Soundtrack) – Various Artists (Mercury)Ģ6) Hotter Than July – Stevie Wonder (Tamla)Ģ5) Winelight – Grover Washington, Jr. You’ll notice we skipped a few now you can see why, beginning with #30.ģ0) The One That You Love – Air Supply (Arista)Ģ9) Share Your Love – Kenny Rogers (Liberty)Ģ7) Endless Love (Orig. Steely Dan‘s seventh album, Gaucho, was released just in time for the prior year’s holiday season, and it continued to sell well enough to rank as the 28th best-selling title of ’81, thanks to rock radio airplay and the Top 10 success of “Hey Nineteen.” (Note: Many of them were released in 1980, with big sales carrying over into ’81.)
The chart, compiled by the former music industry trade magazine, Record World, features several gargantuan sellers among the year’s Top 30. Recordings made by some of the biggest classic rock artists of the era dominated the list of 1981’s top-selling albums in the U.S. MTV had launched on August 1 and though the network was not yet available in most homes, rock music was readily available on AOR radio stations and the genre was still prevalent on Top 40. Though they were often criticized as “corporate rock” acts they, in fact, had been paying their dues for years, graduating from clubs to theaters to opening slots on arena tours to eventually headlining their own tours before audiences of 15,000+ per night. In 1981, many established bands were criss-crossing the States before eager concert crowds.
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