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Way Back Wednesday

Music

Way Back Wednesday: The Top Music of May 6th, 1983

Eric Vardeman

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 &

Music

Way Back Wednesday: The Top Music of April 29th, 1983

Eric Vardeman

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

Music

Way Back Wednesday: The Top Music of April 23rd, 1983

Eric Vardeman

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

Music

Way Back Wednesday: The Top Music of April 15th, 1983

Eric Vardeman

This Week In 1983: April 15th It’s the last week in the #1 spot for Michael Jackson and “Billy Jean”. This week’s top ten songs looks like it could be a greatest hits of the

Music

Way Back Wednesday: The Top Music of April 8th, 1983

Eric Vardeman

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

Music

Way Back Wednesday: The Top Music of April 1st, 1983

Eric Vardeman

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

Music

Way Back Wednesday: The Top Music of March 25, 1983

Eric Vardeman

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

Music

Way Back Wednesday: The Top Music of March 18, 1983

Eric Vardeman

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”,

Music

Way Back Wednesday: The Top Music of March 11, 1983

Eric Vardeman

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

Music

Way Back Wednesday: The Top Music of March 5, 1983

Eric Vardeman

This Week In 1983: March 5th After seven weeks on the charts, Michael Jackson finally takes the number one spot with “Billie Jean”. It’s the first number one single from his juggernaut “Thriller” album. It’s

Music

Way Back Wednesday: The Top Music of February 26, 1983

Eric Vardeman

This Week In 1983: February 26th Patti Austin and James Ingram are holding strong at #1 with “Baby, Come To Me”. Toto and “Africa” fall fourteen spots to #19, Phil Collins drops twelve spots to

Music

Way Back Wednesday: The Top Music of February 19, 1983

Eric Vardeman

This Week In 1983: February 19th We have a new #1 song this week. Patti Austin and James Ingram move into the top spot with “Baby, Come To Me”. The top 20 remains largely unchanged

Music

Way Back Wednesday: The Top Music of February 12, 1983

Eric Vardeman

This Week In 1983: February 5th After slipping one spot to #2 last week, Men At Work reclaim the top spot with “Down Under”. This week’s biggest drop is by Don Henley and the song

Music

Way Back Wednesday: The Top Music of February 5, 1983

Eric Vardeman

This Week In 1983: February 5th After three weeks in the top spot, Men At Work finally slip one notch making way for Toto and their only #1 hit “Africa”. The song was written by

Music

Way Back Wednesday: The Top Music of January 29, 1983

Eric Vardeman

This Week In 1983: January 29th Men At Work are still holding down the top spot. After being in the top ten since November of 1982, “Mickey” by Toni Basil starts it’s quick descent back

Music

Way Back Wednesday: The Top Music of January 22, 1983

Eric Vardeman

This Week In 1983: January 22nd Men At Work are still holding strong this week at #1 with “Down Under”. In fact, all the songs in the top ten are the same, just shuffled a

Music

Way Back Wednesday: January 15, 1983

Eric Vardeman

This Week In 1983: January 15th After four weeks in the top spots, Hall & Oates are supplanted by Men At Work with the song “Down Under”. The song’s lyrics, full of slang and drug

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