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DeutschList of top 25 albums for 1980 in Australia
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| Other Australian top charts for 1980 | |
| top 25 singles | |
| Australian top 40 charts for the 1980s | |
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| Australian number-one charts of 1980 | |
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The following lists the top 25 (end of year) charting albums on the Australian Album Charts, for the year of 1980. These were the best charting albums in Australia for 1980. 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. | The Wall | Pink Floyd | 1 | 4 |
| 2. | Glass Houses | Billy Joel | 2 | |
| 3. | True Colours | Split Enz | 1 | 10 |
| 4. | East | Cold Chisel | 2 | |
| 5. | Off the Wall | Michael Jackson | 1 | 2 |
| 6. | Stardust | Willie Nelson | 5 | |
| 7. | The Rose | Soundtrack / Bette Midler | 3 | |
| 8. | The Boys Light Up | Australian Crawl | 4 | |
| 9. | Can't Stop the Music | Soundtrack / Village People | 1 | 9 |
| 10. | Regatta de Blanc | The Police | 1 | 2 |
| 11. | Unmasked | Kiss | 3 | |
| 12. | Xanadu | Motion Picture Soundtrack | 1 | 6 |
| 13. | The B-52's | The B-52's | 7 | |
| 14. | Back in Black | AC/DC | 1 | 1 (pkd #1 in 1981) |
| 15. | Dynasty | Kiss | 2 | |
| 16. | Night Rains | Janis Ian | 11 | |
| 17. | Tusk | Fleetwood Mac | 2 | |
| 18. | Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) | David Bowie | 1 | 5 |
| 19. | Emotional Rescue | Rolling Stones | 4 | |
| 20. | Against the Wind | Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band | 6 | |
| 21. | Middle Man | Boz Scaggs | 11 | |
| 22. | Guilty | Barbra Streisand | 1 | 6 |
| 23. | Pretenders | Pretenders | 6 | |
| 24. | Give Me the Night | George Benson | 6 | |
| 25. | 21 at 33 | Elton John | 7 |
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.