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This is a summary of 1982 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year.
"The Model"/"Computer Love" was the first single by a German artist to top the chart since its establishment 29 years earlier. By the end of 1982, there had been two further number ones by German artists, "Seven Tears" and "A Little Peace".
Issue Date | Song | Artist(s) |
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2 January | The Visitors | ABBA |
9 January | Dare | The Human League |
16 January | ||
23 January | ||
30 January | Love Songs | Barbra Streisand |
6 February | ||
13 February | ||
20 February | ||
27 February | ||
6 March | ||
13 March | ||
20 March | The Gift | The Jam |
27 March | Love Songs | Barbra Streisand |
3 April | ||
10 April | The Number of the Beast | Iron Maiden |
17 April | ||
24 April | 1+9+8+2 | Status Quo |
1 May | Barry Live In Britain | Barry Manilow |
8 May | Tug of War | Paul McCartney |
15 May | ||
22 May | Complete Madness | Madness |
29 May | ||
5 June | Avalon | Roxy Music |
12 June | Complete Madness | Madness |
19 June | Avalon | Roxy Music |
26 June | ||
3 July | The Lexicon of Love | ABC |
10 July | ||
17 July | ||
24 July | Fame | Soundtrack |
31 July | ||
7 August | The Kids from "Fame" | The Kids from "Fame" |
14 August | ||
21 August | ||
28 August | ||
4 September | ||
11 September | ||
18 September | ||
25 September | ||
2 October | Love Over Gold | Dire Straits |
9 October | ||
16 October | ||
23 October | ||
30 October | The Kids from "Fame" | The Kids from "Fame" |
6 November | ||
13 November | ||
20 November | ||
27 November | The Singles: The First Ten Years | ABBA |
4 December | The John Lennon Collection | John Lennon |
11 December | ||
18 December | ||
25 December |
The tables below include sales between 1 January and 31 December 1982: the year-end charts reproduced in the issue of Music Week dated 26 December 1982 and played on Radio 1 on 2 January 1983 only include sales figures up until 11 December 1982.
Notes:
The 1982 BRIT Awards winners were:
Mark-Anthony Turnage is an English composer of contemporary classical music.
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Elena Olegovna Firsova is a Russian composer living in the UK.
This is a summary of 1983 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year.
Dan Welcher is an American composer, conductor, and music educator.
Raymond Wilding-White ; was an American composer of contemporary classical music and electronic music, and a photographer/digital artist.
Margaret Brouwer is an American composer and composition teacher. She founded the Blue Streak Ensemble chamber music group.
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This is a summary of 1981 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year.
David Horne is a Scottish composer, pianist, and teacher.
William Jay Sydeman was a prolific American composer. He was born in New York. He studied at Duke University, and received a B.S. degree in 1955 from the Mannes School of Music, having studied with Felix Salzer, Roy Travis, and Roger Sessions. He received his master's in music from the Hartt School in 1958, studying under Arnold Franchetti and Goffredo Petrassi. From 1959 to 1970 he joined the composition faculty at his alma mater Mannes School of Music.
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Gary Alan Kulesha is a Canadian composer, pianist, conductor, and educator. Since 1995, he has been Composer Advisor to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. He has been Composer-in-Residence with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony (1988–1992) and the Canadian Opera Company (1993–1995). He was awarded the National Arts Centre Orchestra Composer Award in 2002.
Jiří Teml is a Czech composer and radio producer.
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