List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1981

This is a list of singles that have peaked in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 during 1981.

Overall, a total of 87 songs hit the top 10, including 17 number-one songs and 10 songs that peaked at number-two.

Hall & Oates scored four top ten hits during the year with "Kiss on My List", "You Make My Dreams", "Private Eyes", and "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)", the most among all other artists.

General sources

 * Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Eighties (ISBN 0-89820-079-2)
 * Additional information obtained can be verified within Billboard's online archive services and print editions of the magazine.
 * Additional information obtained can be verified within Billboard's online archive services and print editions of the magazine.