcha She Don't Love You |
|
51 |
Stevie Wonder |
That Girl |
|
52 |
The Stray Cats |
Stray Cat Strut |
|
53 |
The Producers |
She Sheila |
|
54 |
Dexy's Midnight Runners |
Come on Eileen |
|
55 |
ABC |
Tears Are Not Enough |
|
56 |
KC and the Sunshine Band |
Give It Up |
|
57 |
Nik Kershaw |
Wouldn't It Be Good |
|
58 |
The Pretenders |
My City Was Gone |
|
59 |
Missing Persons |
Destination Unknown |
|
60 |
Billy Idol |
White Wedding, Pt. 1 |
|
61 |
Duran Duran |
Hungry Like the Wolf |
|
62 |
INXS |
Don't Change |
|
63 |
Prince |
1999 |
|
64 |
Juice Newton |
Love's Been a Little Bit Hard on Me |
|
65 |
Fleetwood Mac |
Hold Me |
|
66 |
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five |
The Message |
|
67 |
Melissa Manchester |
You Should Hear How She Talks About You |
|
68 |
Kate Bush |
Get Out of My House |
|
69 |
ABC |
Poison Arrow |
|
70 |
New Order |
Temptation |
|
71 |
The Psychedelic Furs |
Love My Way |
|
72 |
The Cure |
Let's Go to Bed |
|
73 |
Duran Duran |
Save a Prayer |
|
74 |
Gang of Four |
I Love a Man in Uniform |
|
75 |
Aretha Franklin |
Jump to It |
|
76 |
Ray Parker, Jr. |
The Other Woman |
|
77 |
George Strait |
Amarillo by Morning |
|
78 |
Vanity 6 |
Nasty Girl |
|
79 |
The Gap Band |
Early in the Morning |
|
80 |
Ozone |
Li'l Suzy |
|
81 |
Missing Persons |
Words |
|
82 |
The Jam |
Town Called Malice |
|
83 |
Bananarama |
What a Shambles |
|
84 |
Simple Minds |
Someone, Somewhere in Summertime |
|
85 |
The Church |
I Am a Rock |
|
86 |
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers |
You Got Lucky |
|
87 |
Donna Summer |
Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger) |
|
88 |
The Pointer Sisters |
I'm So Excited |
|
89 |
Romeo Void |
Never Say Never |
|
90 |
The Stranglers |
European Female (In Celebration Of) |
|
91 |
The Fixx |
Stand or Fall |
|
92 |
Bananarama |
Hey Young London |
|
93 |
Missing Persons |
Walking in L.A. |
|
94 |
Rosanne Cash |
Down on Love |
|
95 |
Simple Minds |
Glittering Prize |
|
96 |
Bow Wow Wow |
I Want Candy |
|
97 |
Ricky Skaggs |
Heartbroke |
|
98 |
Bananarama |
Wish You Were Here |
|
99 |
Jackson Browne |
Somebody's Baby |
|
100 |
Adrian Belew |
Big Electric Cat |
|
101 |
Musical Youth |
Pass the Dutchie |
|
102 |
Madonna |
Everybody |
|
103 |
Fun Boy Three with Bananarama |
T'aint What You Do (It's The Way That You Do It) |
|
104 |
APB |
Rainy Day |
|
105 |
Billy Idol |
Hot in the City |
|
106 |
Falco |
Zuviel Hitze |
|
107 |
Kate Bush |
Houdini |
|
108 |
Bananarama |
Cheers Then |
|
109 |
Scandal |
Goodbye to You |
|
110 |
Simple Minds |
New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) |
|
111 |
Bananarama |
Boy Trouble |
|
112 |
Rosanne Cash |
That's How I Got to Memphis |
|
113 |
The Gap Band |
Outstanding |
|
114 |
Duran Duran |
Rio |
|
115 |
Simple Minds |
King Is White and in the Crowd |
|
116 |
38 Special |
Caught Up In You |
|
117 |
Ashford & Simpson |
Street Corner |
|
118 |
Wall of Voodoo |
Mexican Radio |
|
119 |
Falco |
Auf Der Flucht |
|
120 |
Talk Talk |
Talk Talk |
|
121 |
Marshall Crenshaw |
You're My Favorite Waste of Time |
|
122 |
Linda Ronstadt & James Taylor |
I Think It's Gonna Work Out Fine |
|
123 |
Bananarama |
No Feelings |
|
124 |
Donna Summer |
State of Independence |
|
125 |
A Flock of Seaguls |
Space Age Love Song |
|
126 |
Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder |
Ebony and Ivory |
|
127 |
Kate Bush |
Night of the Swallow |
|
128 |
Nicolette Larson |
I Only Want to Be With You |
|
129 |
Modern English |
I Melt With You |
|
130 |
Rosanne Cash |
Ain't No Money |
|
131 |
Bananarama |
Aie-A-Mwana |
|
132 |
Love Tractor |
Neon Lights |
|
133 |
Squeeze |
Black Coffee in Bed |
|
134 |
Karla Bonoff |
Personally |
|
135 |
Crystal Gayle |
Baby What About You |
|
136 |
Captain Sensible |
Wot |
|
137 |
Toto |
Africa |
|
138 |
Dolly Parton |
Hard Candy Christmas |
|
