Pop and Rock Chart Archive
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Weekly Rock Top 20 for April 12, 1980

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6 1   Brass In Pocket (I'm Special) 7  
  The Pretenders
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3 2   Love Stinks 1    
  The J. Geils Band
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4 3   Young Lust    
  Pink Floyd
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1 4   You May Be Right 1 1  
  Billy Joel
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5 5   Goodbye Blue Sky 2    
  Pink Floyd
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2 6   Ride Like The Wind 1 2  
  Christopher Cross
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7 7   Train In Vain (Stand By Me) 13  
  The Clash
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12 8   Where Were You    
  Journey
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18 9   Against The Wind 1 2  
  Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
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8 10   Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2 1 1  
  Pink Floyd
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10 11   Breakdown Dead Ahead 4 4  
  Boz Scaggs
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9 12   Her Strut 2    
  Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
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14 13   Comfortably Numb 1    
  Pink Floyd
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- 14   And The Cradle Will Rock... 1    
  Van Halen
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15 15   Freewill 2    
  Rush
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11 16   Fire Lake 2 1  
  Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
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- 17   London Calling 6    
  The Clash
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- 18   Stop Your Sobbing 9    
  The Pretenders
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13 19   Sometimes A Fantasy 2 16  
  Billy Joel
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16 20   Even The Losers 14    
  Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
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The Pretenders is on top over this week's song chart with Brass In Pocket (I'm Special). Love Stinks by The J. Geils Band finds the runner-up spot. Young Lust by Pink Floyd is at number three on the chart.


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