List of Top Country LPs number ones of 1983 explained

Top Country Albums is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music albums in the United States, published by Billboard. In 1983, four 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]

The top of the chart was dominated in 1983 by the band Alabama, which spent 35 weeks at number one during the course of the year. At the start of the year the band held the top spot with its album Mountain Music, which had already spent 14 weeks at number one the previous year and added a further 14 in 1983. Its total of 28 weeks atop the country albums listing tied the record set by the band with its previous album Feels So Right in 1982.[2] One week after Mountain Music was displaced from number one, the band was back in the top spot with its next album, The Closer You Get..., which spent 21 weeks atop the chart. 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]

Two albums not by Alabama reached the top spot during the year. The first was Pancho & Lefty, a collaborative LP by two of country's most successful solo artists, Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson,[6] which first topped the chart for a single week in April, interrupting what would otherwise have been a continuous run at number one by Alabama from the start of the year into July. It made four returns to the top of the chart, each time displacing Alabama's The Closer You Get..., for an eventual total of eight weeks at number one. In the issue of Billboard dated October 29, Kenny Rogers reached number one with Eyes That See in the Dark, which retained the top spot for the remainder of the year. The album relied heavily on the songwriting of Barry Gibb of the pop group the Bee Gees, who was also involved in its production, and was strongly pop-music influenced.[7] [8] It featured the track "Islands in the Stream", a duet with Dolly Parton, which reached number one on the all-genres Billboard Hot 100,[9] [10] and in 2005 topped a poll run by country music television channel CMT of the best country duets of all time.[11] Every act that reached number one on the country LPs listing in 1983 has been inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame; Nelson was the first to be inducted,[12] in 1993, followed by Haggard in 1994,[13] Alabama in 2005,[14] and Rogers in 2013.[15]

Chart history

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scope=rowMountain Music Alabama[16]
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scope=rowPancho & Lefty and Willie Nelson[30]
scope=rowThe Closer You Get... Alabama[31]
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scope=rowPancho & Lefty and Willie Nelson[43]
scope=rowThe Closer You Get... Alabama[44]
scope=rowPancho & Lefty and Willie Nelson[45]
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scope=rowThe Closer You Get... Alabama[47]
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scope=rowPancho & Lefty and Willie Nelson[51]
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scope=rowThe Closer You Get... Alabama[54]
scope=rowPancho & Lefty and Willie Nelson[55]
scope=rowThe Closer You Get... Alabama[56]
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scope=rowEyes That See in the Dark [59]
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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: Pancho & Lefty  - Willie Nelson/Merle Haggard. AllMusic. Martin. Monkman. March 23, 2020.
  7. Web site: Eyes That See in the Dark  - Kenny Rogers. Joe. Viglione. AllMusic. March 23, 2020.
  8. Web site: Kenny Rogers: the genre gambler who always came up trumps. The Guardian. Alexis. Petridis. March 21, 2020. March 23, 2020.
  9. Book: Hoffmann, Frank. Chronology of American Popular Music, 1900-2000. Routledge. 2016. 9781135868857. March 3, 2018.
  10. Flashback: Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers Take 'Islands in the Stream' to New Heights. Rolling Stone. October 29, 2014. March 3, 2018.
  11. Web site: "Islands in the Stream" Named Greatest Country Duet. CMT. Craig. Shelburne. June 9, 2005. https://web.archive.org/web/20180303225058/http://www.cmt.com/news/1503826/islands-in-the-stream-named-greatest-country-duet/. March 3, 2018. 2018-03-03.
  12. Web site: Willie Nelson  - Country Music Hall of Fame. Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. March 23, 2020.
  13. Web site: Merle Haggard  - Country Music Hall of Fame. Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. March 23, 2020.
  14. Web site: Alabama  - Country Music Hall of Fame. Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. March 23, 2020.
  15. Web site: Kenny Rogers  - Country Music Hall of Fame. Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. March 23, 2020.
  16. Country Albums chart for January 1, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  17. Country Albums chart for January 8, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  18. Country Albums chart for January 15, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  19. Country Albums chart for January 22, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  20. Country Albums chart for January 29, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  21. Country Albums chart for February 5, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  22. Country Albums chart for February 12, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  23. Country Albums chart for February 19, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  24. Country Albums chart for February 26, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  25. Country Albums chart for March 5, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  26. Country Albums chart for March 12, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  27. Country Albums chart for March 19, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  28. Country Albums chart for March 26, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  29. Country Albums chart for April 2, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  30. Country Albums chart for April 9, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  31. Country Albums chart for April 16, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  32. Country Albums chart for April 23, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  33. Country Albums chart for April 30, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  34. Country Albums chart for May 7, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  35. Country Albums chart for May 14, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  36. Country Albums chart for May 21, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  37. Country Albums chart for May 28, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  38. Country Albums chart for June 4, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  39. Country Albums chart for June 1, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  40. Country Albums chart for June 18, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  41. Country Albums chart for June 25, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  42. Country Albums chart for July 2, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  43. Country Albums chart for July 9, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  44. Country Albums chart for July 16, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  45. Country Albums chart for July 23, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  46. Country Albums chart for July 30, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  47. Country Albums chart for August 6, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  48. Country Albums chart for August 13, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  49. Country Albums chart for August 20, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  50. Country Albums chart for August 27, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  51. Country Albums chart for September 3, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  52. Country Albums chart for September 10, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  53. Country Albums chart for September 17, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  54. Country Albums chart for September 24, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  55. Country Albums chart for October 1, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  56. Country Albums chart for October 8, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  57. Country Albums chart for October 15, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  58. Country Albums chart for October 22, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  59. Country Albums chart for October 29, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  60. Country Albums chart for November 5, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  61. Country Albums chart for November 12, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  62. Country Albums chart for November 19, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  63. Country Albums chart for November 26, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  64. Country Albums chart for December 3, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  65. Country Albums chart for December 10, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  66. Country Albums chart for December 17, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  67. Country Albums chart for December 24, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.
  68. Country Albums chart for December 31, 1983. Billboard. March 19, 2020.

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