List of Top 25 Albums For 1980 in Australia | List Top 25 Albums 1980 Australia

The following lists the top 25 (end of year) charting albums on the Australian Album Charts, for the year of 1980. These were the best charting albums in Australia for 1980. The source for this year is the "Kent Music Report", known from 1987 onwards as the "Australian Music Report".

#	Title	Artist	Highest pos. reached	weeks at No. 1
1.	"The Wall"	Pink Floyd	1	4
2.	"Glass Houses"	Billy Joel	2
3.	"True Colours"	Split Enz	1	10
4.	"East"	Cold Chisel	2
5.	"Off the Wall"	Michael Jackson	1	2
6.	"Stardust	Willie Nelson	5
7.	"The Rose"	Soundtrack / Bette Midler	3
8.	"The Boys Light Up	Australian Crawl	4
9.	"Can't Stop the Music"	Soundtrack / Village People	1	9
10.	"Regatta de Blanc"	The Police	1	2
11.	"Unmasked"	Kiss	3
12.	"Xanadu"	Motion Picture Soundtrack	1	6
13.	"The B-52's"	The B-52's	7
14.	"Back in Black"	AC/DC	1	1 (pkd #1 in 1981)
15.	"Dynasty"	Kiss	2
16.	"Night Rains"	Janis Ian	11
17.	"Tusk"	Fleetwood Mac	2
18.	"Scary Monsters"	David Bowie	1	5
19.	"Emotional Rescue"	Rolling Stones	4
20.	"Against the Wind"	Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band	6
21.	"Middle Man"	Boz Scaggs	11
22.	"Guilty"	Barbra Streisand	1	6
23.	"The Pretenders	The Pretenders	6
24.	"Give Me the Night"	George Benson	6
25.	"21 at 33"	Elton John	7

These charts are calculated by David Kent of the Kent Music Report and they are based on the number of weeks and position the records reach within the top 100 albums for each week.

source: David Kent's "Australian Chart Book 1970-1992"

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Albums	1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

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