In 1982, RPM magazine published a chart for top-performing singles in the adult contemporary category in Canada. The chart, entitled Contemporary Adult, has undergone numerous name changes and has become Adult Contemporary from 1984 to September 1988, and May 1989 until the magazine's final publication in November 2000. In 1982, 35 individual songs topped the chart, which contained 30 positions and is based on record sales and adult contemporary radio station playlist submissions.
Chart history An asterisk (*) indicates an unpublished weekly chart due to the special double issues RPM publishes for the year-end top singles charts.
+Issue dateTitleArtist(s)*"Comin' In and Out of Your Life"Barbra Streisand* "Yesterday's Songs" Neil Diamond "I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World"Ronnie Milsap "The Sweetest Thing (I've Ever Known)"Juice Newton "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)"Hall & Oates "Perhaps Love" John Denver and Plácido Domingo "Leader of the Band"Dan Fogelberg "Bobbie Sue" Oak Ridge Boys "Love in the First Degree" Alabama "Key Largo" Bertie Higgins "Another Sleepless Night"Anne Murray "Chariots of Fire" Vangelis "On the Way to the Sky"Neil Diamond "Shanghai Breezes"John Denver "Mountain Music"Alabama "I've Never Been to Me" Charlene "Run for the Roses"Dan Fogelberg "Any Day Now" Ronnie Milsap "When He Shines"Sheena Easton "Even the Nights Are Better"Air Supply "Island of Lost Souls" Blondie "Take Me Down" Alabama "Hard to Say I'm Sorry"Chicago "Love Will Turn You Around"Kenny Rogers "You Should Hear How She Talks About You" Melissa Manchester "Hey Baby"Anne Murray "Blue Eyes"Elton John "Heartlight"Neil Diamond "Abracadabra"Steve Miller Band "I Will Always Love You"Dolly Parton "Heartlight" Neil Diamond "Let It Be Me"Willie Nelson "Break It to Me Gently"Juice Newton "Southern Cross" Crosby, Stills and Nash "The Girl Is Mine" Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney "You and I" Eddie Rabbitt and Crystal Gayle
References
External links Search RPM charts collection at Library and Archives Canada