List of Billboard Mainstream Rock number-one songs of the 1980s
Number-one songs

List of Billboard Mainstream Rock number-one songs of the 1980s

Section Title: Number-one songs
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Issue date	Song	Artist(s)	Weeks at number one	Ref

1981

March 21	"I Can't Stand It"	Eric Clapton	2

April 4	"You Better You Bet"	The Who	5

May 9	"The Waiting"	Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers	6

June 20	"A Life of Illusion"	Joe Walsh	1

June 27	"The Voice"	The Moody Blues	4

July 25	"Urgent"	Foreigner	4

August 22	"Burnin' for You"	Blue Öyster Cult	2

September 5	"Start Me Up"	The Rolling Stones	13

December 5	"Waiting for a Girl Like You"	Foreigner	1

December 12	"Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic"	The Police	2

December 26	"Harden My Heart"	Quarterflash	3

1982

January 16	"Centerfold"	The J. Geils Band	3

February 6	"I Love Rock and Roll"	Joan Jett	5

March 13	"(Oh) Pretty Woman"	Van Halen	2

March 27	"Don't Let Him Know"	Prism	1

April 3	"867-5309/Jenny"	Tommy Tutone	3

April 24	"Heat of the Moment"	Asia	5

May 29	"No One Like You"	Scorpions	1

June 5	"Stone Cold"	Rainbow	1

June 12	"Heat of the Moment"	Asia	1

June 19	"Hurts So Good"	John Cougar	1

June 26	"Caught Up in You"	.38 Special	1

July 3	"Eye of the Tiger"	Survivor	5

August 7	"Think I'm in Love"	Eddie Money	3

August 28	"Everybody Wants You"	Billy Squier	6

October 9	"New World Man"	Rush	1

October 16	"Dirty Laundry"	Don Henley	2

October 30	"New World Man"	Rush	1

November 6	"Dirty Laundry"	Don Henley	1

November 13	"Shock the Monkey"	Peter Gabriel	2

November 27	"Down Under"	Men at Work	2

December 11	"You Got Lucky"	Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers	2

December 25	"Down Under"	Men at Work	3

1983

January 15	"You Got Lucky"	Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers	1

January 22	"Hungry Like the Wolf"	Duran Duran	3

February 12	"Twilight Zone"	Golden Earring	1

February 19	"Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)"	Journey	4

March 19	"Photograph"	Def Leppard	6

April 30	"She's a Beauty"	The Tubes	5

June 4	"Rock of Ages"	Def Leppard	1

June 11	"Every Breath You Take"	The Police	9

August 13	"Other Arms"	Robert Plant	1

August 20	"Don't Cry"	Asia	1

August 27	"King of Pain"	The Police	4

September 24	"How Can I Refuse"	Heart	1

October 1	"King of Pain"	The Police	1

October 8	"Suddenly Last Summer"	The Motels	2

October 22	"Love Is a Battlefield"	Pat Benatar	2

November 5	"Heart and Soul"	Huey Lewis and the News	1

November 12	"Love Is a Battlefield"	Pat Benatar	2

November 26	"Owner of a Lonely Heart"	Yes	4

December 24	"If I'd Been the One"	.38 Special	4

1984

January 21	"Jump"	Van Halen	8

March 17	"Got a Hold on Me"	Christine McVie	2

March 31	"A Fine, Fine Day"	Tony Carey	1

April 7	"Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)"	Phil Collins	1

April 14	"You Might Think"	The Cars	3

May 5	"Oh Sherrie"	Steve Perry	2

May 19	"Run Runaway"	Slade	2

June 2	"Magic"	The Cars	1

June 9	"Dancing in the Dark"	Bruce Springsteen	6

July 21	"No Way Out"	Jefferson Starship	1

July 28	"The Warrior"	Scandal	1

August 4	"Rock Me Tonite"	Billy Squier	2

August 18	"The Warrior"	Scandal	1

August 25	"Missing You"	John Waite	2

September 8	"Are We Ourselves?"	The Fixx	2

September 22	"On the Dark Side"	John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band	5

October 27	"I Can't Hold Back"	Survivor	3

November 17	"Run to You"	Bryan Adams	4

December 15	"The Boys of Summer"	Don Henley	5

1985

January 19	"I Want to Know What Love Is"	Foreigner	1

January 26	"The Old Man Down the Road"	John Fogerty	3

February 16	"Somebody"	Bryan Adams	2

March 2	"Just Another Night"	Mick Jagger	2

March 16	"Radioactive"	The Firm	1

March 23	"All She Wants to Do Is Dance"	Don Henley	2

April 6	"Forever Man"	Eric Clapton	2

April 20	"Don't You (Forget About Me)"	Simple Minds	3

May 11	"Trapped"	Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band	3

June 1	"Little by Little"	Robert Plant	2

June 15	"Tough All Over"	John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band	2

