Weekly Rock Top 20 for October 2, 1982 |
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| 4 | 1 | Dirty Laundry | ▲ | 2 |
| Don Henley |
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| 1 | 2 | New World Man | 1 | 26 |
| Rush |
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| 6 | 3 | Pressure | 1 | 9 |
| Billy Joel |
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| 5 | 4 | Rock The Casbah | 3 | 6 |
| The Clash |
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| 11 | 5 | Don't Fight It | ▲ | 6 |
| Kenny Loggins With Steve Perry |
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| 2 | 6 | Athena | 1 | 23 |
| The Who |
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| 12 | 7 | Steppin' Out | 2 | 2 |
| Joe Jackson |
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| 10 | 8 | Eminence Front | 3 |
| The Who |
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| 18 | 9 | Shock The Monkey | 1 | 26 |
| Peter Gabriel |
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| 14 | 10 | Valerie | 4 |
| Steve Winwood |
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| 7 | 11 | You Keep Runnin' Away | 6 | 20 |
| 38 Special |
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| 17 | 12 | Subdivisions | 2 |
| Rush |
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| 8 | 13 | Bad To The Bone | 6 |
| George Thorogood & The Destroyers |
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| 3 | 14 | Jack & Diane | 1 | 1 |
| John Cougar |
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| 13 | 15 | Eye In The Sky | 7 | 2 |
| The Alan Parsons Project |
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| - | 16 | The Analog Kid | ▲ |
| Rush |
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| 15 | 17 | Nowhere To Run | 10 |
| Santana |
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| 9 | 18 | Electricland | 3 |
| Bad Company |
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| - | 19 | You Are What You Is | ▲ |
| Frank Zappa |
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| 16 | 20 | Hold On | 9 | 9 |
| Santana |
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