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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 6 weeks)
Weeks
15
Number
2 Down by 1

Burning Down The House
Talking Heads
From the album: Speaking In Tongues
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
16
Number
3

Holiday Road
Lindsey Buckingham
From the album: National Lampoon's Vacation (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
21
Number
4

All of My Heart
ABC
From the album: The Lexicon of Love
Peak
4
Weeks
12
Number
5 Up by 1

Radio Free Europe
R.E.M.
Peak
5
Weeks
21
Number
6 Up by 3

Oblivious
Aztec Camera
From the album: High Land, Hard Rain
Peak
6
Weeks
6
Number
7 Up by 1

I Want You Back
Mick Fleetwood's Zoo
Peak
7
Weeks
15
Number
8 Down by 3

The Safety Dance
Men Without Hats
From the album: Rhythm of Youth
Peak
1 (for 3 weeks)
Weeks
24
Number
9 Up by 1

All You Ever Think About Is Sex
Sparks
From the album: In Outer Space
Peak
9
Weeks
14
Number
10 Up by 2

It Must Be love
Madness
Peak
10
Weeks
15
Number
11

Everything Counts
Depeche Mode
From the album: Construction Time Again
Peak
3
Weeks
18
Number
12 Up by 1

Delirious
Prince
From the album: 1999
Peak
12
Weeks
12
Number
13 Up by 5

I Like
Men Without Hats
From the album: Rhythm of Youth
Peak
13
Weeks
5
Number
14 Up by 1

Mirror Man
The Human League
From the album: Fascination!
Peak
14
Weeks
9
Number
15 Up by 1

Secret Messages
Electric Light Orchestra
From the album: Secret Messages
Peak
15
Weeks
11
Number
16 Up by 1

The Lovecats
The Cure
Peak
16
Weeks
7
Number
17 Down by 10

Invisible Hands
Kim Carnes
From the album: Café Racers
Peak
7
Weeks
10
Number
18 Up by 8

This Is the House
Eurythmics
From the album: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Peak
18
Weeks
4
Number
19 Up by 2

One Thing Leads to Another
The Fixx
From the album: Reach the Beach
Peak
19
Weeks
11
Number
20

Modern Love
David Bowie
From the album: Let's Dance
Peak
20
Weeks
13
Number
21 Up by 4

In a Big Country
Big Country
From the album: The Crossing
Peak
21
Weeks
8
Number
22 Up by 19

Owner of a Lonely Heart
Yes
From the album: 90125
Peak
22
Weeks
2
Number
23 Down by 9

Pale Shelter (You Don't Give Me Love)
Tears for Fears
From the album: The Hurting
Peak
1 (for 2 weeks)
Weeks
29
Number
24 Down by 5

Radio Silence
Thomas Dolby
From the album: The Golden Age of Wireless
Peak
14
Weeks
16
Number
25 Up by 4

Watching
Thompson Twins
From the album: Quick Step & Side Kick
Peak
25
Weeks
6
Number
26 Down by 3

This is the Day
The The
From the album: Soul Mining
Peak
23
Weeks
14
Number
27 Up by 3

Major Tom (Coming Home)
Peter Schilling
From the album: Error in the System
Peak
27
Weeks
7
Number
28 Up by 5

Flying North
Thomas Dolby
From the album: The Golden Age of Wireless
Peak
28
Weeks
6
Number
29 Up by 9

State of the Nation
Industry
From the album: Stranger to Stranger
Peak
29
Weeks
4
Number
30 Down by 8

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
Eurythmics
From the album: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Peak
1 (for 2 weeks)
Weeks
31
Number
31 Down by 3

Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)
A Flock of Seagulls
From the album: Listen
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
29
Number
32 Up by 3

When the Lights Go Out
Naked Eyes
From the album: Naked Eyes
Peak
32
Weeks
5
Number
33 Up by 4

Song for a Future Generation
The B-52's
From the album: Whammy!
Peak
33
Weeks
5
Number
34 Up by 14

This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody)
Talking Heads
From the album: Speaking In Tongues
Peak
34
Weeks
3
Number
35 Up by 5

Say It Isn't So
Daryl Hall and John Oates
From the album: Rock 'n' Soul, Part I
Peak
35
Weeks
4
Number
36 Down by 12

Europa and the Pirate Twins
Thomas Dolby
From the album: The Golden Age of Wireless
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
27
Number
37 Down by 10

Nobody's Diary
Yazoo
From the album: You And Me Both
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
30
Number
38 Down by 2

Mama
Genesis
Peak
36
Weeks
6
Number
39 Up by 5

Nightmares
A Flock of Seagulls
From the album: Listen
Peak
39
Weeks
3
Number
40 Down by 1

Quicksand
A Flock of Seagulls
Peak
38
Weeks
9
Number
41 Up by 8

Moon 83
The B-52's
From the album: Whammy!
Peak
41
Weeks
2
Number
42 Down by 12

We Are Detective
Thompson Twins
From the album: Quick Step & Side Kick
Peak
10
Weeks
24
Number
43 Down by 9

