Top 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 - October 23 1982

this was really close until i read the last option

all other songs cower before the majesty of "love come down"

otm

Equivalent UK chart for same week. Beatles I understand, 20th anniversary, but not sure why The Animals are back.

1 Culture Club Do You Really Want To Hurt Me
2 Kid Creole & The Coconuts Annie I'm Not Your Daddy
3 Kids From 'Fame' Starmaker
4 Eddy Grant I Don't Wanna Dance
5 Tears For Fears Mad World
6 Beatles Love Me Do
7 Spandau Ballet Lifeline
8 Musical Youth Pass The Dutchie
9 Barry Manilow I Wanna Do It With You
10 Chicago Hard To Say I'm Sorry
11 Dionne Warwick Heartbreaker
12 Fat Larry's Band Zoom
13 Kool & The Gang Ooh La La La (Let's Go Dancin')
14 Shakin' Stevens I'll Be Satisfied
15 Ultravox Reap The Wild Wind
16 Bauhaus Ziggy Stardust
17 Melba Moore Love's Comin' At Ya
18 Animals House Of The Rising Sun
19 Pinkees Danger Games
20 Status Quo Caroline (Live At The NEC)
21 Pretenders Back On The Chain Gang
22 Kevin Rowland & Dexy's Midnight Runners Jackie Wilson Said

the first two cassettes i ever bought are featured on this billboard list

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The Kool & the Gang and Michael Martin Murphey are forgotten by time.

Throwing Abracadabra a vote because it's the most weirdly horny Steve Miller song

I do like this Kool & the Gang second-gear tune.

Champagne all the way

yeah, kinda no point listing the top 21

gypsy

Didn't read past "Eye in the Sky"

Cool Evelyn Champagne King poll.

weirdly, Evelyn’s “Love Come Down” didn’t chart in the Netherlands, but the song went top 5 the next year in a reggae version by Barry Biggs (whose splendid "Wide Awake in a Dream" I only discovered last week):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcc8utVwkfo

It was Laura Branigan until I saw Evelyn King.

also, there’s no “Love Come Down” without Kashif, who wrote it. please feast yourself to “I Just Gotta Have You (Lover Turn Me On)", his first hit as a solo artist, a year after LCD. best rewrite ever!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSOUNeiTkiE

weirdly, Evelyn’s “Love Come Down” didn’t chart in the Netherlands

It peaked at 44 in Canada, apparently. I don't think I know it.

I discovered “I Just Gotta Have You (Lover Turn Me On)" when Kashif died. Wonderful.

I'm familiar with 16 of these; Fleetwood Mac is the only one I actually love. As requested:

TOP 5
Gypsy
You Can Do Magic
Hold On
Eye in the Sky
Heart Attack

BOTTOM 5
Hard To Say I'm Sorry
Up Where We Belong
The One You Love
Heartlight
Eye of the Tiger

"Hold On" was a big hit in Canada due to being an Ian Thomas cover (thus eligible for Canadian content airplay). America's follow-up to "You Can Do Magic", "Right Before Your Eyes", was also an Ian Thomas cover.
I think I prefer “I Just Gotta Have You" to this Evelyn King song.

my fav song from that kashif album is "help yourself to my love"

oooh that one is very good. 80s me would have died and gone to heaven had he heard it

i guess since we're talking about kashif here is my favorite non-"love come down" kashif jam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSDHpYW_eFo

oh yes - that’s George Benson • Inside Love (So Personal)

keep ‘em coming (down)!

...or maybe here? Kashif tributes

c+p’d the current convo there

How I ranked the #22 songs in this period.

clear winner from that list: Stephanie Mills – What’cha Gonna Do with My Lovin’ - but that’s 1979

Top Eight:
Michael McDonald - I Keep Forgettin'
Laura Branigan - Gloria
Evelyn King - Love Come Down
The Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra
Flock of Seagulls - I Ran So Far Away
Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
Kool & The Gang - Big Fun
John Cougar Mellencamp - Jack and Diane
Fleetwood Mac - Gypsy

Bottom Five:
The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky
Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes - Up Where We Belong
Olivia Newton-John - Heart Attack
Juice Newton - Break It To Me Gently
Neil Diamond - Heartlight

First Time Listens:
Santana - Hold On
Michael Martin Murphey - What's Forever For
Glen Frey - The One You Love

thread needs more I Keep Forgettin' love

agree

Bottom Five:
Olivia Newton-John - Heart Attack

Sorry? not a fan.

I'm with Sunder, I was obsessed with "Eye In The Sky" when it came out. Still dig it mightily.

I was thinking I might vote Eye in the Sky, I Keep Forgettin', or Love Come Down, but I thought about it some more, and this is definitely "I Ran"

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Was this purposely pushed to 22 because forks knew it would win?

22 is the new 77