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 9

Games Without Frontiers
Peter Gabriel
From the album: Peter Gabriel 3: Melt
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
4
Number
2 Down by 1

Babooshka
Kate Bush
From the album: Never For Ever
Peak
1 (for 2 weeks)
Weeks
11
Number
3 Down by 1

Love Will Tear Us Apart
Joy Division
Peak
1 (for 3 weeks)
Weeks
12
Number
4 Up by 2

Emotional Rescue
The Rolling Stones
From the album: Emotional Rescue
Peak
4
Weeks
11
Number
5 Down by 1

Messages
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
From the album: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Peak
1 (for 8 weeks)
Weeks
19
Number
6 Up by 3

Xanadu
Olivia Newton-John & Electric Light Orchestra
From the album: Xanadu (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Peak
6
Weeks
6
Number
7 Up by 1

All Over the World
Electric Light Orchestra
From the album: Xanadu (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Peak
7
Weeks
7
Number
8 Down by 1

Let My Love Open the Door
Pete Townshend
From the album: Empty Glass
Peak
7
Weeks
11
Number
9 Up by 2

Another One Bites The Dust
Queen
From the album: The Game
Peak
9
Weeks
5
Number
10 Up by 2

Ashes To Ashes
David Bowie
From the album: Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
Peak
10
Weeks
2
Number
11 Down by 6

It's Still Rock and Roll To Me
Billy Joel
From the album: Glass Houses
Peak
4
Weeks
16
Number
12 Up by 3

Upside Down
Diana Ross
From the album: Diana
Peak
12
Weeks
6
Number
13 Up by 3

I Got You
Split Enz
From the album: True Colours
Peak
13
Weeks
3
Number
14 Down by 11

Magic
Olivia Newton-John
From the album: Xanadu (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Peak
3
Weeks
13
Number
15 Down by 2

Tired of Toein' the Line
Rocky Burnette
From the album: The Son of Rock and Roll
Peak
11
Weeks
15
Number
16 Down by 2

M.E.
Gary Numan
From the album: The Pleasure Principle
Peak
3
Weeks
19
Number
18 Up by 4

I'm Alright
Kenny Loggins
From the album: Caddyshack (Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Peak
18
Weeks
6
Number
19 Down by 2

Funkytown
Lipps Inc.
From the album: Mouth To Mouth
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
22
Number
20 Down by 2

Cars
Gary Numan
From the album: The Pleasure Principle
Peak
1 (for 9 weeks)
Weeks
31
Number
21

Misunderstanding
Genesis
From the album: Duke
Peak
21
Weeks
10
Number
22 Down by 3

So Long
Fisher-Z
Peak
10
Weeks
17
Number
23 Up by 3

Jesse
Carly Simon
From the album: Come Upstairs
Peak
23
Weeks
8
Number
24 Down by 4

I'm Alive
Electric Light Orchestra
From the album: Xanadu (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Peak
11
Weeks
15
Number
25 Down by 2

Twilight Zone
Manhattan Transfer
Peak
21
Weeks
13
Number
26 Up by 3

Don't Ask Me Why
Billy Joel
From the album: Glass Houses
Peak
26
Weeks
5
Number
26 Up by 3

Take Your Time (Do It Right)
The S.O.S. Band
From the album: S.O.S.
Peak
26
Weeks
10
Number
27

Drivin’ My Life Away
Eddie Rabbitt
From the album: Horizon
Peak
27
Weeks
9
Number
28 Up by 3

Sleepwalk
Ultravox
From the album: Vienna
Peak
28
Weeks
4
Number
29 Down by 4

Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)
Squeeze
From the album: Argybargy
Peak
24
Weeks
14
Number
30 Down by 6

Coming Up
Paul McCartney
From the album: McCartney II
Peak
8
Weeks
18
Number
31 Down by 3

