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This is a summary of 1983 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year.
Chart date (week ending) | Song | Artist(s) | Weeks |
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1 January | "Save Your Love" | Renée and Renato | 2 |
8 January | |||
15 January | "You Can't Hurry Love" | Phil Collins | 2 |
22 January | |||
29 January | "Down Under" | Men at Work | 3 |
5 February | |||
12 February | |||
19 February | "Too Shy" | Kajagoogoo | 2 |
26 February | |||
5 March | "Billie Jean" | Michael Jackson | 1 |
12 March | "Total Eclipse of the Heart" | Bonnie Tyler | 2 |
19 March | |||
26 March | "Is There Something I Should Know?" | Duran Duran | 2 |
2 April | |||
9 April | "Let's Dance" | David Bowie | 3 |
16 April | |||
23 April | |||
30 April | "True" | Spandau Ballet | 4 |
7 May | |||
14 May | |||
21 May | |||
28 May | "Candy Girl" | New Edition | 1 |
4 June | "Every Breath You Take" | The Police | 4 |
11 June | |||
18 June | |||
25 June | |||
2 July | "Baby Jane" | Rod Stewart | 3 |
9 July | |||
16 July | |||
23 July | "Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home)" | Paul Young | 3 |
30 July | |||
6 August | |||
13 August | "Give It Up" | KC and the Sunshine Band | 3 |
20 August | |||
27 August | |||
3 September | "Red Red Wine" | UB40 | 3 |
10 September | |||
17 September | |||
24 September | "Karma Chameleon" | Culture Club | 6 |
1 October | |||
8 October | |||
15 October | |||
22 October | |||
29 October | |||
5 November | "Uptown Girl" | Billy Joel | 5 |
12 November | |||
19 November | |||
26 November | |||
3 December | |||
10 December | "Only You" | The Flying Pickets | 4 |
17 December | |||
24 December | |||
31 December |
Chart date (week ending) | Album | Artist(s) | Weeks |
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1 January | The John Lennon Collection | John Lennon | 2 |
8 January | |||
15 January | Raiders of the Pop Charts | Various Artists | 2 |
22 January | |||
29 January | Business as Usual | Men at Work | 5 |
5 February | |||
12 February | |||
19 February | |||
26 February | |||
5 March | Thriller | Michael Jackson | 1 |
12 March | War | U2 | 1 |
19 March | Thriller | Michael Jackson | 1 |
26 March | The Hurting | Tears for Fears | 1 |
2 April | The Final Cut | Pink Floyd | 2 |
9 April | |||
16 April | Faster Than the Speed of Night | Bonnie Tyler | 1 |
23 April | Let's Dance | David Bowie | 3 |
30 April | |||
7 May | |||
14 May | True | Spandau Ballet | 1 |
21 May | Thriller | Michael Jackson | 5 |
28 May | |||
4 June | |||
11 June | |||
18 June | |||
25 June | Synchronicity | The Police | 2 |
2 July | |||
9 July | Fantastic | Wham! | 2 |
16 July | |||
23 July | You and Me Both | Yazoo | 2 |
30 July | |||
6 August | The Very Best of the Beach Boys | The Beach Boys | 2 |
13 August | |||
20 August | 18 Greatest Hits | Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5 | 3 |
27 August | |||
3 September | |||
10 September | The Very Best of the Beach Boys | The Beach Boys | 1 |
17 September | No Parlez | Paul Young | 1 |
24 September | Labour of Love | UB40 | 1 |
1 October | No Parlez | Paul Young | 2 |
8 October | |||
15 October | Genesis | Genesis | 1 |
22 October | Colour by Numbers | Culture Club | 3 |
29 October | |||
5 November | |||
12 November | Can't Slow Down | Lionel Richie | 1 |
19 November | Colour by Numbers | Culture Club | 2 |
26 November | |||
3 December | Seven and the Ragged Tiger | Duran Duran | 1 |
10 December | No Parlez | Paul Young | 1 |
17 December | Now 1 | Various Artists | 3 |
24 December | |||
31 December |
Note: The year-end charts published in Music Week on 7 January 1984 only covered the period 4 January to 17 December 1983 – the BPI Year Book 1984 included the complete charts to the end of 1983.
Notes:
The 1983 Brit Awards winners were:
Mark-Anthony Turnage is an English composer of contemporary classical music.
George Rochberg was an American composer of contemporary classical music. Long a serial composer, Rochberg abandoned the practice following the death of his teenage son in 1964; he claimed this compositional technique had proved inadequate to express his grief and had found it empty of expressive intent. By the 1970s, Rochberg's use of tonal passages in his music had provoked controversy among critics and fellow composers. A professor at the University of Pennsylvania until 1983, Rochberg also served as chairman of its music department until 1968. He became the first Annenberg Professor of the Humanities in 1978.
John Harris Harbison is an American composer and academic.
Richard Danielpour is an American composer and academic, currently affiliated with the Curtis Institute of Music and the University of California, Los Angeles.
David Matthews is an English composer of mainly orchestral, chamber, vocal and piano works.
This is a summary of 1982 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year.
Bernard Rands is a British-American contemporary classical composer. He studied music and English literature at the University of Wales, Bangor, and composition with Pierre Boulez and Bruno Maderna in Darmstadt, Germany, and with Luigi Dallapiccola and Luciano Berio in Milan, Italy. He held residencies at Princeton University, the University of Illinois, and the University of York before emigrating to the United States in 1975; he became a U.S. citizen in 1983. In 1984, Rands's Canti del Sole, premiered by Paul Sperry, Zubin Mehta, and the New York Philharmonic, won the Pulitzer Prize for Music. He has since taught at the University of California, San Diego, the Juilliard School, Yale University, and Boston University. From 1988 to 2005 he taught at Harvard University, where he is Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music Emeritus.
Tristan Keuris was a Dutch composer.
Dan Welcher is an American composer, conductor, and music educator.
Martin Boykan was an American composer known for his chamber music as well as music for larger ensembles.
This is a summary of 1981 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year.
Stefans Grové was a South African composer. Before his death the following assessment was made of him: "He is regarded by many as Africa's greatest living composer, possesses one of the most distinctive compositional voices of our time".
David Frederick Stock was an American composer and conductor.
Eduard Hayrapetyan is an Armenian composer of contemporary classical music and educator.
Ivan Fedele is an Italian composer. He studied at the Milan Conservatory.