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This Week In 1983: The Top Music of July 1st, 1983 Big drops this week by Journey (ten spots), Men At Work (thirteen spots) and Lionel Richie (seventeen spots). Michael Jackson moves his fourth single,

This Week In 1983: The Top Music of June 24th, 1983 Irene Cara still sits atop the chart in the #1 position. The biggest jump of the week belongs to The Police and the song

This Week In 1983: The Top Music of June 17th, 1983 Irene Cara still holding strong in the #1 position. She’s got two more weeks to go. The biggest jump of the week belongs to

This Week In 1983: The Top Music of June 3rd, 1983 It’s week number 2 for Irene Cara in the #1 position. In fact, all the songs in the Top Ten stay in the top

This Week In 1983: The Top Music of May 27th, 1983 After only one week in the top spot, David Bowie gives way to Irene Cara and “Flashdance…What A Feeling”. She’ll occupy the top spot

This Week In 1983: The Top Music of May 20th, 1983 Last weeks highlight song, “Let’s Dance” by David Bowie, knocks “Beat It” out of the top spot after a three week run. “She Blinded

This Week In 1983: May 13th It’s the third and final week at #1 for “Beat It” and, while there are still four more singles to be released from the album Thriller (all of which

This Week In 1983: May 6th There’s really no need to talk about who’s sitting at #1, right? Michael Jackson and “Beat It” hold steady in the top spot for yet another week. Hall &

This Week In 1983: April 29th Only out of the top spot for a week, Michael Jackson retakes the #1 position with “Beat It”. In the bottom half of the Top Twenty, Duran Duran meets

This Week In 1983: April 23rd After seven weeks in the top spot, “Billie Jean” is dethroned by Dexys Midnight Runner and their song, “Come On Eileen”. DMR is a true One Hit Wonder here

This Week In 1983: April 8th Michael Jackson bookends the top top with “Beat It” moving into the #10 spot while “Billy Jean” still has a stranglehold on #1. Duran Duran also occupies spots on

This Week In 1983: April 1st An ultra rare phenomena, all of the top ten songs stay in the same position they were in last week (actually the top 11). I did a little research

This Week In 1983: March 25th Michael Jackson and “Billie Jean” continue their reign at #1 for the fourth consecutive week. A month before this, the album Thriller hit #1 on the Billboard album chart

This Week In 1983: March 18th As usual, we’ve got quite a few songs making the slow inevitable slide down the chart as others are still steadily climbing their way up (“Jeopardy”, “Come On Eileen”,

This Week In 1983: March 11th Michael Jackson still sits on top of the chart for the second of seven weeks. There isn’t a whole lot of movement on the chart this week. The biggest