The following lists the top 25 (end of year) charting albums on the Australian Album Charts, for the year of 1980. These were the best charting albums in Australia for 1980. The source for this year is the "Kent Music Report", known from 1987 onwards as the "Australian Music Report".
| Title | Artist | Highest pos. reached | weeks at No. 1 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | The Wall | 1 | 4 | ||
| 2. | Glass Houses | 2 | |||
| 3. | True Colours | 1 | 10 | ||
| 4. | East | 2 | |||
| 5. | Off the Wall | 1 | 2 | ||
| 6. | Stardust | 5 | |||
| 7. | The Rose | 3 | |||
| 8. | The Boys Light Up | 4 | |||
| 9. | Can't Stop the Music | 1 | 9 | ||
| 10. | Regatta de Blanc | 1 | 2 | ||
| 11. | Unmasked | 3 | |||
| 12. | Xanadu | Motion Picture Soundtrack | 1 | 6 | |
| 13. | The B-52's | 7 | |||
| 14. | Back in Black | 1 | 1 (pkd #1 in 1981) | ||
| 15. | Dynasty | 2 | |||
| 16. | Night Rains | 11 | |||
| 17. | Tusk | 2 | |||
| 18. | Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) | 1 | 5 | ||
| 19. | Emotional Rescue | 4 | |||
| 20. | Against the Wind | Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band | 6 | ||
| 21. | Middle Man | 11 | |||
| 22. | Guilty | 1 | 6 | ||
| 23. | Pretenders | 6 | |||
| 24. | Give Me the Night | 6 | |||
| 25. | 21 at 33 | 7 |
These charts are calculated by David Kent of the Kent Music Report and they are based on the number of weeks and position the records reach within the top 100 albums for each week.