| LW | TW | peaks: | rock | pop |
| 1 | 1 | New Year's Day | 1 |  |
| U2 |
| 7 | 2 | Gimme All Your Lovin | 1 | 21 | |
| ZZ Top |
| 6 | 3 | Cuts Like A Knife | 2 | 9 | |
| Bryan Adams |
| 3 | 4 | Your Possible Pasts | 3 | |
| Pink Floyd |
| 12 | 5 | White Wedding | 1 | 21 | |
| Billy Idol |
| 2 | 6 | Jeopardy | 1 | 2 | |
| Greg Kihn Band |
| 10 | 7 | Overkill | 6 | 2 | |
| Men At Work |
| 5 | 8 | She Blinded Me With Science | 5 | 2 | |
| Thomas Dolby |
| 13 | 9 | The One Thing | 1 | 30 | |
| INXS |
| 4 | 10 | Photograph | 1 | ▲ | |
| Def Leppard |
| 15 | 11 | Why Me? | 7 | |
| Planet P |
| - | 12 | She's A Beauty | 1 | 9 | |
| The Tubes |
| 11 | 13 | Not Now John | 8 | |
| Pink Floyd |
| 17 | 14 | Der Kommissar (The Commissioner) | 11 | 3 | |
| After The Fire |
| - | 15 | I Melt With You | 13 | 10 | |
| Modern English |
| 14 | 16 | The Final Cut | 13 | |
| Pink Floyd |
| 18 | 17 | Let Me Go | 17 | |
| Heaven 17 |
| 8 | 18 | Red Skies | 3 | |
| The Fixx |
| - | 19 | Annie Get Your Gun | 18 | |
| Squeeze |
| 19 | 20 | Girls On Film | 19 | |
| Duran Duran |
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