Summer Chart Flashback: Summer Albums 1981

For the fifteen weeks of Summer 1981, HERC counted twenty-five albums that made the Top 10 on Billboard's LP chart.  Not a single album stayed in the upper 5% of the chart every week from May 30th through September 5th but one put together a string of fourteen non-consecutive weeks.  Six different albums moved in and out of the top slot over the course of the Summer.  And then HERC's family moved from Illinois to Arizona in August and he started his sophomore year of high school a few weeks behind the other students.

<click on numerical ranking to read a review of the album>

#10

#9

#8

#7

#6
one week @ Number One

#5
one week @ Number One

#4
two weeks @ Number One

#3
three weeks @ Number One

#2
four weeks @ Number One

#1
four weeks @ Number One