Lists of the number one and top·ranked Album Rock Songs of 1982
SPECIAL NOTICE: Two new Radio Underground exclusive year · end rankings for 1982 using the Radio Underground point system and the Joel Whitburn method are now available! See "Year End Charts" section below.
| Title | Artist | Weeks at #1 | Starting Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harden My Heart | Quarterflash | 3 weeks (2 week(s) in 1982) | see 1981 Number Ones for start date |
| Centerfold | The J. Geils Band | 3 weeks | 1982-01-16 |
| I Love Rock & Roll | Joan Jett & The Blackhearts | 5 weeks | 1982-02-06 |
| Pretty Woman | Van Halen | 2 weeks | 1982-03-13 |
| Don't Let Him Know | Prism | 1 week | 1982-03-27 |
| 867-5309 Jenny | Tommy Tutone | 3 weeks | 1982-04-03 |
| Heat Of The Moment | Asia | 6 weeks | 1982-04-24 |
| No One Like You | The Scorpions | 1 week | 1982-05-29 |
| Stone Cold | Rainbow | 1 week | 1982-06-05 |
| Hurts So Good | John Cougar | 1 week | 1982-06-19 |
| Caught Up In You | 38 Special | 1 week | 1982-06-26 |
| Eye Of The Tiger (The Theme From Rocky III) | Survivor | 5 weeks | 1982-07-03 |
| Think I'm In Love | Eddie Money | 3 weeks | 1982-08-07 |
| Everybody Wants You | Billy Squier | 6 weeks | 1982-08-28 |
| New World Man | Rush | 2 weeks | 1982-10-09 |
| Dirty Laundry | Don Henley | 3 weeks | 1982-10-16 |
| Shock The Monkey | Peter Gabriel | 2 weeks | 1982-11-13 |
| Down Under | Men At Work | 5 weeks (3 week(s) in 1982) | 1982-11-27 |
| You Got Lucky | Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers | 3 weeks (2 week(s) in 1982) | 1982-12-11 |
| 19 total | |||
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Billboard Magazine didn't publish a year · end countdown for their Album Rock Tracks chart until 1985. I HAD to do something about this for Radio Underground,so...
This chart ranks the top 40 Album Rock tracks for 1982, based on chart data from Billboard Magazine's Album Rock Tracks Chart, using my "point system". By assigning a specific number of points for each track (view the point system here), based on their rank for each week, and using the "magic" of some PHP programming, I came up with a year·end ranking for 1982! In case of a tie in points, I use the "Joel Whitburn" method (see the next chart below this one) to break the tie.
This countdown surveys the Album Rock Tracks Chart from the first week of the calendar year to the last week of the calendar year.
| Rank | Title | Artist | Peak | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | I Love Rock & Roll | Joan Jett & The Blackhearts | # 1 | 1133 |
| 2. | Everybody Wants You | Billy Squier | # 1 | 1111 |
| 3. | Fantasy | Aldo Nova | # 3 | 1083 |
| 4. | Hurts So Good | John Cougar | # 1 | 1066 |
| 5. | Heat Of The Moment | Asia | # 1 | 1059 |
| 6. | Burning Down One Side | Robert Plant | # 3 | 999 |
| 7. | No One Like You | The Scorpions | # 1 | 966 |
| 8. | Dirty Laundry | Don Henley | # 1 | 958 |
| 9. | You've Got Another Thing Coming | Judas Priest | # 4 | 942 |
| 10. | Freeze·Frame | The J. Geils Band | # 8 | 928 |
| 11. | Centerfold | The J. Geils Band | # 1 | 904 |
| 12. | I Ran | A Flock Of Seagulls | # 3 | 903 |
| 13. | I'll Fall In Love Again | Sammy Hagar | # 2 | 900 |
| 14. | Caught Up In You | 38 Special | # 1 | 895 |
| 15. | Working For The Weekend | Loverboy | # 2 | 891 |
| 16. | 867-5309 Jenny | Tommy Tutone | # 1 | 887 |
| 17. | Pretty Woman | Van Halen | # 1 | 870 |
| 18. | Eye Of The Tiger (The Theme From Rocky III) | Survivor | # 1 | 862 |
| 19. | Don't Let Him Know | Prism | # 1 | 861 |
| 20. | Think I'm In Love | Eddie Money | # 1 | 841 |
| 21. | Shake It Up | The Cars | # 2 | 836 |
| 22. | New World Man | Rush | # 1 | 834 |
| 23. | Stone Cold | Rainbow | # 1 | 812 |
| 24. | Paperlate | Genesis | # 2 | 810 |
| 25. | Flying High | Ozzy Osbourne | # 2 | 809 |
| 26. | Only Time Will Tell | Asia | # 8 | 803 |
| 27. | Still In The Game | Steve Winwood | # 8 | 782 |
| 28. | Play The Game Tonight | Kansas | # 4 | 777 |
| 29. | Should I Stay Or Should I Go? | The Clash | # 13 | 768 |
| 30. | Dancing In The Streets | Van Halen | # 3 | 746 |
| 31. | Shock The Monkey | Peter Gabriel | # 1 | 740 |
| 32. | Spirits In The Material World | The Police | # 7 | 739 |
| 33. | Crimson And Clover | Joan Jett & The Blackhearts | # 6 | 737 |
| 34. | Gypsy | Fleetwood Mac | # 4 | 736 |
| 35. | Hold Me | Fleetwood Mac | # 3 | 730 |
| 36. | Athena | The Who | # 3 | 716 |
| 37. | Don't You Want Me | The Human League | # 4 | 712 |
| 38. | Eminence Front | The Who | # 5 | 706 |
| 39. | Lonely Nights | Bryan Adams | # 3 | 705 |
| 40. | Abracadabra | The Steve Miller Band | # 4 | 697 |
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Joel Whitburn was an author, writer of many books listing and archiving songs that charted on Billboard Magazine's various charts over the past few decades, mostly 1955 and later. In his books related to the Hot 100 chart, Whitburn ranks the top 25 songs for each decade. The method he uses starts with all of the songs that reached number one, then ranks them according to weeks spent at number one (the more weeks, the higher the ranking), then weeks spent in the top 10 (also the more weeks, the higher the ranking), then weeks spent in the top 40 (see previous two).
