List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1983

Template:Short description Template:Italic title These are the Billboard Hot 100 number one hits of 1983. The longest running number-one single of 1983 is "Every Breath You Take" by the Police at eight weeks.

That year, 9 acts reached number one for the first time: Toto, Patti Austin, James Ingram, Dexys Midnight Runners, Irene Cara, The Police, Eurythmics, Michael Sembello, and Bonnie Tyler. Michael Jackson was the only act to hit number one more than once, with three.

Chart history

The Police scored a number-one hit with "Every Breath You Take" for eight straight weeks.

Key

The yellow background indicates the #1 song on BillboardTemplate:'s 1983 Year-End Chart of Pop Singles.

An asterisk (*) by a date indicates an unpublished, "frozen" week, due to the special double issues that Billboard published in print at the end of the year for their year-end charts.

Template:Abbr	Issue date	Song	Artist(s)	Template:Abbr
526	January 1*	"Maneater"	Daryl Hall and John Oates	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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527	January 15	"Down Under"	Men at Work	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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528	February 5	"Africa"	Toto	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
re	February 12	"Down Under"	Men at Work	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
529	February 19	"Baby, Come to Me"	Patti Austin and James Ingram	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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530	March 5	"Billie Jean"	Michael Jackson	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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531	April 23	"Come On Eileen"	Dexys Midnight Runners	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
532	April 30	"Beat It"	Michael Jackson	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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533	May 21	"Let's Dance"	David Bowie	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
534	May 28	"Flashdance... What a Feeling"	Irene Cara	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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535	July 9	"Every Breath You Take"	The Police	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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536	September 3	"Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"	Eurythmics	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
537	September 10	"Maniac"	Michael Sembello	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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538	September 24	"Tell Her About It"	Billy Joel	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
539	October 1	"Total Eclipse of the Heart"	Bonnie Tyler	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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540	October 29	"Islands in the Stream"	Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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541	November 12	"All Night Long (All Night)"	Lionel Richie	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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542	December 10	"Say Say Say"	Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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Number-one artists

List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one

Position	Artist	Weeks at No. 1
1	Michael Jackson	14
2	The Police	8
3	Irene Cara	6
4	Men at Work	4
	Bonnie Tyler
	Lionel Richie
	Paul McCartney
8	Daryl Hall and John Oates	2
	Patti Austin
	James Ingram
	Michael Sembello
	Kenny Rogers
	Dolly Parton
14	Toto	1
	Dexys Midnight Runners
	David Bowie
	Eurythmics
	Billy Joel

See also

• 1983 in music
• List of Cash Box Top 100 number-one singles of 1983
• List of Billboard number-one singles
• List of number-one R&B singles of 1983 (U.S.)
• List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of the 1980s

Sources

• Fred Bronson's Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, 5th Edition (Template:ISBN)
• Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2008, 12 Edition (Template:ISBN)
• Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Eighties (Template:ISBN)
• Additional information obtained can be verified within BillboardTemplate:'s online archive services and print editions of the magazine.