In Retrospect

If I had the power, perhaps in an alternate timeline, the Top 40 would have been quite different...

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Number
1 Up by 1

Love Is A Stranger
Eurythmics
From the album: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
8
Number
2 Down by 1

The Safety Dance
Men Without Hats
From the album: Rhythm of Youth
Peak
1 (for 3 weeks)
Weeks
17
Number
3

Holiday Road
Lindsey Buckingham
From the album: National Lampoon's Vacation (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Peak
3
Weeks
14
Number
4 Up by 1

Pale Shelter (You Don't Give Me Love)
Tears for Fears
From the album: The Hurting
Peak
1 (for 2 weeks)
Weeks
22
Number
5 Up by 2

Everything Counts
Depeche Mode
From the album: Construction Time Again
Peak
5
Weeks
11
Number
6

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
Eurythmics
From the album: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Peak
1 (for 2 weeks)
Weeks
24
Number
7 Up by 2

Burning Down The House
Talking Heads
From the album: Speaking In Tongues
Peak
7
Weeks
9
Number
8 Down by 4

Europa and the Pirate Twins
Thomas Dolby
From the album: The Golden Age of Wireless
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
20
Number
9 Down by 1

Nobody's Diary
Yazoo
From the album: You And Me Both
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
23
Number
10

Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)
A Flock of Seagulls
From the album: Listen
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
22
Number
11

Saved By Zero
The Fixx
From the album: Reach the Beach
Peak
5
Weeks
23
Number
12

Radio Free Europe
R.E.M.
Peak
12
Weeks
14
Number
13

We Are Detective
Thompson Twins
From the album: Quick Step & Side Kick
Peak
10
Weeks
17
Number
14

Radio Silence
Thomas Dolby
From the album: The Golden Age of Wireless
Peak
14
Weeks
9
Number
15

Promises, Promises
Naked Eyes
From the album: Naked Eyes
Peak
15
Weeks
13
Number
16

(It's Not Me) Talking
A Flock of Seagulls
From the album: Listen
Peak
16
Weeks
9
Number
17 Up by 1

All of My Heart
ABC
From the album: The Lexicon of Love
Peak
17
Weeks
5
Number
18 Up by 1

The Romance of the Telescope
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
From the album: Dazzle Ships
Peak
18
Weeks
10
Number
19 Up by 1

I Want You Back
Mick Fleetwood's Zoo
Peak
19
Weeks
8
Number
20 Up by 2

It Must Be love
Madness
Peak
20
Weeks
8
Number
21 Up by 4

All You Ever Think About Is Sex
Sparks
From the album: In Outer Space
Peak
21
Weeks
7
Number
22 Up by 5

Secret Messages
Electric Light Orchestra
From the album: Secret Messages
Peak
22
Weeks
4
Number
23 Up by 13

Invisible Hands
Kim Carnes
From the album: Café Racers
Peak
23
Weeks
3
Number
24 Down by 3

Legal Tender
The B-52's
From the album: Whammy!
Peak
21
Weeks
10
Number
25 Down by 2

Your Silent Face
New Order
From the album: Power, Corruption & Lies
Peak
15
Weeks
14
Number
26

This is the Day
The The
From the album: Soul Mining
Peak
26
Weeks
7
Number
27 Down by 3

Friend Or Foe
Adam Ant
From the album: Friend Or Foe
Peak
24
Weeks
8
Number
28

Modern Love
David Bowie
From the album: Let's Dance
Peak
28
Weeks
6
Number
29 Up by 1

Delirious
Prince
From the album: 1999
Peak
29
Weeks
5
Number
30 Down by 1

1999
Prince
From the album: 1999
Peak
12
Weeks
21
Number
31 Down by 14

The Metro
Berlin
From the album: Pleasure Victim
Peak
8
Weeks
23
Number
32 Down by 1

King of Pain
The Police
From the album: Synchronicity
Peak
31
Weeks
5
Number
33 Up by 1

Dancing with Myself
Billy Idol
Peak
33
Weeks
8
Number
34 Down by 2

(Keep Feeling) Fascination
The Human League
From the album: Fascination!
Peak
11
Weeks
23
Number
35

Total Eclipse of the Heart
Bonnie Tyler
From the album: Faster Than the Speed of Night
Peak
35
Weeks
7
Number
36 Up by 1

Dear Prudence
Siouxsie & The Banshees
From the album: Hyæna
Peak
36
Weeks
4
Number
37 Up by 2

One Thing Leads to Another
The Fixx
From the album: Reach the Beach
Peak
37
Weeks
4
Number
38

Gone Daddy Gone
Violent Femmes
From the album: Violent Femmes
Peak
38
Weeks
8
Number
39 Up by 3

Masquerade
Berlin
From the album: Pleasure Victim
Peak
39
Weeks
6
Number
40 Up by 7

Mirror Man
The Human League
From the album: Fascination!
Peak
40
Weeks
2
Number
41 Up by 2

