1980 Year End Charts

Top Songs of 1980
Rank	Song	Artist	Plays
1	Comfortably Numb	Pink Floyd	111
2	You Shook Me All Night Long	AC/DC	110
3	The Rose	Bette Midler	107
4	Woman in Love	Barbra Streisand	97
5	Sailing	Christopher Cross	95
6	Back in Black	AC/DC	94
7	Take the Long Way Home	Supertramp	93
8	Redemption Song	Bob Marley & the Wailers	88
9	Atomic	Blondie	84
10	Another Brick in the Wall pt. 2	Pink Floyd	80
11	Take it on the Run	REO Speedwagon	80
12	No More Tears	Barbra Streisand, Donna Summer	79
13	Child of Vision	Supertramp	79
14	Hells Bells	AC/DC	78
15	The Eternal	Joy Division	75
16	Anyway You Want It	Journey	74
17	Machine Messiah	Yes	71
18	Theme From New York New York	Frank Sinatra	68
19	Ashes to Ashes	David Bowie	68
20	Ghost Riders in the Sky	The Outlaws	67
21	The Love Inside	Barbra Streidand	67
22	What I Like About You	The Romantics	66
23	Call Me	Blondie	65
24	Crazy Little Thing Called Love	Queen	65
25	Hey You	Pink Floyd	65
26	Hit Me With Your Best Shot	Pat Benatar	64
27	Into the Night	Benny Maradones	64
28	I'm Alright	Kenny Loggins	63
29	Pilot of the Airwaves	Charlie Dore	61
30	Happy Birthday	Stevie Wonder	60
31	Shoot to Thrill	AC/DC	60
32	Beautiful Boy	John Lennon	59
33	Ride Like the Wind	Christopher Cross	59
34	Pimper's Paradise	Bob Marley & the Wailers	58
35	Born Under Punches	Talking Heads	57
36	Kid	Pretenders	57
37	Duke's Travels	Genesis	56
38	The Spirit of Radio	Rush	54
39	Volcano	Jimmy Buffett	54
40	What Do You Do For Money	AC/DC	54
41	Guilty	Barbra Streisand, Barry Gibb	52
42	Drivin' My Life Away	Eddie Rabbit	52
43	The Gold Bug	The Alan Parsons Project	51
44	Mother	Pink Floyd	51
45	Cars	Gary Numan	50
46	Holiday	Scorpions	49
47	Video Killed the Radio Star	The Buggles	49
48	I'm Gonna Crawl	Led Zeppelin	47
49	Man of Our Times	Genesis	46
50	The Zoo	Scorpions	46
1980
Top Albums
Rank	Album	Artist	Units (M)
1	Back in Black	AC/DC	6.8
2	The Wall	Pink Floyd	6.6
3	Remain in Light	Talking Heads	3.8
4	Duke	Genesis	3.2
5	Uprising	Bob Marley & the Wailers	3.0
6	Double Fantasy	John Lennon	2.9
7	Guilty	Barbra Streisand	2.6
8	Closer	Joy Division	2.5
9	Winter Moon	Art Pepper	2.2
10	Christopher Cross	Christopher Cross	2.1
Top Books
Rank	Book	Author	Units (M)
1	The NeverEnding Story	Michale Ende	2.7
2	The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt	Edmund Morris	2.4
3	The Stranger Beside Me	Ann Rule	2.3
4	Godel, Escher, Bach	Douglas Hofstadter	2.0
5	The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories	Angela Carter	1.9
6	The Lords of Discipline	Pat Conroy	1.9
7	Firestarter	Stephen King	1.7
8	Metaphors We Live By	George Lakhoff, Mark Johnson	1.6
9	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams	1.6
10	The Executioner's Song	Norman Mailer	1.5
Top Movies
Rank	Movie		Units (M)
1	The Empire Strikes Back		16.4
2	Stalker		11.3
3	Kramer vs. Kramer		10.5
4	The Shining		10.4
5	Who's Singin' Over There?		9.9
6	Being There		9.7
7	Airplane!		9.4
8	All That Jazz		9.4
9	Breaker Morant		8.9
10	The Elephant Man		8.3