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

Love Is A Stranger
Eurythmics
From the album: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Peak
1 (for 2 weeks)
Weeks
9
Number
2

The Safety Dance
Men Without Hats
From the album: Rhythm of Youth
Peak
1 (for 3 weeks)
Weeks
18
Number
3

Holiday Road
Lindsey Buckingham
From the album: National Lampoon's Vacation (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Peak
3
Weeks
15
Number
4 Up by 1

Everything Counts
Depeche Mode
From the album: Construction Time Again
Peak
4
Weeks
12
Number
5 Down by 1

Pale Shelter (You Don't Give Me Love)
Tears for Fears
From the album: The Hurting
Peak
1 (for 2 weeks)
Weeks
23
Number
6 Up by 1

Burning Down The House
Talking Heads
From the album: Speaking In Tongues
Peak
6
Weeks
10
Number
7 Down by 1

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
Eurythmics
From the album: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Peak
1 (for 2 weeks)
Weeks
25
Number
8 Up by 4

Radio Free Europe
R.E.M.
Peak
8
Weeks
15
Number
9 Down by 1

Europa and the Pirate Twins
Thomas Dolby
From the album: The Golden Age of Wireless
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
21
Number
10 Down by 1

Nobody's Diary
Yazoo
From the album: You And Me Both
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
24
Number
11 Down by 1

Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)
A Flock of Seagulls
From the album: Listen
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
23
Number
12 Up by 12

Invisible Hands
Kim Carnes
From the album: Café Racers
Peak
12
Weeks
4
Number
13 Down by 2

Saved By Zero
The Fixx
From the album: Reach the Beach
Peak
5
Weeks
24
Number
14 Down by 1

We Are Detective
Thompson Twins
From the album: Quick Step & Side Kick
Peak
10
Weeks
18
Number
15 Down by 1

Radio Silence
Thomas Dolby
From the album: The Golden Age of Wireless
Peak
14
Weeks
10
Number
16 Up by 1

All of My Heart
ABC
From the album: The Lexicon of Love
Peak
16
Weeks
6
Number
17 Up by 2

I Want You Back
Mick Fleetwood's Zoo
Peak
17
Weeks
9
Number
18

The Romance of the Telescope
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
From the album: Dazzle Ships
Peak
18
Weeks
11
Number
19 Up by 1

It Must Be love
Madness
Peak
19
Weeks
9
Number
20 Up by 2

All You Ever Think About Is Sex
Sparks
From the album: In Outer Space
Peak
20
Weeks
8
Number
21 Up by 2

Secret Messages
Electric Light Orchestra
From the album: Secret Messages
Peak
21
Weeks
5
Number
22 Down by 6

(It's Not Me) Talking
A Flock of Seagulls
From the album: Listen
Peak
16
Weeks
10
Number
23 Down by 2

Legal Tender
The B-52's
From the album: Whammy!
Peak
21
Weeks
11
Number
24 Up by 2

This is the Day
The The
From the album: Soul Mining
Peak
24
Weeks
8
Number
25

Sharp Dressed Man
ZZ Top
From the album: Eliminator
Peak
25
Weeks
13
Number
26 Down by 11

Promises, Promises
Naked Eyes
From the album: Naked Eyes
Peak
15
Weeks
14
Number
27 Up by 1

Modern Love
David Bowie
From the album: Let's Dance
Peak
27
Weeks
7
Number
28 Up by 1

Delirious
Prince
From the album: 1999
Peak
28
Weeks
6
Number
29 Down by 2

Your Silent Face
New Order
From the album: Power, Corruption & Lies
Peak
15
Weeks
15
Number
30

Friend Or Foe
Adam Ant
From the album: Friend Or Foe
Peak
24
Weeks
9
Number
31 Up by 2

Dancing with Myself
Billy Idol
Peak
31
Weeks
9
Number
32 Up by 3

Total Eclipse of the Heart
Bonnie Tyler
From the album: Faster Than the Speed of Night
Peak
32
Weeks
8
Number
33 Up by 7

Mirror Man
The Human League
From the album: Fascination!
Peak
33
Weeks
3
Number
34 Up by 2

Dear Prudence
Siouxsie & The Banshees
From the album: Hyæna
Peak
34
Weeks
5
Number
35 Up by 2

One Thing Leads to Another
The Fixx
From the album: Reach the Beach
Peak
35
Weeks
5
Number
36 Down by 2

1999
Prince
From the album: 1999
Peak
12
Weeks
22
Number
37 Down by 6

The Metro
Berlin
From the album: Pleasure Victim
Peak
8
Weeks
24
Number
38

Gone Daddy Gone
Violent Femmes
From the album: Violent Femmes
Peak
38
Weeks
9
Number
39

Masquerade
Berlin
From the album: Pleasure Victim
Peak
39
Weeks
7
Number
40 Up by 1

Can't Shake Loose
Agnetha Fältskog
From the album: Wrap Your Arms Around Me
Peak
40
Weeks
4
Number
41 Up by 9

In a Big Country
Big Country
From the album: The Crossing
Peak
41
Weeks
2
Number
42 Up by 1

