The UK's best-selling single of 1983 was Culture Club's Karma Chameleon with 955,000 sales, according Official Charts Company data.
As revealed on new Channel 5 series Britain's favourite 80s songs, currently airing every Friday at 10pm, Culture Club's iconic six-week Number 1 leads the year's top sellers list and was easily the biggest single of the 12 month period.
In second place, and just over 350,000 sales behind, is Billy Joel's global hit Uptown Girl (602k), followed by UB40's Red Red Wine at 3 (550k) - the reggae-pop band's track logged three weeks at the summit in September that year.
David Bowie's Let's Dance - produced by Nile Rodgers - places fourth for the year with an esitmated 471,000 sales, while Bonnie Tyler claims the
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