Weekly Rock Top 20 for October 23, 1982 |
| LW | TW | peaks: | rock | pop |
| 1 | 1 | Shock The Monkey | ▲ | 26 |
| Peter Gabriel |
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| 6 | 2 | Steppin' Out | ▲ | 2 |
| Joe Jackson |
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| 3 | 3 | Pressure | 1 | 9 |
| Billy Joel |
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| 9 | 4 | Eminence Front | 3 |
| The Who |
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| 7 | 5 | Subdivisions | 2 |
| Rush |
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| 5 | 6 | Dirty Laundry | 1 | 2 |
| Don Henley |
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| 4 | 7 | Rock The Casbah | 3 | 6 |
| The Clash |
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| 17 | 8 | Shadows Of The Night | 1 | 10 |
| Pat Benatar |
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| 2 | 9 | New World Man | 1 | 26 |
| Rush |
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| 15 | 10 | Nowhere To Run | ▲ |
| Santana |
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| 12 | 11 | Valerie | 4 |
| Steve Winwood |
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| 11 | 12 | Atlantic City | 11 |
| Bruce Springsteen |
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| 18 | 13 | Learn How To Live | ▲ |
| Billy Squier |
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| - | 14 | On The Loose | 3 | 23 |
| Saga |
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| - | 15 | Industrial Disease | 5 |
| Dire Straits |
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| 13 | 16 | You Don't Want Me Anymore | 13 | 14 |
| Steel Breeze |
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| - | 17 | Open All Night | 3 |
| Bruce Springsteen |
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| 19 | 18 | Rock This Town | 2 | 4 |
| The Stray Cats |
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| - | 19 | It's Raining Again | 6 | 2 |
| Supertramp |
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| - | 20 | Mexican Radio | 18 | 29 |
| Wall Of Voodoo |
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