Top 50 Music Albums of 1980 by covecove (2019)

• Chart updated: 06/02/2019 20:45
• (Created: 09/19/2012 04:12).
• Chart size: 50 albums.

• Summary
• Composition
• Ratings
• Favourites
• Comments
• Your feedback

There are 0 comments for this chart from BestEverAlbums.com members and Top 50 Music Albums of 1980 has an average rating of 83 out of 100 (from 2 votes). Please log in or register to leave a comment or assign a rating.

View the complete list of 39,000 charts on BestEverAlbums.com from The Charts page.

Share this chart

Share | |

| RSS feed: | Download CSV file: Log in / register
URL to this chart: |

Sort by

• Overall Rank
• Number of Charts
• Average Rating
• Number of Ratings
• Release Date
• Title
• Artist
• Date Added

1. (=)

Remain In Light

 Talking Heads

(First added to this chart: 10/22/2012)

Buy album

• 
• 
• 
• 

Year of Release:

1980

Appears in:

1,546 charts

Rank Score:

48,128

Rank in 1980:

1

Rank in 1980s:

5

Overall Rank:

39

Average Rating:

 87 (1,783 votes)

Comments:

148

2. (=)

Closer

 Joy Division

(First added to this chart: 10/22/2012)

Buy album

• 
• 
• 
• 

Year of Release:

1980

Appears in:

1,204 charts

Rank Score:

33,935

Rank in 1980:

2

Rank in 1980s:

8

Overall Rank:

67

Average Rating:

 86 (1,567 votes)

Comments:

96

3. (=)

Peter Gabriel III

 Peter Gabriel

(First added to this chart: 03/02/2015)

Buy album

• 
• 
• 
• 

Year of Release:

1980

Appears in:

379 charts

Rank Score:

6,195

Rank in 1980:

7

Rank in 1980s:

61

Overall Rank:

447

Average Rating:

 82 (418 votes)

Comments:

19

4. (=)

Los Angeles

 X

(First added to this chart: 01/24/2013)

Buy album

• 
• 
• 
• 

Year of Release:

1980

Appears in:

237 charts

Rank Score:

2,138

Rank in 1980:

23

Rank in 1980s:

186

Overall Rank:

1,180

Average Rating:

 78 (273 votes)

Comments:

13

5. (=)

Crazy Rhythms

 The Feelies

(First added to this chart: 10/22/2012)

Buy album

• 
• 
• 
• 

Year of Release:

1980

Appears in:

280 charts

Rank Score:

3,780

Rank in 1980:

14

Rank in 1980s:

104

Overall Rank:

689

Average Rating:

 79 (345 votes)

Comments:

13

6. (7) 1

Back In Black

 AC/DC

(First added to this chart: 10/22/2012)

Buy album

• 
• 
• 
• 

Year of Release:

1980

Appears in:

1,007 charts

Rank Score:

25,583

Rank in 1980:

3

Rank in 1980s:

14

Overall Rank:

100

Average Rating:

 80 (1,556 votes)

Comments:

114

7. (6) 1

Underwater Moonlight

 The Soft Boys

(First added to this chart: 03/03/2013)

Buy album

• 
• 
• 
• 

Year of Release:

1980

Appears in:

149 charts

Rank Score:

1,437

Rank in 1980:

40

Rank in 1980s:

260

Overall Rank:

1,628

Average Rating:

 78 (172 votes)

Comments:

9

8. (9) 1

Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)

 David Bowie

(First added to this chart: 10/22/2012)

Buy album

• 
• 
• 
• 

Year of Release:

1980

Appears in:

551 charts

Rank Score:

7,091

Rank in 1980:

5

Rank in 1980s:

50

Overall Rank:

391

Average Rating:

 81 (840 votes)

Comments:

43

9. (8) 1

Colossal Youth

 Young Marble Giants

(First added to this chart: 02/11/2013)

Buy album

• 
• 
• 
• 

Year of Release:

1980

Appears in:

199 charts

Rank Score:

2,119

Rank in 1980:

25

Rank in 1980s:

189

Overall Rank:

1,189

Average Rating:

 79 (200 votes)

Comments:

14

10. (=)

The River

 Bruce Springsteen

(First added to this chart: 10/22/2012)

Buy album

• 
• 
• 
• 

Year of Release:

1980

Appears in:

464 charts

Rank Score:

7,082

Rank in 1980:

6

Rank in 1980s:

51

Overall Rank:

392

Average Rating:

 79 (685 votes)

Comments:

32

• « prev
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• next »

Total albums: 50. Page 1 of 5

Don't agree with this chart? Create your own from the My Charts page!

Top 50 Music Albums of 1980 composition

Artist	Albums	%
Dead Kennedys	1	2%
Joy Division	1	2%
The Clash	1	2%
Albert Collins	1	2%
Kate Bush	1	2%
Pete Townshend	1	2%
Peter Gabriel	1	2%
Show all

Country	Albums	%
	25	50%
	19	38%
	2	4%
	1	2%
	1	2%
	1	2%
	1	2%

Top 50 Music Albums of 1980 chart changes

Biggest climbers
Up 1 from 9th to 8th Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) by David Bowie
Up 1 from 7th to 6th Back In Black by AC/DC

Biggest fallers
Down 1 from 6th to 7th Underwater Moonlight by The Soft Boys
Down 1 from 8th to 9th Colossal Youth by Young Marble Giants

Top 50 Music Albums of 1980 similarity to your chart(s)

Other year charts (from the 1980s) by covecove

covecove

covecove

covecove

covecove

covecove

covecove

covecove

covecove

covecove

Top 50 Music Albums of 1980 ratings

Average Rating = (n ÷ (n + m)) × av + (m ÷ (n + m)) × AV
where:
av = trimmed mean average rating an item has currently received.
n = number of ratings an item has currently received.
m = minimum number of ratings required for an item to appear in a 'top-rated' chart (currently 10).
AV = the site mean average rating.

Showing all 2 ratings for this chart.

Sort ratings

• Rating
• Date logged
• Member

Rating	Date logged	Member	Num. chart ratings	Avg. chart rating
85/100	11/12/2013 23:56	sssvnnn	2,476 ratings	82/100
85/100	10/28/2012 02:38	MrDrProfSean	10 ratings	65/100

Related links: top charts.

Please log in or register if you want to be able to leave a rating.

Top 50 Music Albums of 1980 comments

Please log in or register if you want to be able to add a comment.

Your feedback for Top 50 Music Albums of 1980

Let us know what you think of this chart by adding a comment or assigning a rating below!