List of top 25 singles for 1982 in Australia

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The following lists the top 25 (end of year) charting singles on the Australian Singles Charts, for the year of 1982. These were the best charting singles in Australia for 1982. The source for this year is the "Kent Music Report". [1]

#TitleArtistHighest pos. reachedweeks at No. 1
1."Eye of the Tiger" Survivor 16
2."What About Me" Moving Pictures 16
3."Tainted Love" Soft Cell 13
4."Centerfold" The J. Geils Band 11
5."Key Largo" Bertie Higgins 2
6."Mickey" Toni Basil 12
7."I Love Rock 'n' Roll" Joan Jett and the Blackhearts 15
8."Trouble" Lindsey Buckingham 13
9."Believe it or Not" Joey Scarbury 2
10."Hard to Say I'm Sorry" Chicago 4
11."I've Never Been to Me" Charlene 16
12."Come On Eileen" Dexys Midnight Runners 15
13."Abracadabra" Steve Miller Band 12
14."If You Want My Love" Cheap Trick 2
15."I Ran (So Far Away)" A Flock of Seagulls 12
16."Hurts So Good" John Cougar 5
17."Our Lips Are Sealed" The Go-Go's 2
18."Six Months in a Leaky Boat" Split Enz 2
19."Shy Boy" Bananarama 2
20."Ebony and Ivory" Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder 2
21."Waiting for a Girl Like You" Foreigner 3
22."The Other Woman" Ray Parker Jr. 11
23."Young Turks" Rod Stewart 3
24."Down Under" Men at Work 16
25."You Should Hear How She Talks About You" Melissa Manchester 4

These charts are calculated by David Kent of the Kent Music Report.

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References

  1. "National Top 100 Singles for 1982". Kent Music Report. 3 January 1983. Retrieved 2 January 2023 via Imgur.