List of Adult Contemporary top 10 singles in 1983 (U.S.)
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This is a list of songs that have charted in the top ten of the Billboard Adult Contemporary in 1983.
Top-ten singles[edit]
| Top ten
entry date |
Single | Artist(s) | Peak | Peak date | Weeks in
top ten |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singles from 1982 | |||||
| December 11 | "You and I" | Eddie Rabbitt & Crystal Gayle | 2 | January 15 | 11 |
| December 18 | "Africa" | Toto | 5 | January 22 | 9 |
| December 25 | "Baby, Come to Me" | Patti Austin & James Ingram | 1 | January 22 | 10 |
| "Two Less Lonely People in the World" | Air Supply | 4 | January 15 | 6 | |
| Singles from 1983 | |||||
| January 15 | "The Other Guy" | Little River Band | 6 | January 22 | 4 |
| "Heart to Heart" | Kenny Loggins | 3 | January 29 | 7 | |
| "Memory" | Barry Manilow | 8 | January 22 | 3 | |
| January 22 | "Heart of the Night" | Juice Newton | 4 | February 5 | 7 |
| "You Can't Hurry Love" | Phil Collins | 9 | January 29 | 3 | |
| January 29 | "Shame on the Moon" | Bob Seger | 1 | February 12 | 6 |
| February 5 | "You Are" | Lionel Richie | 1 | February 26 | 12 |
| "I'm Alive" | Neil Diamond | 4 | February 26 | 7 | |
| February 12 | "We've Got Tonight" | Kenny Rogers & Sheena Easton | 2 | February 26 | 9 |
| "All Right" | Christopher Cross | 3 | February 26 | 8 | |
| February 19 | "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" | Culture Club | 8 | February 26 | 4 |
| February 26 | "One on One" | Hall & Oates | 4 | April 9 | 10 |
| March 5 | "Make Love Stay" | Dan Fogelberg | 1 | April 9 | 10 |
| "It Might Be You" | Stephen Bishop | 1 | April 16 | 11 | |
| March 12 | "Shoot for the Moon" | Poco | 10 | March 12 | 2 |
| March 19 | "I've Got a Rock 'n' Roll Heart" | Eric Clapton | 6 | March 26 | 6 |
| March 26 | "Take the Short Way Home" | Dionne Warwick | 5 | April 16 | 6 |
| April 2 | "Some Kind of Friend" | Barry Manilow | 4 | April 30 | 7 |
| April 9 | "I Won't Hold You Back" | Toto | 1 | April 30 | 7 |
| April 16 | "Mornin'" | Al Jarreau | 2 | May 7 | 9 |
| April 23 | "Minimum Love" | Mac McAnally | 7 | April 30 | 4 |
| April 30 | "You Can't Run from Love" | Eddie Rabbitt | 2 | May 28 | 8 |
| "My Love" | Lionel Richie | 1 | May 21 | 8 | |
| May 7 | "Easy for You to Say" | Linda Ronstadt | 7 | May 21 | 4 |
| "Wind Beneath My Wings" | Lou Rawls | 10 | May 7 | 2 | |
| May 14 | "Overkill" | Men at Work | 6 | May 21 | 4 |
| May 21 | "Never Gonna Let You Go" | Sergio Mendes | 1 | June 18 | 13 |
| "All My Life" | Kenny Rogers | 2 | June 18 | 8 | |
| "Front Page Story" | Neil Diamond | 5 | June 11 | 7 | |
| May 28 | "Time (Clock of the Heart)" | Culture Club | 6 | June 11 | 6 |
| June 4 | "Flashdance...What a Feeling" | Irene Cara | 4 | June 25 | 9 |
| "That's Love" | Jim Capaldi | 3 | June 25 | 7 | |
| June 11 | "How Do You Keep the Music Playing" | James Ingram & Patti Austin | 5 | July 9 | 7 |
| June 25 | "All This Love" | DeBarge | 1 | July 16 | 9 |
| "l.O.U." | Lee Greenwood | 4 | July 23 | 7 | |
| July 2 | "The Closer You Get" | Alabama | 9 | July 9 | 3 |
| July 9 | "Try Again" | Champaign | 6 | July 23 | 5 |
| "Hold Me 'Til the Mornin' Comes" | Paul Anka | 2 | July 30 | 10 | |
