List of Top Country LPs number ones of 1982

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Bobbie Sue was a number one for the Oak Ridge Boys.

Top Country Albums is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music albums in the United States, published by Billboard. In 1982, six different albums topped the chart, which was at the time published under the title Top Country LPs, based on sales reports submitted by a representative sample of stores nationwide.

Willie Nelson and the band Alabama dominated the top of the chart in 1982; both acts spent more than 20 weeks at number one, and only four of the year's 52 issues did not feature one of the two acts in the top spot. In the issue of Billboard dated January 2, Alabama was at number one with Feels So Right. The album had already spent 17 weeks atop the chart in 1981 and would continue to return to number one in the first half of 1982, going on to achieve a final total of 28 weeks at number one, a new record for the country albums chart. Three weeks after Feels So Right was displaced from the top spot, the band was back at number one with its next album, Mountain Music. That album went on to spend 14 weeks at number one in 1982, the most by any LP during the year, and would add a further 14 the following year to equal the band's own record of 28 weeks atop the chart with an album. Alabama would go on to become the most successful country act of the 1980s, with ten number one LPs during the decade, a run interrupted only by the seasonal album Christmas in 1985. Mountain Music was the band's best-selling LP, selling over 5 million copies.

Nelson spent a single week at number one in January with the compilation Greatest Hits (& Some That Will Be) and then returned to the top spot in May with Always on My Mind, which spent 22 non-consecutive weeks atop the chart. Although it consisted largely of cover versions of pop classics rather than original material, the latter album was hugely successful, selling over four million copies and being honored as Album of the Year by the Country Music Association. It was the longest-running of Nelson's 13 career number ones, spending twice as long atop the chart as any of his other chart-toppers. Only two other acts reached number one in 1982. The Oak Ridge Boys spent three weeks in the top spot in the spring with Bobbie Sue, and in November Ricky Skaggs topped the chart for a single week with Highways & Heartaches. It was the first of four chart-topping albums for Skaggs, all of which occurred in a four-year portion of a career that has spanned from the late 1950s into the 21st century.

Chart history

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Ricky Skaggs had his first chart-topping album in 1982.

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Randy Owen, lead singer of Alabama. The band had two long-running number ones in 1982

Willie Nelson spent a total of 23 weeks at number one in 1982

Issue date	Title	Artist(s)	Ref.
January 2	Feels So Right	Alabama
January 9
January 16	Greatest Hits (& Some That Will Be)	Willie Nelson
January 23	Feels So Right	Alabama
January 30
February 6
February 13
February 20
February 27
March 6
March 13
March 20
March 27	Bobbie Sue	The Oak Ridge Boys
April 3
April 10
April 17	Mountain Music	Alabama
April 24
May 1
May 8
May 15
May 22	Always on My Mind	Willie Nelson
May 29
June 5	Mountain Music	Alabama
June 12	Always on My Mind	Willie Nelson
June 19
June 26	Mountain Music	Alabama
July 3
July 10
July 17	Always on My Mind	Willie Nelson
July 24
July 31
August 7
August 14
August 21
August 28
September 4
September 11
September 18
September 25
October 2
October 9
October 16
October 23
October 30
November 6
November 13
November 20	Highways & Heartaches	Ricky Skaggs
November 27	Mountain Music	Alabama
December 4
December 11
December 18
December 25