Billboard Decade End Chart: Billboard 200 (1980s)

~ Release group series

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#	Year	Title	Artist	Type	Rating	Releases
1	1982	Thriller	Michael Jackson	Album	4.45	75
2	1984	Born in the U.S.A.	Bruce Springsteen	Album	4.35	210
3	1980	Emotional Rescue	The Rolling Stones	Album	3.65	23
3	1985	Whitney Houston	Whitney Houston	Album	4.4	19
4	1987	Hysteria	Def Leppard	Album	4.75	35
5	1986	Slippery When Wet	Bon Jovi	Album	4	37
6	1981	4	Foreigner	Album	4.1	29
7	1981	Escape	Journey	Album	4.4	25
8	1983	Can’t Slow Down	Lionel Richie	Album	4	22
9	1987	Dirty Dancing: Original Soundtrack From the Vestron Motion Picture	Various Artists	Album + Compilation + Soundtrack	4.35	22
10	1980	Hi Infidelity	REO Speedwagon	Album	4	17
11	1987	Appetite for Destruction	Guns N’ Roses	Album	4.4	66
12	1986	Control	Janet Jackson	Album	4.35	45
13	1987	Faith	George Michael	Album	3.35	26
14	1979	Asia	Asia	Album		1
15	1981	Business As Usual	Men at Work	Album	4	22
16	1988	Don’t Be Cruel	Bobby Brown	Album		8
17	1985	Brothers in Arms	Dire Straits	Album	4.6	61
18	1979	The Wall	Pink Floyd	Album	4.5	85
19	1983	Synchronicity	The Police	Album	3.9	47
20	1985	Heart	Heart	Album	5	18
21	1987	The Joshua Tree	U2	Album	4.3	58
22	1984	Purple Rain	Prince and The Revolution	Album + Soundtrack	4.3	42
23	1983	Sports	Huey Lewis and the News	Album	4.65	30
24	1987	Whitesnake	Whitesnake	Album	4	31
25	1985	No Jacket Required	Phil Collins	Album	3.2	41
26	1987	Bad	Michael Jackson	Album	4.1	42
27	1982	American Fool	John Cougar	Album	4.75	16
28	1987	Whitney	Whitney Houston	Album	3.5	18
29	1980	Glass Houses	Billy Joel	Album	4	34
30	1984	Reckless	Bryan Adams	Album	4.5	123
31	1986	True Blue	Madonna	Album	4.2	28
32	1985	Songs From the Big Chair	Tears for Fears	Album	4.35	39
33	1984	Private Dancer	Tina Turner	Album	4	25
34	1981	Bella Donna	Stevie Nicks	Album	4.65	21
35	1981	Paradise Theatre	Styx	Album	4.55	21
36	1986	Invisible Touch	Genesis	Album	3.75	28
37	1985	Scarecrow	John Cougar Mellencamp	Album	3	15
38	1981	Tattoo You	The Rolling Stones	Album	4	36
39	1980	Crimes of Passion	Pat Benatar	Album	3.5	18
40	1983	Pyromania	Def Leppard	Album	4	35
41	1980	Against the Wind	Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band	Album	4	11
42	1988	Forever Your Girl	Paula Abdul	Album	3.25	8
43	1984	Like a Virgin	Madonna	Album	4.2	31
44	1988	Hangin’ Tough	New Kids on the Block	Album	3.5	6
45	1986	Top Gun: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	Various Artists	Album + Soundtrack	3.85	22
46	1986	Fore!	Huey Lewis and the News	Album	3	18
47	1980	Double Fantasy	John Lennon & Yoko Ono	Album	3.55	28
48	1981	Beauty and the Beat	The Go‐Go’s	Album	3	12
49	1981	Freeze‐Frame	The J. Geils Band	Album	3	12
50	1982	H₂O	Daryl Hall + John Oates	Album	3.5	17
51	1986	Graceland	Paul Simon	Album	4.35	45
52	1982	Mirage	Fleetwood Mac	Album	4.4	27
53	1981	Ghost in the Machine	The Police	Album	3.65	26
54	1980	Kenny Rogers’ Greatest Hits	Kenny Rogers	Album + Compilation		6
55	1983	An Innocent Man	Billy Joel	Album	4	20
56	1979	Christopher Cross	Christopher Cross	Album		17
57	1980	The Game	Queen	Album	4.15	37
58	1986	Licensed to Ill	Beastie Boys	Album	4.1	23
59	1988	The Raw & The Cooked	Fine Young Cannibals	Album	4	19
60	1980	Back in Black	AC/DC	Album	4.45	51
61	1984	Make It Big	Wham!	Album	4.4	17
62	1979	Off the Wall	Michael Jackson	Album	3.9	43
63	1986	The Way It Is	Bruce Hornsby and the Range	Album	4.25	68
64	1980	Guilty	Barbra Streisand	Album	3.65	15
65	1986	Third Stage	Boston	Album	3.8	22
66	1979	The Long Run	Eagles	Album	4	24
67	1981	Get Lucky	Loverboy	Album	3.5	7
68	1984	Heartbeat City	The Cars	Album	4.15	26
69	1983	Flashdance: Original Soundtrack From the Motion Picture	Various Artists	Album + Soundtrack		15
70	1985	Dancing on the Ceiling	Lionel Richie	Album	4	15
71	1984	1984	Van Halen	Album	3.7	33
72	1986	Music From Miami Vice	Various Artists	Album + Soundtrack		1
73	1982	Lionel Richie	Lionel Richie	Album	4.5	15
74	1979	Damn the Torpedoes	Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers	Album	3.85	28
75	1983	Colour by Numbers	Culture Club	Album	3	21
76	1988	New Jersey	Bon Jovi	Album	4.15	30
77	1982	Toto IV	Toto	Album	3.75	53
78	1986	5150	Van Halen	Album	3.9	22
79	1986	Raising Hell	Run‐D.M.C.	Album	4	23
80	1988	Girl You Know It's True	Milli Vanilli	Single	5	4
81	1986	Back in the High Life	Steve Winwood	Album	3	12
82	1985	Promise	Sade	Album	4.25	31
83	1982	Built for Speed	Stray Cats	Album	3.5	6
84	1987	Kick	INXS	Album	4.4	36
85	1985	The Broadway Album	Barbra Streisand	Album	4	10
86	1980	Zenyattà Mondatta	The Police	Album	3.6	36
87	1983	She’s So Unusual	Cyndi Lauper	Album	4.5	27
88	1984	Footloose: Original Soundtrack of the Paramount Motion Picture	Various Artists	Album + Soundtrack	4	16
89	1981	Chariots of Fire	Vangelis	Album + Soundtrack	3.35	16
90	1980	The Jazz Singer	Neil Diamond	Album + Soundtrack	4	14
91	1980	Diana	Diana Ross	Album	4.35	16
92	1988	Open Up and Say… Ahh!	Poison	Album	4	10
94	1986	Night Songs	Cinderella	Album	3.65	20
95	1983	Frontiers	Journey	Album	3.8	14
96	1984	Beverly Hills Cop: Music From the Motion Picture Soundtrack	Various Artists	Album + Compilation + Soundtrack	3.5	10
97	1986	So	Peter Gabriel	Album	4.5	45
98	1982	Always on My Mind	Willie Nelson	Album	2.5	8
99	1987	The Lonesome Jubilee	John Cougar Mellencamp	Album	3.5	11
100	1986	Look What the Cat Dragged In	Poison	Album	3.75	8

Billboard Decade End Chart: Billboard 200 (1980s)

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