List of Top 25 albums for 1981 in Australia

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The following lists the top 25 (end of year) charting albums on the Australian Album Charts, for the year of 1981. These were the best charting albums in Australia for 1981. 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.	Double Fantasy	John Lennon & Yoko Ono	1	10 (pkd #1 in 1980 & 81)
2.	Sirocco	Australian Crawl	1	6
3.	Back in Black	AC/DC	1	1
4.	Bad Habits	Billy Field	1	2
5.	Making Movies	Dire Straits	6
6.	Icehouse	Flowers	4
7.	Face Value	Phil Collins	2
8.	Hotter Than July	Stevie Wonder	3
9.	Christopher Cross	Christopher Cross	6
10.	Corroboree	Split Enz	1	3
11.	Zenyatta Mondatta	The Police	1	1
12.	Tattoo You	Rolling Stones	1	11
13.	Greatest Hits	Dr. Hook	1	4
14.	The Jazz Singer	Neil Diamond	10
15.	Arc of a Diver	Steve Winwood	5
16.	The Beatles Ballads	The Beatles	1	7
17.	Bella Donna	Stevie Nicks	1	1
18.	Time	Electric Light Orchestra	3
19.	Stars on 45 Long Play Album	Stars on 45	1	2
20.	Devo Live (Mini LP)	Devo	2
21.	Long Distance Voyager	The Moody Blues	7
22.	Swingshift	Cold Chisel	1	2
23.	Kings of the Wild Frontier	Adam and the Ants	2
24.	Chemistry	Mondo Rock	3
25.	Vienna	Ultravox	4

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

ARIA Charts

Official record chart keeping in Australia: Go-Set Top 40 (1966–1974); Kent Music Report (1974–1998; 1940–2007 retrospect); ARIA Charts (1988–present)

Albums

Top 50 albums
(Number-ones)

By decade	1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s

By year	2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Top 25 albums
(End-of-year/decade
charts)

Year	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 2013 2014 2015

Decade	1980s 2000s

Number one country albums

By Year	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Number one urban albums

By Year	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Other charts

Australian Artist Albums
Catalogue
Compilation
Digital

Artists who have reached number-one
Best selling albums

Singles

Top 50 singles
(Number-ones)

By decade	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s

By year	2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Top 25 singles
(End-of-year/decade
charts)

Year	1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 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 2013 2014 2015

Decade	1980s 2000s

Genre charts
(Number-ones)

Club	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Dance	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Urban	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Other charts
(Number-ones)

Digital	2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Streaming	2013 2014 2015 2016

Best selling singles

Chart achievements and milestones

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