| LW | TW | peaks: | rock | pop |
| 5 | 1 | Shock The Monkey | 1 | 26 |  |
| Peter Gabriel |
| 4 | 2 | New World Man | 1 | 26 | |
| Rush |
| 1 | 3 | Pressure | 1 | 9 | |
| Billy Joel |
| 3 | 4 | Rock The Casbah | 3 | 6 | |
| The Clash |
| 2 | 5 | Dirty Laundry | 1 | 2 | |
| Don Henley |
| 8 | 6 | Steppin' Out | 2 | 2 | |
| Joe Jackson |
| 14 | 7 | Subdivisions | 2 | |
| Rush |
| 9 | 8 | Athena | 1 | 23 | |
| The Who |
| 11 | 9 | Eminence Front | 3 | |
| The Who |
| 6 | 10 | You Keep Runnin' Away | 6 | 20 | |
| 38 Special |
| 17 | 11 | Atlantic City | 11 | |
| Bruce Springsteen |
| 10 | 12 | Valerie | 10 | 4 | |
| Steve Winwood |
| 18 | 13 | You Don't Want Me Anymore | 13 | 14 | |
| Steel Breeze |
| 15 | 14 | Electricland | 3 | |
| Bad Company |
| 13 | 15 | Nowhere To Run | 10 | |
| Santana |
| 12 | 16 | Jack & Diane | 1 | 1 | |
| John Cougar |
| - | 17 | Shadows Of The Night | 1 | 10 | |
| Pat Benatar |
| - | 18 | Learn How To Live | 13 | |
| Billy Squier |
| - | 19 | Rock This Town | 2 | 4 | |
| The Stray Cats |
| - | 20 | Lightning Strikes | 20 | |
| Aerosmith |
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