| 1 | Glass Houses | Billy Joel | |
| 2 | Just One Night | Eric Clapton | |
| 3 | McCartney II | Paul McCartney | |
| 4 | Against The Wind | Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band | |
| 5 | The Empire Strikes Back | Soundtrack | |
| 6 | Empty Glass | Pete Townshend | |
| 7 | Let's Get Serious | Jermaine Jackson | |
| 8 | Heroes | Commodores | |
| 9 | Mouth To Mouth | Lipps, Inc. | |
| 10 | The Wall | Pink Floyd | |
| 11 | Urban Cowboy | Soundtrack | |
| 12 | Duke | Genesis | |
| 13 | Scream Dream | Ted Nugent | |
| 14 | Diana | Diana Ross | |
| 15 | Middle Man | Boz Scaggs | |
| 16 | Off The Wall | Michael Jackson | |
| 17 | Trilogy: Past Present And Future | Frank Sinatra | |
| 18 | 21 At 33 | Elton John | |
| 19 | The Rose | Soundtrack | |
| 20 | Women And Children First | Van Halen | |
| 21 | Christopher Cross | Christopher Cross | |
| 22 | Sweet Sensation | Stephanie Mills | |
| 23 | Go To Heaven | Grateful Dead | |
| 24 | Pretenders | Pretenders | |
| 25 | One For The Road | The Kinks | |
| 26 | One Eighty | Ambrosia | |
| 27 | After Midnight | Manhattans | |
| 28 | Roses In The Snow | Emmylou Harris | |
| 29 | Mad Love | Linda Ronstadt | |
| 30 | Gideon | Kenny Rogers | |
| 31 | Departure | Journey | |
| 32 | Go All The Way | The Isley Brothers | |
| 33 | The Blues Brothers | Soundtrack | |
| 34 | Heaven And Hell | Black Sabbath | |
| 35 | The Glow Of Love | Change | |
| 36 | British Steel | Judas Priest | |
| 37 | Peter Gabriel (Melt) | Peter Gabriel | |
| 38 | In The Heat Of The Night | Pat Benatar | |
| 39 | Music Man | Waylon Jennings | |
| 40 | The Up Escalator | Graham Parker & The Rumour | |
| 41 | Firin' Up | Pure Prairie League | |
| 42 | Damn The Torpedoes | Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers | |
| 43 | Cameosis | Cameo | |
| 44 | Flush The Fashion | Alice Cooper | |
| 45 | Dancing In The Dragon's Jaws | Bruce Cockburn | |
| 46 | Power | The Temptations | |
| 47 | Kiss Unmasked | Kiss | |
| 48 | Naughty | Chaka Khan | |
| 49 | Me Myself I | Joan Armatrading | |
| 50 | About Love | Gladys Knight & The Pips | |