It's unclear from his books whether Mr. Whitburn devised this method for ranking songs, or someone else did, but this is the method used in his books. The following ranking, again through the use of a PHP program, uses this method for ranking Billboard's top 40 Album Rock Tracks for 1982.
Like the chart above, this countdown also surveys the Album Rock Tracks Chart from the first week of the calendar year to the last week of the calendar year.
| Rank | Title | Artist | Peak* | Wks@Pk | WksTop10 | WksTop40 | WksOnCht |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Everybody Wants You | Billy Squier | # 1 | 6 | 11 | 19 | 20 |
| 2. | Heat Of The Moment | Asia | # 1 | 6 | 10 | 18 | 22 |
| 3. | I Love Rock & Roll | Joan Jett & The Blackhearts | # 1 | 5 | 12 | 20 | 23 |
| 4. | Eye Of The Tiger (The Theme From Rocky III) | Survivor | # 1 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 15 |
| 5. | Dirty Laundry | Don Henley | # 1 | 3 | 11 | 16 | 16 |
| 6. | 867-5309 Jenny | Tommy Tutone | # 1 | 3 | 9 | 16 | 22 |
| 7. | Centerfold | The J. Geils Band | # 1 | 3 | 9 | 15 | 18 |
| 8. | Think I'm In Love | Eddie Money | # 1 | 3 | 9 | 14 | 14 |
| 9. | Down Under | Men At Work | # 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 10 |
| 10. | Pretty Woman | Van Halen | # 1 | 2 | 10 | 14 | 15 |
| 11. | New World Man | Rush | # 1 | 2 | 10 | 13 | 16 |
| 12. | Shock The Monkey | Peter Gabriel | # 1 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 12 |
| 13. | Harden My Heart | Quarterflash | # 1 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 15 |
| 14. | You Got Lucky | Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers | # 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 7 |
| 15. | Hurts So Good | John Cougar | # 1 | 1 | 11 | 19 | 26 |
| 16. | Caught Up In You | 38 Special | # 1 | 1 | 11 | 15 | 15 |
| 17. | Don't Let Him Know | Prism | # 1 | 1 | 11 | 14 | 17 |
| 18. | No One Like You | The Scorpions | # 1 | 1 | 10 | 17 | 18 |
| 19. | Stone Cold | Rainbow | # 1 | 1 | 9 | 14 | 15 |
| 20. | I'll Fall In Love Again | Sammy Hagar | # 2 | 3 | 11 | 15 | 17 |
| 21. | Shake It Up | The Cars | # 2 | 2 | 9 | 14 | 16 |
| 22. | Electricland | Bad Company | # 2 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 13 |
| 23. | Working For The Weekend | Loverboy | # 2 | 1 | 10 | 16 | 16 |
| 24. | Paperlate | Genesis | # 2 | 1 | 10 | 15 | 16 |
| 25. | Flying High | Ozzy Osbourne | # 2 | 1 | 7 | 14 | 18 |
| 26. | Keep The Fire Burnin' | REO Speedwagon | # 2 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 16 |
| 27. | Still In Saigon | The Charlie Daniels Band | # 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 11 |
| 28. | Shadows Of The Night | Pat Benatar | # 3 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 11 |
| 29. | Athena | The Who | # 3 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 17 |
| 30. | Hold Me | Fleetwood Mac | # 3 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 16 |
| 31. | Dancing In The Streets | Van Halen | # 3 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 15 |
| 32. | Burning Down One Side | Robert Plant | # 3 | 2 | 8 | 19 | 24 |
| 33. | Jack And Diane | John Cougar | # 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 |
| 34. | Fantasy | Aldo Nova | # 3 | 1 | 12 | 21 | 22 |
| 35. | Lonely Nights | Bryan Adams | # 3 | 1 | 9 | 12 | 16 |
| 36. | On The Loose | Saga | # 3 | 1 | 8 | 11 | 12 |
| 37. | I Ran | A Flock Of Seagulls | # 3 | 1 | 5 | 18 | 29 |
| 38. | Twilight Zone | Golden Earring | # 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 |
| 39. | I Don't Care | Phil Collins | # 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| 40. | Play The Game Tonight | Kansas | # 4 | 1 | 11 | 14 | 18 |
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