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 3 weeks)
Weeks
10
Number
2 Up by 1

Holiday Road
Lindsey Buckingham
From the album: National Lampoon's Vacation (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Peak
2
Weeks
16
Number
3 Up by 1

Everything Counts
Depeche Mode
From the album: Construction Time Again
Peak
3
Weeks
13
Number
4 Down by 2

The Safety Dance
Men Without Hats
From the album: Rhythm of Youth
Peak
1 (for 3 weeks)
Weeks
19
Number
5 Up by 1

Burning Down The House
Talking Heads
From the album: Speaking In Tongues
Peak
5
Weeks
11
Number
6 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
24
Number
7 Up by 1

Radio Free Europe
R.E.M.
Peak
7
Weeks
16
Number
8 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
26
Number
9

Europa and the Pirate Twins
Thomas Dolby
From the album: The Golden Age of Wireless
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
22
Number
10 Up by 2

Invisible Hands
Kim Carnes
From the album: Café Racers
Peak
10
Weeks
5
Number
11 Down by 1

Nobody's Diary
Yazoo
From the album: You And Me Both
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
25
Number
12 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
24
Number
13 Up by 3

All of My Heart
ABC
From the album: The Lexicon of Love
Peak
13
Weeks
7
Number
14 Up by 1

Radio Silence
Thomas Dolby
From the album: The Golden Age of Wireless
Peak
14
Weeks
11
Number
15 Down by 2

Saved By Zero
The Fixx
From the album: Reach the Beach
Peak
5
Weeks
25
Number
16 Down by 2

We Are Detective
Thompson Twins
From the album: Quick Step & Side Kick
Peak
10
Weeks
19
Number
17

I Want You Back
Mick Fleetwood's Zoo
Peak
17
Weeks
10
Number
18 Up by 1

It Must Be love
Madness
Peak
18
Weeks
10
Number
19 Up by 1

All You Ever Think About Is Sex
Sparks
From the album: In Outer Space
Peak
19
Weeks
9
Number
20 Up by 1

Secret Messages
Electric Light Orchestra
From the album: Secret Messages
Peak
20
Weeks
6
Number
21 Down by 3

The Romance of the Telescope
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
From the album: Dazzle Ships
Peak
18
Weeks
12
Number
22

(It's Not Me) Talking
A Flock of Seagulls
From the album: Listen
Peak
16
Weeks
11
Number
23

Legal Tender
The B-52's
From the album: Whammy!
Peak
21
Weeks
12
Number
24

Friend Or Foe
Adam Ant
From the album: Friend Or Foe
Peak
24
Weeks
10
Number
25

This is the Day
The The
From the album: Soul Mining
Peak
25
Weeks
9
Number
26 Up by 2

Delirious
Prince
From the album: 1999
Peak
26
Weeks
7
Number
27

Modern Love
David Bowie
From the album: Let's Dance
Peak
27
Weeks
8
Number
28 Up by 3

Mirror Man
The Human League
From the album: Fascination!
Peak
28
Weeks
4
Number
29 Debut

Oblivious
Aztec Camera
From the album: High Land, Hard Rain
Peak
29
Weeks
1
Number
30 Down by 4

Promises, Promises
Naked Eyes
From the album: Naked Eyes
Peak
15
Weeks
15
Number
31 Up by 3

Dear Prudence
Siouxsie & The Banshees
From the album: Hyæna
Peak
31
Weeks
6
Number
32 Up by 1

Total Eclipse of the Heart
Bonnie Tyler
From the album: Faster Than the Speed of Night
Peak
32
Weeks
9
Number
33 Down by 1

Dancing with Myself
Billy Idol
Peak
32
Weeks
10
Number
34 Up by 1

One Thing Leads to Another
The Fixx
From the album: Reach the Beach
Peak
34
Weeks
6
Number
35 Down by 6

Your Silent Face
New Order
From the album: Power, Corruption & Lies
Peak
15
Weeks
16
Number
36 Up by 2

Masquerade
Berlin
From the album: Pleasure Victim
Peak
36
Weeks
8
Number
37

Gone Daddy Gone
Violent Femmes
From the album: Violent Femmes
Peak
37
Weeks
10
Number
38 Up by 1

Can't Shake Loose
Agnetha Fältskog
From the album: Wrap Your Arms Around Me
Peak
38
Weeks
5
Number
39 Up by 1

In a Big Country
Big Country
From the album: The Crossing
Peak
39
Weeks
3
Number
40 Up by 2

The Lovecats
The Cure
Peak
40
Weeks
2
Number
41

Big Log
Robert Plant
From the album: The Principle of Moments
Peak
41
Weeks
6
Number
42 Down by 12