Can't Shake Loose
Agnetha Fältskog
From the album: Wrap Your Arms Around Me
Peak
41
Weeks
3
Number
42 Down by 2

The Walls Came Down
The Call
Peak
8
Weeks
26
Number
43 Up by 2

Big Log
Robert Plant
From the album: The Principle of Moments
Peak
43
Weeks
4
Number
44 Down by 11

Is There Something I Should Know?
Duran Duran
Peak
12
Weeks
22
Number
45 Down by 1

Sharp Dressed Man
ZZ Top
From the album: Eliminator
Peak
30
Weeks
12
Number
46

Sitting at the Wheel
The Moody Blues
From the album: The Present
Peak
46
Weeks
2
Number
47 Up by 1

Rockit
Herbie Hancock
From the album: Future Shock
Peak
42
Weeks
4
Number
48 Up by 2

Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)
Sheena Easton
From the album: Best Kept Secret
Peak
48
Weeks
3
Number
49 Debut

Too Low for Zero
Elton John
From the album: 2 ↓ 4 0
Peak
49
Weeks
1
Number
50 Debut

In a Big Country
Big Country
From the album: The Crossing
Peak
50
Weeks
1

Dropouts

Number
41 Dropout

Baby Jane
Rod Stewart
From the album: Body Wishes
Peak
14
Weeks
21
Number
49 Dropout

Blister In The Sun
Violent Femmes
From the album: Violent Femmes
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
26

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Date

October 29, 1983

Songs

50

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2 1 Eurythmics – “Love Is A Stranger” 1(×1) 8

1 2 Men Without Hats – “The Safety Dance” 1(×3) 17

3 3 Lindsey Buckingham – “Holiday Road” 3 14

5 4 Tears for Fears – “Pale Shelter (You Don't Give Me Love)” 1(×2) 22

7 5 Depeche Mode – “Everything Counts” 5 11

6 6 Eurythmics – “Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)” 1(×2) 24

9 7 Talking Heads – “Burning Down The House” 7 9

4 8 Thomas Dolby – “Europa and the Pirate Twins” 1(×1) 20

8 9 Yazoo – “Nobody's Diary” 1(×1) 23

10 10 A Flock of Seagulls – “Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)” 1(×1) 22

11 11 The Fixx – “Saved By Zero” 5 23

12 12 R.E.M. – “Radio Free Europe” 12 14

13 13 Thompson Twins – “We Are Detective” 10 17

14 14 Thomas Dolby – “Radio Silence” 14 9

15 15 Naked Eyes – “Promises, Promises” 15 13

16 16 A Flock of Seagulls – “(It's Not Me) Talking” 16 9

18 17 ABC – “All of My Heart” 17 5

19 18 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – “The Romance of the Telescope” 18 10

20 19 Mick Fleetwood's Zoo – “I Want You Back” 19 8

22 20 Madness – “It Must Be love ” 20 8

25 21 Sparks – “All You Ever Think About Is Sex” 21 7

27 22 Electric Light Orchestra – “Secret Messages” 22 4

36 23 Kim Carnes – “Invisible Hands” 23 3

21 24 The B-52's – “Legal Tender” 21 10

23 25 New Order – “Your Silent Face” 15 14

26 26 The The – “This is the Day” 26 7

24 27 Adam Ant – “Friend Or Foe” 24 8

28 28 David Bowie – “Modern Love” 28 6

30 29 Prince – “Delirious” 29 5

29 30 Prince – “1999” 12 21

17 31 Berlin – “The Metro” 8 23

31 32 The Police – “King of Pain” 31 5

34 33 Billy Idol – “Dancing with Myself” 33 8

32 34 The Human League – “(Keep Feeling) Fascination” 11 23

35 35 Bonnie Tyler – “Total Eclipse of the Heart” 35 7

37 36 Siouxsie & The Banshees – “Dear Prudence” 36 4

39 37 The Fixx – “One Thing Leads to Another” 37 4

38 38 Violent Femmes – “Gone Daddy Gone” 38 8

42 39 Berlin – “Masquerade” 39 6

47 40 The Human League – “Mirror Man” 40 2

43 41 Agnetha Fältskog – “Can't Shake Loose” 41 3

40 42 The Call – “The Walls Came Down” 8 26

45 43 Robert Plant – “Big Log” 43 4

33 44 Duran Duran – “Is There Something I Should Know?” 12 22

44 45 ZZ Top – “Sharp Dressed Man” 30 12

46 46 The Moody Blues – “Sitting at the Wheel” 46 2

48 47 Herbie Hancock – “Rockit” 42 4

50 48 Sheena Easton – “Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)” 48 3

NE 49 Elton John – “Too Low for Zero” 49 1

NE 50 Big Country – “In a Big Country” 50 1

DROPOUTS:

41 -- Rod Stewart – “Baby Jane” 14 21

49 -- Violent Femmes – “Blister In The Sun” 1(×1) 26

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