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The following lists the top 25 (end of year) charting singles on the Australian Singles Charts, for the year of 1983. These were the best charting singles in Australia for 1983. The source for this year is the Kent Music Report. [1]
# | Title | Artist | Highest pos. reached | weeks at No. 1 |
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1. | "Australiana" | Austen Tayshus | 1 | 8 |
2. | "Flashdance... What a Feeling" | Irene Cara | 1 | 7 |
3. | "Gloria" | Laura Branigan | 1 | 7 |
4. | "Billie Jean" | Michael Jackson | 1 | 5 |
5. | "Up Where We Belong" | Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes | 1 | 2 |
6. | "Total Eclipse of the Heart" | Bonnie Tyler | 1 | 6 |
7. | "Save Your Love" | Renee and Renato | 3 | |
8. | "Karma Chameleon" | Culture Club | 1 | 5 |
9. | "Beat It" | Michael Jackson | 2 | |
10. | "Every Breath You Take" | The Police | 2 | |
11. | "Bop Girl" | Pat Wilson | 2 | |
12. | "Reckless" | Australian Crawl | 1 | 1 |
13. | "I Was Only 19" | Redgum | 1 | 2 |
14. | "Twisting by the Pool" | Dire Straits | 2 | |
15. | "Rain" | Dragon | 2 | |
16. | "1999" | Prince | 2 | |
17. | "Give it Up" | KC and the Sunshine Band | 3 | |
18. | "Heartbreaker" | Dionne Warwick | 2 | |
19. | "I'm Still Standing" | Elton John | 3 | |
20. | "Electric Avenue" | Eddy Grant | 2 | |
21. | "You Can't Hurry Love" | Phil Collins | 2 | |
22. | "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" | Culture Club | 1 | 6 (pkd #1 82 & 83) |
23. | "Safety Dance" | Men Without Hats | 5 | |
24. | "Let's Dance" | David Bowie | 2 | |
25. | "Africa" | Toto | 5 |
These charts are calculated by David Kent of the Kent Music Report.
The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling songs and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA became the official Australian music chart in June 1988, succeeding the Kent Music Report, which had been Australia's national music sales charts since 1974.
The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music historian David Kent from May 1974 through to January 1999. The chart was re-branded the Australian Music Report (AMR) in July 1987. From June 1988, the Australian Recording Industry Association, which had been using the top 50 portion of the report under licence since mid-1983, chose to produce their own listing as the ARIA Charts.
David Cyril Kent is an Australian music historian and pop culture writer. Kent produced the Kent Music Report, compiling the national music chart from May 1974 to 1996; it was known as the Australian Music Report from 1987. The music reports were a weekly listing of the National Top 100 chart positions of singles and albums.