Editing 1981 in music (section)

===January===
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!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
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| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" |12
| ''[[The Nature of the Beast (album)|The Nature of the Beast]]'' || [[April Wine]] ||<ref name="allmusic1">{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r807|pure_url=yes}}|title=''Nature of the Beast'' overview at AllMusic|accessdate=2010-05-27|publisher=AllMusic.com}}</ref>
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| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|15
| ''[[In Our Lifetime (Marvin Gaye album)|In Our Lifetime]]'' || [[Marvin Gaye]] ||-
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| ''[[Stands for Decibels]]'' || [[The dB's]] ||-
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| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|16
|''[[Paradise Theatre (album)|Paradise Theatre]]'' || [[Styx (band)|Styx]] ||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bpi.co.uk/brit-certified/|title=BPI certifications for Styx}}</ref> 
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| ''[[The Wild, the Willing and the Innocent]]'' || [[UFO (band)|UFO]] ||-
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| ''[[Radioland (album)|Radioland]]'' || [[Nicolette Larson]] ||-
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| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;"|19
| ''[[Take My Time]]'' || [[Sheena Easton]] ||<ref>{{cite magazine|date=17 January 1981|title=News|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1981/Music-Week-1981-01-17.pdf|magazine=[[Music Week]]|page=2|access-date=12 September 2022}}</ref>
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| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|23
| ''[[Kiss Me Deadly (album)|Kiss Me Deadly]]'' || [[Generation X (band)|Generation X]] ||-
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| ''[[Trust (Elvis Costello album)|Trust]]'' || [[Elvis Costello]] [[The Attractions|and the Attractions]] ||-
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| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|28
| ''[[Healing (Todd Rundgren album)|Healing]]'' || [[Todd Rundgren]] ||-
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| ''[[Welcome to the Wrecking Ball!]]'' || [[Grace Slick]] ||-
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| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;"|30
| ''[[Captured (Journey album)|Captured]]'' || [[Journey (band)|Journey]] || Live
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| rowspan="8" style="text-align:center;" |?
| ''[[Turn Back (Toto album)|Turn Back]]'' || [[Toto (band)|Toto]] ||-
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| ''[[Mondo Bongo]]'' || [[The Boomtown Rats]] ||-
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| ''[[...And Don't the Kids Just Love It]]'' || [[Television Personalities]] ||-
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| ''[[Evangeline (Emmylou Harris album)|Evangeline]]'' || [[Emmylou Harris]] ||-
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| ''[[Frost and Fire (album)|Frost and Fire]]'' || [[Cirith Ungol (band)|Cirith Ungol]] ||-
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|[[Playing to Win (Rick Nelson album)|Playing to Win]]
|[[Ricky Nelson|Rick Nelson]]
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| ''[[There Must Be a Better World Somewhere]]'' || [[B. B. King]] ||-
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| ''[[To the Bone (Kris Kristofferson album)|To the Bone]]'' || [[Kris Kristofferson]] ||-
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