List of number one hits in Italy (1981)

This list of number one hits is based on the charts of the Italian music magazine Musica e dischi in 1981. There were 13 number one singles and eight number one albums that year.

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Singles

← 1980 ←	List of number one hits in Italy  (M&D)			1982 →
Period Where. total Interpreter Title Author (s) Additional Information (Period, weeks in first place, artist, title , author [s], additional information) 1st week 1 week (total 5) 5 Diana Ross Upside Down Nile Rodgers , Bernard Edwards - 2-6 Week 5 weeks (total 10) 10 Stevie Wonder Master Blaster Stevie Wonder - 7th-9th Week 3 weeks 3 Alice Per Elisa Franco Battiato , Giusto Pio The winner of the Sanremo Festival in 1981 made it straight to first place with her song. 10-12 Week 3 weeks 3 Loretta Goggi Maledetta primavera Amerigo Cassella, Gaetano "Totò" Savio Goggi achieved second place with this song at the Sanremo Festival. 13-14 Week 2 weeks 2 Claudio Cecchetto Gioca Jouer Claudio Cecchetto, Claudio Simonetti DJ and producer Cecchetto, who appeared for the second time as the presenter of the Sanremo Festival in 1981, provided the festival's theme song with the nonsense song. 15-21 Week 7 weeks 7th Ricchi e Poveri Sarà perché ti amo Pupo , Daniele Pace, Dario Farina After a fifth place at the Sanremo Festival, the contribution developed into the biggest hit of the Genoese band to date. 22-25 Week 4 weeks 4th Lio Amoureux solitaires Elli Medeiros , Denis Quilliard Lio had previously performed with the song as an international guest at the Sanremo Festival. 26th week 1 week (4 in total) 4th Edoardo Bennato Canta appress'a nuje Edoardo Bennato The ska song with the A-side E invece no , held in the Neapolitan dialect, brought Bennato back to the top of the single charts. 27.-28. Week 2 weeks 2 Pooh Chi fermerà la musica Roby Facchinetti, Valerio Negrini - 29.-31. Week 3 weeks (4 in total) 4th Edoardo Bennato Canta appress'a 'nuie Edoardo Bennato - 32nd-42nd Week 11 weeks 11 Nikka Costa (Out Here) On My Own Lesley Gore , Michael Gore Originally released in 1980 in the version by Irene Cara in the soundtrack of the film Fame - The Road to Fame , the then nine-year-old Nikka Costa landed a European hit with the song. The cover version was recorded in Milan, Nikka was accompanied on guitar by her father Don Costa . Together they met in Italy a. a. at the Festivalbar competition this year. 43-48 Week 6 weeks 6th Kim Carnes Bette Davis Eyes Jackie DeShannon , Donna Weiss - 49. – 51. Week 3 weeks 3 Heather Parisi Cicale Alberto Testa, Tony De Vita, Silvio Testi, Franco Miseria, Antonio Ricci The US showgirl's nonsense song formed the theme song for the second season of the Rai-1 television show Fantastico . 52nd week 1981 - 6th week 1982 7 weeks (total 7) 7th Richard Sanderson Reality Vladimir Cosma , Jeff Jordan The film's theme song La Boum was Sanderson's first and last major success.
← 1980				→ 1982 →

Albums

← 1980 ←	List of number one albums in Italy  (M&D)			1982 →
Period Where. total Interpreter title Additional Information (Period, weeks in first place, artist, title , additional information) 38th week 1980 - 7th week 1981 22 weeks 22nd Lucio Dalla Dalla - 8-12 Week 5 weeks 5 Barbra Streisand Guilty - 13-20 Week 8 weeks 8th Dire Straits Making Movies - 21-26 Week 6 weeks 6th Renato Zero Icaro - 27.-40. Week 14 weeks 14th Claudio Baglioni Strada facendo - 41-49. Week 9 weeks 9 Pooh Buona fortuna After the single Chi fermerà la musica , the album also made it to number one. 50th week 1 week 1 The Police Ghost in the Machine - 51st week 1981 - 3rd week 1982 5 weeks (total 5) 5 Renato Zero Artide Antartide -
← 1980				→ 1982 →

Web links

• Chart archive of Musica e dischi (paid subscription access)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ (Out Here) On My Own. In: HitParadeItalia. Retrieved June 29, 2015 (Italian). 

See also: 1981 number one hits in Australia , Belgium , Germany , Finland , France , Ireland , Japan , Canada , New Zealand , the Netherlands , Norway , Austria , Sweden , Switzerland , Spain , the United States, and the United Kingdom .