1980's Top 20 charts

January 1981

UK	(US)	Song title	Artist
1		Imagine	John Lennon
2		Antmusic	Adam & the Ants
3		Happy Xmas (War is over)	John & Yoko & the Plastic Ono Band
4		(Just like) Starting over	John Lennon
5		Stop the cavalry	Jona Lewis
6		Do nothing / Maggie's farm	Specials
7		Flash	Queen
8		De do do do, de da da da	Police
9		Woman	John Lennon
10		Too nice to talk to	Beat
11		There's no one quite like grandma	St.Winifred's School Choir
12		In the air tonight	Phil Collins
13		I am the beat	Look
14		Rabbit	Chas & Dave
15		Embarrasment	Madness
16		Super trouper	Abba
17		Don't stop the music	Yarbrough & Peoples
18		Lies / Don't drive my car	Status Quo
19		Runaway boys	Stray Cats
20		I ain't gonna stand for it	Stevie Wonder

 

February 1981

UK	(US)	Song title	Artist
1		Woman	John Lennon
2		Vienna	Ultravox
3		In the air tonight	Phil Collins
4		I surrender	Rainbow
5		Shaddup you face	Joe Dolce Music Thatre
6		Return of the Los Palmas 7	Madness
7		Oldest swinger in town	Fred Wedlock
8		Romeo and Juliet	Dire Straits
9		Rapture	Blondie
10		Imagine	John Lennon
11		Fade to grey	Visage
12		Antmusic	Adam & the Ants
13		Rock this town	Stray Cats
14		Don't stop the music	Yarbrough & Peoples
15		We'll bring the house down	Slade
16		St.Valentine's day massacre E.P.	Motorhead & Girlschool
17		(Do) The Hucklebuck	Coast To Coast
18		Young parisians	Adam & the Ants
19		Message of love	Pretenders
20		Jeaous guy	Roxy Music

 

March 1981

UK	(US)	Song title	Artist
1		Jeaous guy	Roxy Music
2		King of the wild frontier	Adam & the Ants
3		(Do) The Hucklebuck	Coast To Coast
4		Vienna	Ultravox
5		Kids in America	Kim Wilde
6		This ole house	Shakin' Stevens
7		Shaddup you face	Joe Dolce Music Thatre
8		Four from Toyah E.P.	Toyah
9		Reward	Teardrop Explodes
10		Southern Freeez	Freeez
11		St.Valentine's day massacre E.P.	Motorhead & Girlschool
12		Something 'bout you baby I like	Status Quo
13		You better you bet	Who
14		I surrender	Rainbow
15		Once in a lifetime	Talking Heads
16		Lately	Stevie Wonder
17		Star	Kiki Dee
18		Return of the Los Palmas 7	Madness
19		(Somobody) Help me out	Beggar & Co
20		I missed again	Phil Collins

 

April 1981

UK	(US)	Song title	Artist
1		This ole house	Shakin' Stevens
2		Making your mind up	Bucks Fizz
3		Lately	Stevie Wonder
4		Einstein a go-go	Landscape
5		Kids in America	Kim Wilde
6		Intution	Linx
7		It's a love thing	Whispers
8		Chi Mai (Theme from "The life and times of David Lloyd George")	Ennio Morricone
9		Good thing going (We've got a good thing going)	Sugar Minott
10		Capstick comes home / The Sheffield grinder	Tony Capstick
11		Night games	Graham Bonnet
12		Can you feel it	Jacksons
13		D-Days	Hazel O'Connor
14		Four from Toyah E.P.	Toyah
15		Attention to me	Nolans
16		Jeaous guy	Roxy Music
17		(Do) The Hucklebuck	Coast To Coast
18		Just a feeling	Bad Manners
19		Mind of a toy	Visage
20		And the bands played on	Saxon

 

May 1981

UK	(US)	Song title	Artist
1		Stars on 45	Starsound
2		Stand and deliver	Adam & the Ants
3		You drive me crazy	Shakin' Stevens
4		Grey day	Madness
5		Chi Mai (Theme from "The life and times of David Lloyd George")	Ennio Morricone
6		Making your mind up	Bucks Fizz
7		Chequered love	Kim Wilde
8		Ossie's dream (Spurs are on their way to heaven)	Tottenham Hotspur F.A. Cup Final Squad
9		Swords of a thousand men	Ten Pole Tudor
10		Keep on loving you	REO Speedwagon
11		Good thing going (We've got a good thing going)	Sugar Minott
12		Can you feel it	Jacksons
13		Attention to me	Nolans
14		Musclebound / Glow	Spandau Ballet
15		Stray Cats strat	Stray Cats
16		Only crying	Keith Marshall
17		Night games	Graham Bonnet
18		Bette Davis eyes	Kim Carnes
19		I want to be free	Toyah
20		It's a love thing	Whispers

 

June 1981

UK	(US)	Song title	Artist
1		Being with you	Smokey Robinson
2		One day in your life	Michael Jackson
3		More than in love	Kate Robbins & Beyond
4		How 'bout us	Champaign
5		Stand and deliver	Adam & the Ants
6		You drive me crazy	Shakin' Stevens
7		Will you	Hazel O'Connor
8		Going back to my roots	Odyssey
9		Funeral pyre	Jam
10		I want to be free	Toyah
11		Teddy bear	Red Sovine
12		All stood still	Ultravox
13		Ain't no stoppin'	Enigma
14		Stars on 45	Starsound
15		Swords of a thousand men	Ten Pole Tudor
16		Chequered love	Kim Wilde
17		Memory	Elain Paige
18		Chariots of fire - titles	Vangelis
19		Bette Davis eyes	Kim Carnes
20		Ghost town	Specials

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