List of Top Country LPs number ones of 1982 explained

Top Country Albums is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music albums in the United States, published by Billboard. In 1982, six different albums topped the chart, which was at the time published under the title Top Country LPs, based on sales reports submitted by a representative sample of stores nationwide.[1]

Willie Nelson and the band Alabama dominated the top of the chart in 1982; both acts spent more than 20 weeks at number one, and only four of the year's 52 issues did not feature one of the two acts in the top spot. In the issue of Billboard dated January 2, Alabama was at number one with Feels So Right. The album had already spent 17 weeks atop the chart in 1981 and would continue to return to number one in the first half of 1982, going on to achieve a final total of 28 weeks at number one, a new record for the country albums chart.[2] Three weeks after Feels So Right was displaced from the top spot, the band was back at number one with its next album, Mountain Music. That album went on to spend 14 weeks at number one in 1982, the most by any LP during the year, and would add a further 14 the following year to equal the band's own record of 28 weeks atop the chart with an album. Alabama would go on to become the most successful country act of the 1980s,[3] with ten number one LPs during the decade, a run interrupted only by the seasonal album Christmas in 1985.[4] Mountain Music was the band's best-selling LP, selling over 5 million copies.[5]

Nelson spent a single week at number one in January with the compilation Greatest Hits (& Some That Will Be) and then returned to the top spot in May with Always on My Mind, which spent 22 non-consecutive weeks atop the chart. Although it consisted largely of cover versions of pop classics rather than original material, the latter album was hugely successful, selling over four million copies and being honored as Album of the Year by the Country Music Association.[6] It was the longest-running of Nelson's 13 career number ones, spending twice as long atop the chart as any of his other chart-toppers.[7] Only two other acts reached number one in 1982. The Oak Ridge Boys spent three weeks in the top spot in the spring with Bobbie Sue, and in November Ricky Skaggs topped the chart for a single week with Highways & Heartaches. It was the first of four chart-topping albums for Skaggs, all of which occurred in a four-year portion of a career that has spanned from the late 1950s into the 21st century.[8] [9]

Chart history

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scope=rowFeels So Right Alabama[10]
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scope=rowGreatest Hits (& Some That Will Be) [12]
scope=rowFeels So Right Alabama[13]
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scope=rowBobbie Sue [22]
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scope=rowMountain Music Alabama[25]
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scope=rowAlways on My Mind [30]
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scope=rowMountain Music Alabama[32]
scope=rowAlways on My Mind [33]
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scope=rowMountain Music Alabama[35]
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scope=rowAlways on My Mind [38]
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scope=rowHighways & Heartaches [56]
scope=rowMountain Music Alabama[57]
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Notes and References

  1. Book: Whitburn, Joel. Joel Whitburn Presents Hot Country Albums: Billboard 1964 to 2007. Record Research, Incorporated. 2008. 9780898201734. 6.
  2. Book: Whitburn, Joel. Joel Whitburn Presents Hot Country Albums: Billboard 1964 to 2007. Record Research, Incorporated. 2008. 9780898201734. 333 - 335.
  3. Web site: Alabama Biography & History. Stephen Thomas. Erlewine. AllMusic. March 18, 2020.
  4. Book: Whitburn, Joel. Joel Whitburn Presents Hot Country Albums: Billboard 1964 to 2007. Record Research, Incorporated. 2008. 9780898201734. 6.
  5. Web site: The 50 best-selling music artists of all time, ranked by platinum albums. Business Insider. John. Lynch. November 25, 2018. March 20, 2020.
  6. Web site: Always on My Mind  - Willie Nelson. Stephen Thomas. Erlewine. AllMusic. March 20, 2020.
  7. Book: Whitburn, Joel. Joel Whitburn Presents Hot Country Albums: Billboard 1964 to 2007. Record Research, Incorporated. 2008. 9780898201734. 175 - 176.
  8. Book: Whitburn, Joel. Joel Whitburn Presents Hot Country Albums: Billboard 1964 to 2007. Record Research, Incorporated. 2008. 9780898201734. 228.
  9. Web site: Ricky Skaggs Biography & History. David. Vinopal. AllMusic. March 20, 2020.
  10. Country Albums chart for January 2, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  11. Country Albums chart for January 9, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  12. Country Albums chart for January 16, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  13. Country Albums chart for January 23, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  14. Country Albums chart for January 30, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  15. Country Albums chart for February 6, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  16. Country Albums chart for February 13, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  17. Country Albums chart for February 20, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  18. Country Albums chart for February 27, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  19. Country Albums chart for March 6, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  20. Country Albums chart for March 13, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  21. Country Albums chart for March 20, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  22. Country Albums chart for March 27, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  23. Country Albums chart for April 3, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  24. Country Albums chart for April 10, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  25. Country Albums chart for April 17, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  26. Country Albums chart for April 24, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  27. Country Albums chart for May 1, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  28. Country Albums chart for May 8, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  29. Country Albums chart for May 15, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  30. Country Albums chart for May 22, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  31. Country Albums chart for May 29, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  32. Country Albums chart for June 5, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  33. Country Albums chart for June 12, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  34. Country Albums chart for June 19, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  35. Country Albums chart for June 26, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  36. Country Albums chart for July 3, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  37. Country Albums chart for July 10, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  38. Country Albums chart for July 17, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  39. Country Albums chart for July 24, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  40. Country Albums chart for July 31, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  41. Country Albums chart for August 7, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  42. Country Albums chart for August 14, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  43. Country Albums chart for August 21, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  44. Country Albums chart for August 28, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  45. Country Albums chart for September 4, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  46. Country Albums chart for September 11, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  47. Country Albums chart for September 18, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  48. Country Albums chart for September 25, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  49. Country Albums chart for October 2, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  50. Country Albums chart for October 9, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  51. Country Albums chart for October 16, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  52. Country Albums chart for October 23, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  53. Country Albums chart for October 30, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  54. Country Albums chart for November 6, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  55. Country Albums chart for November 13, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  56. Country Albums chart for November 20, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  57. Country Albums chart for November 27, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  58. Country Albums chart for December 4, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  59. Country Albums chart for December 11, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  60. Country Albums chart for December 18, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  61. Country Albums chart for December 25, 1982. Billboard. March 19, 2020.

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