Editing 1981 in music (section)

===July===
{| class="wikitable"
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!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
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| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|3
| ''[[4 (Foreigner album)|4]]'' || [[Foreigner (band)|Foreigner]] ||-
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| ''[[The Friends of Mr Cairo]]'' || [[Jon and Vangelis]] ||-
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| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|6
| ''[[High 'n' Dry]]'' || [[Def Leppard]] ||-
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| ''[[Precious Time (album)|Precious Time]]'' || [[Pat Benatar]] ||-
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| style="text-align:center;"|8
| ''[[Beauty and the Beat (The Go-Go's album)|Beauty and the Beat]]'' || [[The Go-Go's]] ||-
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| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|20
| ''[[Escape (Journey album)|Escape]]'' || [[Journey (band)|Journey]] ||-
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| ''[[El Loco]]'' || [[ZZ Top]] ||-
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| ''[[Pleasant Dreams]]'' || [[The Ramones]] ||-
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| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|27
| ''[[Bella Donna (album)|Bella Donna]]'' || [[Stevie Nicks]] ||Solo Debut
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| ''[[KooKoo]]'' || [[Debbie Harry]] ||Solo Debut
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| ''[[Bucks Fizz (album)|Bucks Fizz]]'' || [[Bucks Fizz (band)|Bucks Fizz]] ||Debut
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| style="text-align:center;"|28
| ''[[You Want It You Got It]]'' || [[Bryan Adams]] ||-
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| style="text-align:center;"|29
| ''[[The Time (The Time album)|The Time]]'' || [[The Time (band)|The Time]] ||Debut
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|31
| ''[[Time (Electric Light Orchestra album)|Time]]'' || [[Electric Light Orchestra]] ||-
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| ''[[Step by Step (Eddie Rabbitt album)|Step by Step]]'' || [[Eddie Rabbitt]] ||-
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| rowspan="23" style="text-align:center;"|?
| ''[[Blue and Gray (album)|Blue and Gray]]'' || [[Poco (band)|Poco]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Document and Eyewitness]]'' || [[Wire (band)|Wire]] ||-
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| ''[[Dexterity (Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons album)|Dexterity]]'' || [[Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons]] ||-
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| ''[[Dreamtime (Tom Verlaine album)|Dreamtime]]'' || [[Tom Verlaine]] ||-
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| ''[[Endless Love (soundtrack)|Endless Love]]'' || Various Artists || Soundtrack
|-
| ''[[Freetime (album)|Freetime]]'' || [[Spyro Gyra]] ||-
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| ''[[Girls to Chat and Boys to Bounce]]'' || [[Foghat]] ||-
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| ''[[Heavy Metal (film)#Soundtrack|Heavy Metal Soundtrack]]'' || Various Artists || Soundtrack
|-
| ''[[Hoy-Hoy!]]'' || [[Little Feat]] ||Compilation
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| ''[[It's a Condition]]'' || [[Romeo Void]] ||-
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| ''[[The Man with the Horn]]'' || [[Miles Davis]] ||-
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| ''[[Marauder (Blackfoot album)|Marauder]]'' || [[Blackfoot (band)|Blackfoot]] ||-
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| ''Night of the Demon'' || [[Demon (band)|Demon]] ||-
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| ''[[Party Mix!]]'' || [[The B-52's]] || Remix
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| ''[[Pirates (Rickie Lee Jones album)|Pirates]]'' || [[Rickie Lee Jones]] ||-
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| ''[[Pirates of Penzance#Recordings|The Pirates of Penzance Broadway Cast Album]]'' || Various Artists || Broadway cast recording
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| ''[[Sirocco (album)|Sirocco]]'' || [[Australian Crawl]] ||-
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| ''[[Three Quartets]]'' || [[Chick Corea]] ||-
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| ''Walking Wild'' || [[New England (band)|New England]] ||-
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| ''[[Was (Not Was) (album)|Was (Not Was)]]'' || [[Was (Not Was)]] ||Debut
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| ''[[Whomp That Sucker]]'' || [[Sparks (band)|Sparks]] ||-
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| ''[[Word of Mouth (Jaco Pastorius album)|Word of Mouth]]'' || [[Jaco Pastorius]] ||-
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