In 1983, RPM magazine published a chart for top-performing singles in the adult contemporary category in Canada. The chart, entitled Contemporary Adult, has undergone numerous name changes and has become Adult Contemporary from 1984 to September 1988, and May 1989 until the magazine's final publication in November 2000. In 1983, 39 individual songs topped the chart, which contained 30 positions and is based on record sales and adult contemporary radio station playlist submissions.
Chart history
An asterisk (*) indicates an unpublished weekly chart due to the special double issues RPM publishes for the year-end top singles charts.
+Issue dateTitleArtist(s)*"You and I"Eddie Rabbitt and Crystal Gayle* "It's Raining Again" Supertramp "Too Beautiful to Cry" Ronnie Milsap "On the Wings of Love" Jeffrey Osborne "Someone's Already Saying Goodbye" Anne Murray "Maneater" Hall & Oates "You Are" Lionel Richie "Shame on the Moon" Bob Seger "Heart to Heart" Kenny Loggins "We've Got Tonight" Kenny Rogers and Sheena Easton "All Right" Christopher Cross "I'm Alive" Neil Diamond "Midnight Blue" Louise Tucker "Make Love Stay" Dan Fogelberg "It Might Be You" Stephen Bishop "Take the Short Way Home" Dionne Warwick "Somebody Loves You" Kamahl "I Won't Hold You Back" Toto "Puttin' On the Ritz" Taco "My Love" Lionel Richie "Flashdance... What a Feeling" Irene Cara "The Woman in You" Bee Gees "Straight from the Heart" Bryan Adams "The Closer You Get" Alabama "Hold Me 'til the Mornin' Comes" Paul Anka "The Border" America "All Time High" Rita Coolidge "Waiting for Your Love" Toto "Stand By" Roman Holliday "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You" Laura Branigan "Human Nature" Michael Jackson "Singin' in the Rain" Taco "Maniac" Michael Sembello "Making Love Out of Nothing at All"Air Supply "Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)" Sheena Easton "All Night Long (All Night)" Lionel Richie "Islands in the Stream" Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton "Uptown Girl" Billy Joel "The Way He Makes Me Feel" Barbra Streisand "What's New" Linda Ronstadt Due to a publishing error, this chart was dated June 23, 1983.
References
External links Search RPM charts collection at Library and Archives Canada