List of number-one albums in Australia during the 1980s
1981

List of number-one albums in Australia during the 1980s

Section Title: 1981
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Date	Artist	Album	Weeks at number one

5 January	John Lennon and Yoko Ono	Double Fantasy	10 weeks

12 January

19 January

26 January

2 February

9 February

16 February

23 February

2 March	The Police	Zenyatta Mondatta	1 week

9 March	AC/DC	Back in Black	1 week

16 March	Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show	Greatest Hits	4 weeks

23 March

30 March

6 April

13 April	Cold Chisel	Swingshift	2 weeks

20 April

27 April	Split Enz	Corroboree	3 weeks

4 May

11 May

18 May	The Beatles	The Beatles' Ballads	7 weeks

25 May

1 June

8 June

15 June

22 June

29 June

6 July	Billy Field	Bad Habits	2 weeks

13 July

20 July	Stars on 45	Long Play Album	2 weeks

27 July

3 August	Australian Crawl	Sirocco	6 weeks

10 August

17 August

24 August

31 August

7 September

14 September	Various artists	Hitwave '81	1 week

21 September	Stevie Nicks	Bella Donna	1 week

28 September	The Rolling Stones	Tattoo You	11 weeks

5 October

12 October

19 October

26 October

2 November

9 November

16 November

23 November

30 November

7 December

14 December	The Police	Ghost in the Machine	1 week

21 December	Men at Work	Business as Usual	9 weeks

28 December

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The Greatest Hits album spent 4 weeks at the top of the Australian album charts in 1981.

final_sentence: The Greatest Hits album spent 4 weeks at the top of the Australian album charts in 1981.