The following lists the top 25 (end of year) charting albums on the Australian Album Charts, for the year of 1982. These were the best charting albums in Australia for 1982. 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. | Business as Usual | 1 | 9 (pkd #1 in 1981 & 82) | ||
| 2. | Dare | 3 | |||
| 3. | Chariots of Fire | 5 | |||
| 4. | Days of Innocence | 1 | 7 | ||
| 5. | Avalon | 1 | 3 | ||
| 6. | Circus Animals | 1 | 1 | ||
| 7. | Tug of War | 2 | |||
| 8. | Time and Tide | 1 | 2 | ||
| 9. | Mirage | 2 | |||
| 10. | The Concert in Central Park | 5 | |||
| 11. | Sons of Beaches | 1 | 5 | ||
| 12. | Love Over Gold | 1 | 15 (pkd #1 in 1982 & 83) | ||
| 13. | 1982 with a Bullet | Various Artists | 1 | 5 | |
| 14. | The Best of Blondie | 1 | 2 | ||
| 15. | 4 | 3 | |||
| 16. | Duran Duran | 9 | |||
| 17. | 3 | ||||
| 18. | Primitive Man | 3 | |||
| 19. | Eye in the Sky | 4 | |||
| 20. | Tattoo You | 1 | 11 (pkd #1 in 1981) | ||
| 21. | Physical | 3 | |||
| 22. | Night and Day | 5 | |||
| 23. | Greatest Hits | 2 | |||
| 24. | Rio | 1 | 1 | ||
| 25. | Jump Up! | 3 |
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.[1]