1999
Prince
From the album: 1999
Peak
12
Weeks
23
Number
43 Up by 5

Major Tom (Coming Home)
Peter Schilling
From the album: Error in the System
Peak
43
Weeks
2
Number
44 Down by 1

King of Pain
The Police
From the album: Synchronicity
Peak
31
Weeks
7
Number
45 Up by 5

Sunday Bloody Sunday
U2
From the album: War
Peak
45
Weeks
2
Number
46 Debut

Mama
Genesis
Peak
46
Weeks
1
Number
47

Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)
Sheena Easton
From the album: Best Kept Secret
Peak
47
Weeks
5
Number
48 Up by 1

Too Low for Zero
Elton John
From the album: 2 ↓ 4 0
Peak
48
Weeks
3
Number
49 Debut

Watching
Thompson Twins
From the album: Quick Step & Side Kick
Peak
49
Weeks
1
Number
50 Debut

Flying North
Thomas Dolby
From the album: The Golden Age of Wireless
Peak
50
Weeks
1

Dropouts

Number
36 Dropout

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

The Walls Came Down
The Call
Peak
8
Weeks
27
Number
45 Dropout

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

Sitting at the Wheel
The Moody Blues
From the album: The Present
Peak
46
Weeks
3

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Date

November 12, 1983

Songs

50

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1 1 Eurythmics – “Love Is A Stranger” 1(×3) 10

3 2 Lindsey Buckingham – “Holiday Road” 2 16

4 3 Depeche Mode – “Everything Counts” 3 13

2 4 Men Without Hats – “The Safety Dance” 1(×3) 19

6 5 Talking Heads – “Burning Down The House” 5 11

5 6 Tears for Fears – “Pale Shelter (You Don't Give Me Love)” 1(×2) 24

8 7 R.E.M. – “Radio Free Europe” 7 16

7 8 Eurythmics – “Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)” 1(×2) 26

9 9 Thomas Dolby – “Europa and the Pirate Twins” 1(×1) 22

12 10 Kim Carnes – “Invisible Hands” 10 5

10 11 Yazoo – “Nobody's Diary” 1(×1) 25

11 12 A Flock of Seagulls – “Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)” 1(×1) 24

16 13 ABC – “All of My Heart” 13 7

15 14 Thomas Dolby – “Radio Silence” 14 11

13 15 The Fixx – “Saved By Zero” 5 25

14 16 Thompson Twins – “We Are Detective” 10 19

17 17 Mick Fleetwood's Zoo – “I Want You Back” 17 10

19 18 Madness – “It Must Be love ” 18 10

20 19 Sparks – “All You Ever Think About Is Sex” 19 9

21 20 Electric Light Orchestra – “Secret Messages” 20 6

18 21 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – “The Romance of the Telescope” 18 12

22 22 A Flock of Seagulls – “(It's Not Me) Talking” 16 11

23 23 The B-52's – “Legal Tender” 21 12

24 24 Adam Ant – “Friend Or Foe” 24 10

25 25 The The – “This is the Day” 25 9

28 26 Prince – “Delirious” 26 7

27 27 David Bowie – “Modern Love” 27 8

31 28 The Human League – “Mirror Man” 28 4

NE 29 Aztec Camera – “Oblivious” 29 1

26 30 Naked Eyes – “Promises, Promises” 15 15

34 31 Siouxsie & The Banshees – “Dear Prudence” 31 6

33 32 Bonnie Tyler – “Total Eclipse of the Heart” 32 9

32 33 Billy Idol – “Dancing with Myself” 32 10

35 34 The Fixx – “One Thing Leads to Another” 34 6

29 35 New Order – “Your Silent Face” 15 16

38 36 Berlin – “Masquerade” 36 8

37 37 Violent Femmes – “Gone Daddy Gone” 37 10

39 38 Agnetha Fältskog – “Can't Shake Loose” 38 5

40 39 Big Country – “In a Big Country” 39 3

42 40 The Cure – “The Lovecats” 40 2

41 41 Robert Plant – “Big Log” 41 6

30 42 Prince – “1999” 12 23

48 43 Peter Schilling – “Major Tom (Coming Home)” 43 2

43 44 The Police – “King of Pain” 31 7

50 45 U2 – “Sunday Bloody Sunday” 45 2

NE 46 Genesis – “Mama” 46 1

47 47 Sheena Easton – “Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)” 47 5

49 48 Elton John – “Too Low for Zero” 48 3

NE 49 Thompson Twins – “Watching” 49 1

NE 50 Thomas Dolby – “Flying North” 50 1

DROPOUTS:

36 -- Berlin – “The Metro” 8 24

44 -- The Call – “The Walls Came Down” 8 27

45 -- The Human League – “(Keep Feeling) Fascination” 11 24

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

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