If I Didn't Love You
Squeeze
Peak
6
Weeks
24
Number
32

Play the Game
Queen
From the album: The Game
Peak
18
Weeks
14
Number
33

Brass In Pocket (I'm Special)
The Pretenders
From the album: Pretenders
Peak
2
Weeks
30
Number
34

Mystery Achievement
The Pretenders
From the album: Pretenders
Peak
26
Weeks
12
Number
35 Debut

Whip It
Devo
From the album: Freedom of Choice
Peak
35
Weeks
1
Number
36 Down by 1

Love Stinks
The J. Geils Band
From the album: Love Stinks
Peak
20
Weeks
17
Number
37 Down by 1

Main Dans La Main
Elli & Jacno
Peak
9
Weeks
21
Number
38 Down by 2

Christine
Siouxsie & The Banshees
From the album: Kaleidoscope
Peak
17
Weeks
15
Number
39 Down by 1

Empire State Human
The Human League
From the album: Reproduction
Peak
33
Weeks
13
Number
40 Down by 1

You Better Run
Pat Benatar
From the album: Crimes of Passion
Peak
39
Weeks
2

Dropouts

Number
39 Dropout

A Forest
The Cure
From the album: Seventeen Seconds
Peak
15
Weeks
19

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Date

September 13, 1980

Songs

40

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10 1 Peter Gabriel – “Games Without Frontiers” 1(×1) 4

1 2 Kate Bush – “Babooshka” 1(×2) 11

2 3 Joy Division – “Love Will Tear Us Apart” 1(×3) 12

6 4 The Rolling Stones – “Emotional Rescue” 4 11

4 5 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – “Messages” 1(×8) 19

9 6 Olivia Newton-John & Electric Light Orchestra – “Xanadu” 6 6

8 7 Electric Light Orchestra – “All Over the World” 7 7

7 8 Pete Townshend – “Let My Love Open the Door” 7 11

11 9 Queen – “Another One Bites The Dust” 9 5

12 10 David Bowie – “Ashes To Ashes” 10 2

5 11 Billy Joel – “It's Still Rock and Roll To Me” 4 16

15 12 Diana Ross – “Upside Down” 12 6

16 13 Split Enz – “I Got You” 13 3

3 14 Olivia Newton-John – “Magic” 3 13

13 15 Rocky Burnette – “Tired of Toein' the Line” 11 15

14 16 Gary Numan – “M.E.” 3 19

22 18 Kenny Loggins – “I'm Alright” 18 6

17 19 Lipps Inc. – “Funkytown” 1(×1) 22

18 20 Gary Numan – “Cars” 1(×9) 31

21 21 Genesis – “Misunderstanding” 21 10

19 22 Fisher-Z – “So Long” 10 17

26 23 Carly Simon – “Jesse” 23 8

20 24 Electric Light Orchestra – “I'm Alive” 11 15

23 25 Manhattan Transfer – “Twilight Zone” 21 13

29 26 Billy Joel – “Don't Ask Me Why” 26 5

29 26 The S.O.S. Band – “Take Your Time (Do It Right)” 26 10

27 27 Eddie Rabbitt – “Drivin’ My Life Away” 27 9

31 28 Ultravox – “Sleepwalk” 28 4

25 29 Squeeze – “Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)” 24 14

24 30 Paul McCartney – “Coming Up” 8 18

28 31 Squeeze – “If I Didn't Love You” 6 24

32 32 Queen – “Play the Game” 18 14

33 33 The Pretenders – “Brass In Pocket (I'm Special)” 2 30

34 34 The Pretenders – “Mystery Achievement” 26 12

NE 35 Devo – “Whip It” 35 1

35 36 The J. Geils Band – “Love Stinks” 20 17

36 37 Elli & Jacno – “Main Dans La Main” 9 21

36 38 Siouxsie & The Banshees – “Christine” 17 15

38 39 The Human League – “Empire State Human” 33 13

39 40 Pat Benatar – “You Better Run” 39 2

DROPOUTS:

39 -- The Cure – “A Forest” 15 19

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