| LW | TW | peaks: | rock | pop |
| 2 | 1 | Athena | 1 | 23 |  |
| The Who |
| 4 | 2 | New World Man | 1 | 26 | |
| Rush |
| 1 | 3 | Jack & Diane | 1 | 1 | |
| John Cougar |
| 5 | 4 | Dirty Laundry | 1 | 2 | |
| Don Henley |
| 3 | 5 | Electricland | 3 | |
| Bad Company |
| 9 | 6 | Bad To The Bone | 6 | |
| George Thorogood And The Destroyers |
| 12 | 7 | Eye In The Sky | 7 | 2 | |
| The Alan Parsons Project |
| 7 | 8 | Don't Fight It | 5 | 6 | |
| Kenny Loggins With Steve Perry |
| 14 | 9 | Hold On | 9 | ▲ | |
| Santana |
| 13 | 10 | You Keep Runnin' Away | 6 | 20 | |
| 38 Special |
| 16 | 11 | Rock The Casbah | 3 | 6 | |
| The Clash |
| 10 | 12 | Shakin' | 10 | |
| Eddie Money |
| - | 13 | Eminence Front | 3 | |
| The Who |
| 18 | 14 | Steppin' Out | 2 | 2 | |
| Joe Jackson |
| - | 15 | Valerie | 10 | 4 | |
| Steve Winwood |
| 19 | 16 | Nowhere To Run | 10 | |
| Santana |
| 8 | 17 | Somebody's Baby | 1 | 2 | |
| Jackson Browne |
| - | 18 | Pressure | 1 | 9 | |
| Billy Joel |
| - | 19 | Racetrack | 19 | |
| Bad Company |
| 20 | 20 | Who Can It Be Now? | 17 | 1 | |
| Men At Work |
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