50 Best Selling Albums in the 1980s

What was everyone listening to in the 1980s?

Sold on multiple formats at the time, you can buy them here on CD, Vinyl or Cassette.

Listed below are the Top 50 Best Selling Albums not ranked in order!

These are the UKs Biggest Selling Albums in the 80s.

Rank	Album	Artist	Year	Buy
1	Brothers in Arms	Dire Straits	1985	View
2	Bad	Michael Jackson	1987	View
3	Faith	George Michael	1987
4	The Joshua Tree	U2	1987	View
5	Graceland	Paul Simon	1986	View
6	True Blue	Madonna	1986	View
7	...But Seriously	Phil Collins	1989	View
8	Private Dancer	Tina Turner	1984
9	No Jacket Required	Phil Collins	1985	View
10	The Final	Wham!	1986
11	Hysteria	Def Leppard	1987	View
12	Appetite for Destruction	Guns N' Roses	1987	View
13	Whitney	Whitney Houston	1987
14	Kick	INXS	1987
15	Tango in the Night	Fleetwood Mac	1987	View
16	The Innocents	Erasure	1988
17	The Queen Is Dead	The Smiths	1986
18	Super Trouper	Abba	1980
19	Invisible Touch	Genesis	1986	View
20	Cloud Nine	George Harrison	1987	View
21	So	Peter Gabriel	1986	View
22	The Raw & the Cooked	Fine Young Cannibals	1989
23	Kylie	Kylie Minogue	1988
24	Rattle and Hum	U2	1988
25	New Jersey	Bon Jovi	1988
26	Slippery When Wet	Bon Jovi	1986
27	Diesel and Dust	Midnight Oil	1987
28	The Miracle	Queen	1989
29	A Momentary Lapse of Reason	Pink Floyd	1987
30	Electric	The Cult	1987
31	Legend*	Bob Marley & The Wailers	1984
32	Hunting High and Low	A-ha	1985
33	Rio	Duran Duran	1982
34	Lexicon of Love	ABC	1982	View
35	Kings of the Wild Frontier	Adam and the Ants	1980	View
36	Dare	The Human League	1981
37	Colour by Numbers	Culture Club	1983	View
38	Can't Slow Down	Lionel Richie	1983
39	Thriller	Michael Jackson	1982
40	Born in the U.S.A.	Bruce Springsteen	1984
41	Purple Rain	Prince & The Revolution	1984
42	Like a Virgin	Madonna	1984
43	The Singles Collection	Spandau Ballet	1985
44	Welcome to the Pleasuredome	Frankie Goes to Hollywood	1984
45	Songs from the Big Chair	Tears for Fears	1985
46	Diamond Life	Sade	1984
47	Avalon	Roxy Music	1982
48	Love over Gold	Dire Straits	1982
49	Face Value	Phil Collins	1981
50	The Hurting	Tears for Fears	1983