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The Official Top 50 best-selling songs of 1981

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1981 was a year of change in British pop. Paul McCartney's band Wings split up, Billy Idol left Generation X to launch a solo career, and Genesis drummer Phil Collins unleashed his first solo album.

The year saw 20 songs reach Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart, starting with the previous year's Christmas Number 1 There's No-one Quite Like Grandma by the St Winifred's School Choir, and ending with The Human League's Don't You Want Me - a five-week chart-topper (including the Christmas Number 1) and also the best-selling song of the year, with an estimated 1.15 million sales.

As revealed on new Channel 5 series Britain's favourite 80s songs, the top selling song of 1981 differs from previously released versions of the chart, which had

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