| July 16 | "Every Breath You Take" | The Police | 5 | July 23 | 8 |
| July 23 | "All Time High" | Rita Coolidge | 1 | August 6 | 8 |
| July 30 | "The Border" | America | 4 | August 13 | 5 |
| August 6 | "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You" | Laura Branigan | 1 | September 3 | 10 |
| August 13 | "Human Nature" | Michael Jackson | 2 | September 3 | 8 |
| "Blame It on Love" | Smokey Robinson & Barbara Mitchell | 5 | August 27 | 5 | |
| August 20 | "Tell Her About It" | Billy Joel | 1 | September 24 | 9 |
| August 27 | "Making Love Out of Nothing at All" | Air Supply | 2 | October 1 | 10 |
| September 10 | "Lady Love Me (One More Time)" | George Benson | 4 | October 1 | 7 |
| September 17 | "True" | Spandau Ballet | 1 | October 8 | 9 |
| "Rainbow's End" | Sergio Mendes | 6 | October 1 | 4 | |
| "Islands in the Stream" | Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton | 1 | October 15 | 13 | |
| September 24 | "Tonight, I Celebrate My Love" | Peabo Bryson & Roberta Flack | 4 | October 22 | 10 |
| October 8 | "All Night Long (All Night)" | Lionel Richie | 1 | November 12 | 11 |
| "Total Eclipse of the Heart" | Bonnie Tyler | 7 | October 15 | 4 | |
| October 15 | "Spice of Life" | The Manhattan Transfer | 5 | October 29 | 6 |
| October 22 | "Uptown Girl" | Billy Joel | 2 | November 19 | 11 |
| November 5 | "How Many Times Can I Say Goodbye" | Dionne Warwick & Luther Vandross | 4 | November 19 | 4 |
| "Say Say Say" | Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson | 3 | December 17 | 11 | |
| "The Way He Makes Me Feel" | Barbra Streisand | 1 | December 10 | 12 | |
| November 12 | "Trouble in Paradise" | Al Jarreau | 10 | November 12 | 1 |
| November 19 | "Only You" | Commodores | 8 | November 26 | 3 |
| "Break My Stride" | Matthew Wilder | 4 | December 17 | 11 | |
| November 26 | "What's New" | Linda Ronstadt | 5 | December 3 | 8 |
| December 3 | "Read 'Em and Weep" | Barry Manilow | 1 | December 24 | 10 |
| "Say It Isn't So" | Hall & Oates | 8 | December 17 | 6 | |
| December 10 | "Baby I Lied" | Deborah Allen | 10 | December 10 | 2 |
| December 24 | "Make Believe It's Your First Time" | The Carpenters | 7 | December 24 | 3 |
1982 peaks[edit]
| Top ten
entry date |
Single | Artist(s) | Peak | Peak date | Weeks in
top ten |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 30 | "Heartbreaker" | Dionne Warwick | 1 | December 18 | 12 |
| November 6 | "Truly" | Lionel Richie | 1 | November 20 | 10 |
| November 20 | "The Girl Is Mine" | Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney | 1 | December 25 | 10 |
| "Steppin' Out" | Joe Jackson | 4 | December 11 | 8 | |
| December 4 | "It's Raining Again" | Supertramp | 5 | December 11 | 7 |
| December 11 | "I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World)" | Donald Fagen | 8 | December 11 | 5 |
1984 peaks[edit]
| Top ten
entry date |
Single | Artist(s) | Peak | Peak date | Weeks in
top ten |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 17 | "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues" | Elton John | 2 | January 14 | 10 |
| December 24 | "Take a Chance" | John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John | 3 | January 21 | 7 |
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