Can't Shake Loose
Agnetha Fältskog
From the album: Wrap Your Arms Around Me
Peak
32
Weeks
10
Number
44 Up by 1

2000 Miles
The Pretenders
Peak
44
Weeks
3
Number
45 Up by 5

Send Me An Angel
Real Life
Peak
45
Weeks
2
Number
46 Up by 5

Talk About the Passion
R.E.M.
From the album: Murmur
Peak
46
Weeks
2
Number
47

TV Dinners
ZZ Top
From the album: Eliminator
Peak
47
Weeks
5
Number
48 Down by 2

Every Word Means No
Let's Active
Peak
46
Weeks
8
Number
49 Debut

Shooting Shark
Blue Öyster Cult
Peak
49
Weeks
1
Number
50 Up by 2

Love Is a Battlefield
Pat Benatar
From the album: Live From Earth, The Collection
Peak
50
Weeks
2
Number
51 Debut

The Politics of Dancing
Re-Flex
From the album: The Politics of Dancing
Peak
51
Weeks
1
Number
52 Down by 20

Dear Prudence
Siouxsie & The Banshees
From the album: Hyæna
Peak
30
Weeks
11

Dropouts

Number
42 Dropout

Saved By Zero
The Fixx
From the album: Reach the Beach
Peak
5
Weeks
29
Number
43 Dropout

Sunday Bloody Sunday
U2
From the album: War
Peak
43
Weeks
6

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Date

December 17, 1983

Songs

52

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2 1 Eurythmics – “Love Is A Stranger” 1(×6) 15

1 2 Talking Heads – “Burning Down The House” 1(×1) 16

3 3 Lindsey Buckingham – “Holiday Road” 1(×1) 21

4 4 ABC – “All of My Heart” 4 12

6 5 R.E.M. – “Radio Free Europe” 5 21

9 6 Aztec Camera – “Oblivious” 6 6

8 7 Mick Fleetwood's Zoo – “I Want You Back” 7 15

5 8 Men Without Hats – “The Safety Dance” 1(×3) 24

10 9 Sparks – “All You Ever Think About Is Sex” 9 14

12 10 Madness – “It Must Be love ” 10 15

11 11 Depeche Mode – “Everything Counts” 3 18

13 12 Prince – “Delirious” 12 12

18 13 Men Without Hats – “I Like” 13 5

15 14 The Human League – “Mirror Man” 14 9

16 15 Electric Light Orchestra – “Secret Messages” 15 11

17 16 The Cure – “The Lovecats” 16 7

7 17 Kim Carnes – “Invisible Hands” 7 10

26 18 Eurythmics – “This Is the House” 18 4

21 19 The Fixx – “One Thing Leads to Another” 19 11

20 20 David Bowie – “Modern Love” 20 13

25 21 Big Country – “In a Big Country” 21 8

41 22 Yes – “Owner of a Lonely Heart” 22 2

14 23 Tears for Fears – “Pale Shelter (You Don't Give Me Love)” 1(×2) 29

19 24 Thomas Dolby – “Radio Silence” 14 16

29 25 Thompson Twins – “Watching” 25 6

23 26 The The – “This is the Day” 23 14

30 27 Peter Schilling – “Major Tom (Coming Home)” 27 7

33 28 Thomas Dolby – “Flying North” 28 6

38 29 Industry – “State of the Nation” 29 4

22 30 Eurythmics – “Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)” 1(×2) 31

28 31 A Flock of Seagulls – “Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)” 1(×1) 29

35 32 Naked Eyes – “When the Lights Go Out” 32 5

37 33 The B-52's – “Song for a Future Generation” 33 5

48 34 Talking Heads – “This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody)” 34 3

40 35 Daryl Hall and John Oates – “Say It Isn't So” 35 4

24 36 Thomas Dolby – “Europa and the Pirate Twins” 1(×1) 27

27 37 Yazoo – “Nobody's Diary” 1(×1) 30

36 38 Genesis – “Mama” 36 6

44 39 A Flock of Seagulls – “Nightmares” 39 3

39 40 A Flock of Seagulls – “Quicksand” 38 9

49 41 The B-52's – “Moon 83” 41 2

30 42 Thompson Twins – “We Are Detective” 10 24

34 43 Agnetha Fältskog – “Can't Shake Loose” 32 10

45 44 The Pretenders – “2000 Miles” 44 3

50 45 Real Life – “Send Me An Angel” 45 2

51 46 R.E.M. – “Talk About the Passion” 46 2

47 47 ZZ Top – “TV Dinners” 47 5

46 48 Let's Active – “Every Word Means No” 46 8

NE 49 Blue Öyster Cult – “Shooting Shark” 49 1

52 50 Pat Benatar – “Love Is a Battlefield” 50 2

NE 51 Re-Flex – “The Politics of Dancing” 51 1

32 52 Siouxsie & The Banshees – “Dear Prudence” 30 11

DROPOUTS:

42 -- The Fixx – “Saved By Zero” 5 29

43 -- U2 – “Sunday Bloody Sunday” 43 6

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