Issue date
|
Title
|
Artist
|
January 15
|
The Bird
|
Jerry Reed
|
January 22
|
A Love Song
|
Kenny Rogers
|
January 29
|
Honky Tonkin' (All Night Long)
|
Dallas Harms
|
February 5
|
Going Where the Lonely Go
|
Merle Haggard
|
February 12
|
Like Nothing Ever Happened
|
Sylvia
|
February 19
|
Inside
|
Ronnie Milsap
|
February 26
|
March 5
|
Faking Love
|
T. G. Sheppard and Karen Brooks
|
March 12
|
If Hollywood Don't Need You (Honey I Still Do)
|
Don Williams
|
March 19
|
Last Thing I Needed First Thing This Morning
|
Willie Nelson
|
March 26
|
The Rose
|
Conway Twitty
|
April 2
|
I Wouldn't Change You If I Could
|
Ricky Skaggs
|
April 9
|
We've Got Tonight
|
Kenny Rogers and Sheena Easton
|
April 16
|
April 23
|
Dixieland Delight
|
Alabama
|
April 30
|
Amarillo by Morning
|
George Strait
|
May 7
|
Whatever Happened——to Old-Fashioned Love
|
B. J. Thomas
|
May 14
|
Jose Cuervo
|
Shelly West
|
May 21
|
Whatever Happened to Old-Fashioned Love
|
B. J. Thomas
|
May 28
|
Common Man
|
John Conlee
|
June 4
|
I'm Movin' On
|
Emmylou Harris
|
June 11
|
You Can't Run From Love
|
Eddie Rabbitt
|
June 18
|
Our Love Is on the Faultline
|
Crystal Gayle
|
June 25
|
Stranger in My House
|
Ronnie Milsap
|
July 2
|
You Can't Run From Love
|
Eddie Rabbitt
|
July 9
|
Love is On a Roll
|
Don Williams
|
July 16
|
Fool for Your Love
|
Mickey Gilley
|
July 23
|
Highway 40 Blues
|
Ricky Skaggs
|
July 30
|
The Closer You Get
|
Alabama
|
August 6
|
Pancho and Lefty
|
Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard
|
August 13
|
He's a Heartache (Looking for a Place to Happen)
|
Janie Fricke
|
August 20
|
Love Song
|
The Oak Ridge Boys
|
August 27
|
Lost in the Feeling
|
Conway Twitty
|
September 3
|
Hey Bartender
|
Johnny Lee
|
September 10
|
You're Gonna Ruin My Bad Reputation
|
Ronnie McDowell
|
September 17
|
Why Do I Have to Choose
|
Willie Nelson
|
September 24
|
Night Games
|
Charley Pride
|
October 1
|
Baby What About You
|
Crystal Gayle
|
October 8
|
Don't You Know How Much I Love You
|
Ronnie Milsap
|
October 15
|
Nobody but You
|
Don Williams
|
October 22
|
You've Got a Lover
|
Ricky Skaggs
|
October 29
|
Paradise Tonight
|
Charly McClain and Mickey Gilley
|
November 5
|
Lady Down on Love
|
Alabama
|
November 12
|
Islands in the Stream
|
Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton
|
November 19
|
November 26
|
One of a Kind, Pair of Fools
|
Barbara Mandrell
|
December 3
|
Tennessee Whiskey
|
George Jones
|
December 10
|
A Little Good News
|
Anne Murray
|
December 17
|
Tell Me a Lie
|
Janie Fricke
|
December 24
|
Black Sheep
|
John Anderson
|
December 31
|
Houston (Means I'm One Day Closer to You)
|
Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers
|