139 |
Roxy Music |
More Than This |
|
140 |
Adam Ant |
Friend or Foe |
|
141 |
Simple Minds |
Hunter and the Hunted |
|
142 |
Joe Jackson |
Steppin' Out |
|
143 |
Stevie Wonder |
Ribbon in the Sky |
|
144 |
Roxy Music |
Avalon |
|
145 |
Linda Ronstadt & Dolly Parton |
My Blue Tears |
|
146 |
X |
Dancing With Tears in My Eyes |
|
147 |
Bananarama |
Young at Heart |
|
148 |
Kate Bush |
All the Love |
|
149 |
Madness |
Our House |
|
150 |
X |
The Hungry Wolf |
|
151 |
Haircut 100 |
Love Plus One |
|
152 |
Trio |
Anna - Letmeinletmeout |
|
153 |
INXS |
To Look at You |
|
154 |
Roxy Music |
Take a Chance With Me |
|
155 |
Kate Bush |
The Dreaming |
|
156 |
Yaz |
Don't Go |
|
157 |
X |
Motel Room in My Bed |
|
158 |
The Motels |
Only the Lonely |
|
159 |
Kas Product |
Pussy X |
|
160 |
Eddy Grant |
Electric Avenue |
|
161 |
Van Halen |
(Oh) Pretty Woman |
|
162 |
John Cougar Mellencamp |
Hurts So Good |
|
163 |
Dionne Warwick |
Heartbreaker |
|
164 |
Taco |
Puttin' on the Ritz |
|
165 |
Earth, Wind & Fire |
Fall in Love With Me |
|
166 |
Scorpions |
No One Like You |
|
167 |
Linda Ronstadt |
Get Closer |
|
168 |
One Way |
Cutie Pie |
|
169 |
The Waitresses |
I Know What Boys Like |
|
170 |
Linda Ronstadt |
Tell Him |
|
171 |
Thomas Dolby |
Europa and the Pirate Twins |
|
172 |
Stevie Wonder |
Do I Do |
|
173 |
Blancmange |
Living on the Ceiling |
|
174 |
Olivia Newton-John |
Heart Attack |
|
175 |
ABC |
All of My Heart |
|
176 |
Patrice Rushen |
Breakout! |
|
177 |
Split Enz |
Six Months in a Leaky Boat |
|
178 |
Rosanne Cash |
I Wonder |
|
179 |
Rick Spriingfield |
Don't Talk to Strangers |
|
180 |
Pat Benatar |
Little Too Late |
|
181 |
Evelyn "Champagne" King |
Get Loose |
|
182 |
Crystal Gayle |
Our Love Is on the Faultline |
|
183 |
Kid Creole & the Coconuts |
Stool Pigeon |
|
184 |
Afrika Bambaataa |
Planet Rock |
|
185 |
Ronnie Hudson |
West Coast Poplock |
|
186 |
Linda Ronstadt |
Lies |
|
187 |
Blondie |
The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game |
|
188 |
Spandau Ballet |
Chant No. 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On) |
|
189 |
Roxy Music |
The Main Thing |
|
190 |
Missing Persons |
Windows |
|
191 |
Van Halen |
Dancing in the Street |
|
192 |
Ronnie Milsap |
Any Day Now |
|
193 |
Cheap Trick |
She's Tight |
|
194 |
Blancmange |
Feel Me |
|
195 |
The Kinks |
Come Dancing |
|
196 |
Thomas Dolby |
Radio Silence |
|
197 |
The Motels |
Take the L |
|
198 |
Crosby, Stills & Nash |
Southern Cross |
|
199 |
Robert Plant |
Burning Down One Side |
|
200 |
Culture Club |
I'll Tumble 4 Ya |
|
201 |
Vanity 6 |
Drive Me Wild |
|
202 |
Roxy Music |
True to Life |
|
203 |
Musical Youth |
Heartbreaker |
|
204 |
Diana Ross |
Muscles |
|
205 |
George Strait |
Fool Hearted Memory |
|
206 |
Missing Persons |
Hello, I Love You |
|
207 |
Rosanne Cash |
It Hasn't Happened Yet |
|
208 |
Dolly Parton |
Single Women |
|
209 |
John Cougar Mellencamp |
Hand to Hold on To |
|
210 |
Rick James |
Dance Wit' Me |
|
211 |
Kool & The Gang |
Let's Go Dancin' (Ooh, La, La, La) |
|
212 |
Simple Minds |
Big Sleep |
|
213 |
Sylvia |
Nobody |
|
214 |
Octobre |
Nastassja |
|
215 |
Def Leppard |
Photograph |
|
216 |
Kenny Rogers |
Love Will Turn You Around |
|
217 |
Linda Ronstadt |
I Knew You When |
|
218 |
Thomas Dolby |
Wind Power |
|
219 |
The English Beat |
Save It for Later |
|
220 |
Toto |
Rosanna |
|
221 |
X |
Under the Big Black Sun |
|
222 |
Talk Talk |
Today |
|
223 |
Joe Jackson |
Breaking Us in Two |
|
224 |
Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney |
The Girl Is Mine |
|
225 |
Spandau Ballet |
Instinction |
|
226 |
Translator |
Everywhere That I'm Not |
|
227 |
Simple Minds |
Somebody Up There Likes You |
|
228 |
Eddie Money |
Think I'm in Love |
|
229 |
Josie Cotton |
Johnny, Are You Queer? |
|
230 |
Charlene |
I've Never Been to Me |
|
231 |
X |
Riding With Mary |
