Top 29 Music Albums of the 1980s
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- Chart updated: 01/29/2025 21:15
- (Created: 06/25/2012 04:38).
- Chart size: 29 albums.
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After hearing "Hold On Tight" on Casey Kasem's American Top 40 Mighty 690 AM Radio Show back in Summer 1981 while with family around Ventura, California, a U.S. Route 101 road trip to Santa Barbara's Mission when I was just 8 years old, Dad then bought me my very first Electric Light Orchestra album from Tower Records, an audio cassette of Time by ELO, thus started the fandom 38 years ago! 8-)
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Year of Release:
1981
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2,405
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Year of Release:
1986
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1,298
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1983
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1,195
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[First added to this chart: 06/24/2012]
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1981
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767
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1985
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945
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[First added to this chart: 06/24/2012]
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1982
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611
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[First added to this chart: 06/24/2012]
Year of Release:
1981
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1,305
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Buyer beware, please seek out its 1982 vinyl LP and audio cassette as all CDs of this album are re-recordings by Buckner & Garcia in 1999 because Sony Music Entertainment would not give the duo access to their original master record tapes or release a proper SME/BMG compact disc themselves!
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Top 29 Music Albums of the 1980s composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 1 | 3% | |
| 1981 | 5 | 17% | |
| 1982 | 5 | 17% | |
| 1983 | 2 | 7% | |
| 1984 | 1 | 3% | |
| 1985 | 4 | 14% | |
| 1986 | 4 | 14% | |
| 1987 | 2 | 7% | |
| 1988 | 4 | 14% | |
| 1989 | 1 | 3% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Electric Light Orchestra | 3 | 10% | |
| Genesis | 3 | 10% | |
| Phil Collins | 3 | 10% | |
| James Horner | 2 | 7% | |
| Buckner & Garcia | 1 | 3% | |
| Fleetwood Mac | 1 | 3% | |
| Olivia Newton-John & Electric Light Orchestra | 1 | 3% | |
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