Editing 1981 in music (section)

===February===
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!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
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| style="text-align:center;"|4
| ''[[Urban Chipmunk]]'' || [[Alvin and the Chipmunks]] ||-
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| style="text-align:center;"|6
| ''[[The Fool Circle]]'' || [[Nazareth (band)|Nazareth]] ||-
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| style="text-align:center;"|9
| ''[[Difficult to Cure]]'' || [[Rainbow (English band)|Rainbow]] ||<ref>{{cite magazine|date=17 January 1981|title=News|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/80s/81/Record-Mirror-1981-01-17-OCR.pdf|magazine=[[Record Mirror]]|page=2|access-date=23 August 2022}}</ref>
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|12
| ''[[Moving Pictures (Rush album)|Moving Pictures]]'' || [[Rush (band)|Rush]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|13
| ''[[Face Value (album)|Face Value]]'' || [[Phil Collins]] || solo debut
|-
| ''[[St. Valentine's Day Massacre (EP)|St. Valentine's Day Massacre]]'' || [[Motörhead|Motör]] [[Headgirl]] [[Girlschool|School]] || EP
|-
| ''[[Fire Down Under]]'' || [[Riot (band)|Riot]] ||-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|16
| ''[[Killers (Iron Maiden album)|Killers]]'' || [[Iron Maiden]] || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bpi.co.uk/award/3625-1438-2|title=Killers certification}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|17
| ''[[Being with You (album)|Being with You]]'' || [[Smokey Robinson]] ||-
|-
| ''[[To Love Again (Diana Ross album)|To Love Again]]'' || [[Diana Ross]] || Compilation
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|20
| ''[[Another Ticket]]'' || [[Eric Clapton]] ||-
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|27
| ''[[Point of Entry]]'' || [[Judas Priest]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="14" style="text-align:center;"|?
| ''[[Working Class Dog]]'' || [[Rick Springfield]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Another One Rides the Bus (EP)|Another One Rides the Bus]]'' || [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] || EP
|-
| ''[[Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks]]'' || [[Hanoi Rocks]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Atomkraft? Nein, Danke!]]'' || [[Earthstar (band)|Earthstar]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Coconut Telegraph]]'' || [[Jimmy Buffett]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Feels So Right]]'' || [[Alabama (American band)|Alabama]] ||-
|-
| ''[[From the Tea-rooms of Mars ....]]'' || [[Landscape (band)|Landscape]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Higher Plane (album)|Higher Plane]]'' || [[Al Green]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Juice (Juice Newton album)|Juice]]'' || [[Juice Newton]] ||-
|-
| ''[[My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (album)|My Life in the Bush of Ghosts]]'' || [[Brian Eno]] – [[David Byrne]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Seven Year Ache]]'' || [[Rosanne Cash]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Stray Cats (album)|Stray Cats]]'' || [[Stray Cats]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The League of Gentlemen (album)|The League of Gentlemen]]'' || [[Robert Fripp]] and [[League of Gentlemen (band)|The League of Gentlemen]] ||-
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| ''[[Wild-Eyed Southern Boys]]'' || [[38 Special (band)|38 Special]] ||-
|}