Big Log
Robert Plant
From the album: The Principle of Moments
Peak
42
Weeks
5
Number
43 Debut

The Lovecats
The Cure
Peak
43
Weeks
1
Number
44 Down by 12

King of Pain
The Police
From the album: Synchronicity
Peak
32
Weeks
6
Number
45 Up by 1

Sitting at the Wheel
The Moody Blues
From the album: The Present
Peak
45
Weeks
3
Number
46 Up by 3

Quicksand
A Flock of Seagulls
Peak
46
Weeks
3
Number
47

Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)
Sheena Easton
From the album: Best Kept Secret
Peak
47
Weeks
4
Number
48

Too Low for Zero
Elton John
From the album: 2 ↓ 4 0
Peak
48
Weeks
2
Number
49 Debut

Major Tom (Coming Home)
Peter Schilling
From the album: Error in the System
Peak
49
Weeks
1
Number
50 Debut

Sunday Bloody Sunday
U2
From the album: War
Peak
50
Weeks
1
Number
51 Up by 1

Every Word Means No
Let's Active
Peak
51
Weeks
2
Number
52 Down by 10

(Keep Feeling) Fascination
The Human League
From the album: Fascination!
Peak
11
Weeks
24

Dropouts

Number
44 Dropout

Is There Something I Should Know?
Duran Duran
From the album: Duran Duran
Peak
12
Weeks
22
Number
45 Dropout

The Walls Came Down
The Call
Peak
8
Weeks
26
Number
51 Dropout

Rockit
Herbie Hancock
From the album: Future Shock
Peak
42
Weeks
4

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Date

November 5, 1983

Songs

52

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1 1 Eurythmics – “Love Is A Stranger” 1(×2) 9

2 2 Men Without Hats – “The Safety Dance” 1(×3) 18

3 3 Lindsey Buckingham – “Holiday Road” 3 15

5 4 Depeche Mode – “Everything Counts” 4 12

4 5 Tears for Fears – “Pale Shelter (You Don't Give Me Love)” 1(×2) 23

7 6 Talking Heads – “Burning Down The House” 6 10

6 7 Eurythmics – “Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)” 1(×2) 25

12 8 R.E.M. – “Radio Free Europe” 8 15

8 9 Thomas Dolby – “Europa and the Pirate Twins” 1(×1) 21

9 10 Yazoo – “Nobody's Diary” 1(×1) 24

10 11 A Flock of Seagulls – “Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)” 1(×1) 23

24 12 Kim Carnes – “Invisible Hands” 12 4

11 13 The Fixx – “Saved By Zero” 5 24

13 14 Thompson Twins – “We Are Detective” 10 18

14 15 Thomas Dolby – “Radio Silence” 14 10

17 16 ABC – “All of My Heart” 16 6

19 17 Mick Fleetwood's Zoo – “I Want You Back” 17 9

18 18 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – “The Romance of the Telescope” 18 11

20 19 Madness – “It Must Be love ” 19 9

22 20 Sparks – “All You Ever Think About Is Sex” 20 8

23 21 Electric Light Orchestra – “Secret Messages” 21 5

16 22 A Flock of Seagulls – “(It's Not Me) Talking” 16 10

21 23 The B-52's – “Legal Tender” 21 11

26 24 The The – “This is the Day” 24 8

25 25 ZZ Top – “Sharp Dressed Man” 25 13

15 26 Naked Eyes – “Promises, Promises” 15 14

28 27 David Bowie – “Modern Love” 27 7

29 28 Prince – “Delirious” 28 6

27 29 New Order – “Your Silent Face” 15 15

30 30 Adam Ant – “Friend Or Foe” 24 9

33 31 Billy Idol – “Dancing with Myself” 31 9

35 32 Bonnie Tyler – “Total Eclipse of the Heart” 32 8

40 33 The Human League – “Mirror Man” 33 3

36 34 Siouxsie & The Banshees – “Dear Prudence” 34 5

37 35 The Fixx – “One Thing Leads to Another” 35 5

34 36 Prince – “1999” 12 22

31 37 Berlin – “The Metro” 8 24

38 38 Violent Femmes – “Gone Daddy Gone” 38 9

39 39 Berlin – “Masquerade” 39 7

41 40 Agnetha Fältskog – “Can't Shake Loose” 40 4

50 41 Big Country – “In a Big Country” 41 2

43 42 Robert Plant – “Big Log” 42 5

NE 43 The Cure – “The Lovecats” 43 1

32 44 The Police – “King of Pain” 32 6

46 45 The Moody Blues – “Sitting at the Wheel” 45 3

49 46 A Flock of Seagulls – “Quicksand” 46 3

47 47 Sheena Easton – “Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)” 47 4

48 48 Elton John – “Too Low for Zero” 48 2

NE 49 Peter Schilling – “Major Tom (Coming Home)” 49 1

NE 50 U2 – “Sunday Bloody Sunday” 50 1

52 51 Let's Active – “Every Word Means No” 51 2

42 52 The Human League – “(Keep Feeling) Fascination” 11 24

DROPOUTS:

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

45 -- The Call – “The Walls Came Down” 8 26

51 -- Herbie Hancock – “Rockit” 42 4

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