June 29	"If You Love Somebody Set Them Free"	Sting	3

July 20	"The Power of Love"	Huey Lewis and the News	2

August 3	"Money for Nothing"	Dire Straits	3

August 24	"Fortress Around Your Heart"	Sting	2

September 7	"Lonely Ol' Night"	John Cougar Mellencamp	5

October 12	"We Built This City"	Starship	1

October 19	"You Belong to the City"	Glenn Frey	3

November 9	"Sleeping Bag"	ZZ Top	2

November 23	"Tonight She Comes"	The Cars	3

December 14	"Talk to Me"	Stevie Nicks	2

December 28	"Silent Running"	Mike + The Mechanics	5

1986

February 1	"Kyrie"	Mr. Mister	1

February 8	"Stages"	ZZ Top	2

February 22	"All the King's Horses"	The Firm	4

March 22	"Addicted to Love"	Robert Palmer	2

April 5	"Why Can't This Be Love"	Van Halen	3

April 26	"Stick Around"	Julian Lennon	3

May 17	"Like a Rock"	Bob Seger	2

May 31	"Sledgehammer"	Peter Gabriel	2

June 14	"Invisible Touch"	Genesis	3

July 5	"Secret Separation"	The Fixx	2

July 19	"Higher Love"	Steve Winwood	4

August 16	"Missionary Man"	Eurythmics	1

August 23	"Throwing It All Away"	Genesis	3

September 13	"In Your Eyes"	Peter Gabriel	1

September 20	"Take Me Home Tonight"	Eddie Money	2

October 4	"Emotion in Motion"	Ric Ocasek	1

October 11	"Amanda"	Boston	3

November 1	"Hip to Be Square"	Huey Lewis and the News	1

November 8	"Don't Get Me Wrong"	The Pretenders	3

November 29	"I Want to Make the World Turn Around"	Steve Miller Band	6

1987

January 10	"It's in the Way That You Use It"	Eric Clapton	1

January 17	"My Baby"	The Pretenders	2

January 31	"Livin' on a Prayer"	Bon Jovi	2

February 14	"Midnight Blue"	Lou Gramm	5

March 21	"I'm No Angel"	Gregg Allman Band	1

March 28	"Come as You Are"	Peter Wolf	1

April 4	"With or Without You"	U2	5

May 9	"Jammin' Me"	Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers	4

June 6	"Shakedown"	Bob Seger	4

July 4	"Don't Mean Nothing"	Richard Marx	1

July 11	"Give to Live"	Sammy Hagar	3

August 1	"Touch of Grey"	Grateful Dead	3

August 22	"Paper in Fire"	John Cougar Mellencamp	5

September 26	"Learning to Fly"	Pink Floyd	3

October 17	"Brilliant Disguise"	Bruce Springsteen	1

October 24	"Love Will Find a Way"	Yes	3

November 14	"Cherry Bomb"	John Cougar Mellencamp	1

November 21	"Tunnel of Love"	Bruce Springsteen	4

December 19	"Say You Will"	Foreigner	4

1988

January 16	"On the Turning Away"	Pink Floyd	1

January 23	"Just Like Paradise"	David Lee Roth	4

February 20	"Heaven Knows"	Robert Plant	6

April 2	"I Wish I Had a Girl"	Henry Lee Summer	1

April 9	"Tall Cool One"	Robert Plant	4

May 7	"Only a Memory"	The Smithereens	1

May 14	"The Valley Road"	Bruce Hornsby and the Range	3

June 4	"Black and Blue"	Van Halen	3

June 25	"Roll with It"	Steve Winwood	4

July 23	"When It's Love"	Van Halen	1

July 30	"Simply Irresistible"	Robert Palmer	3

August 20	"Hate to Lose Your Lovin'"	Little Feat	4

September 17	"Don't You Know What the Night Can Do?"	Steve Winwood	2

October 1	"I'm Not Your Man"	Tommy Conwell & The Young Rumblers	1

October 8	"Desire"	U2	5

November 12	"It's Money That Matters"	Randy Newman	2

November 26	"Orange Crush"	R.E.M.	2

December 10	"Angel of Harlem"	U2	6

1989

January 21	"Got It Made"	Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	2

February 4	"The Love in Your Eyes"	Eddie Money	1

February 11	"Stand"	R.E.M.	1

February 18	"Driven Out"	The Fixx	4

March 18	"Working on It"	Chris Rea	1

March 25	"I'll Be You"	The Replacements	3

April 15	"Now You're in Heaven"	Julian Lennon	1

April 22	"I Won't Back Down"	Tom Petty	5

May 27	"The Doctor"	The Doobie Brothers	3

June 17	"Rooms on Fire"	Stevie Nicks	1

June 24	"Runnin' Down a Dream"	Tom Petty	1

July 1	"The End of the Innocence"	Don Henley	4

July 29	"Crossfire"	Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble	3

August 19	"Let the Day Begin"	The Call	1

August 26	"Free Fallin'"	Tom Petty	1

September 2	"Mixed Emotions"	The Rolling Stones	5

October 7	"Love in an Elevator"	Aerosmith	2

October 21	"Rock and a Hard Place"	The Rolling Stones	5

November 25	"Pretending"	Eric Clapton	5

December 30	"Show Don't Tell"	Rush	2

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In Your Eyes reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks on September 13.
In Your Eyes (Peter Gabriel song) reached No. 1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks on September 13, 1986.
In Your Eyes (Peter Gabriel song) reached No. 1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock on September 13, 1986.

final_sentence: In Your Eyes reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks on September 13.
final_sentence: In Your Eyes (Peter Gabriel song) reached No. 1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks on September 13, 1986.
final_sentence: In Your Eyes (Peter Gabriel song) reached No. 1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock on September 13, 1986.