Editing 1982 in music (section)

=== November ===
{| class="wikitable"
!Day
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
| align="center" rowspan="1"|2
|''[[Long After Dark]]''
|[[Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers]]
| –
|-
| align="center" rowspan="3"|5
|''[[Hello, I Must Be Going! (album)|Hello, I Must Be Going!]]''
|[[Phil Collins]]
| –
|-
|''[[A Kiss in the Dreamhouse]]''
|[[Siouxsie and The Banshees]]
| –
|-
|''[[Gone Troppo]]''
|[[George Harrison]]
| –
|-
| align="center" rowspan="3"|8
|''[[I Could Rule the World if I Could only Get the Parts]]''
|[[The Waitresses]]
|EP
|-
|''[[The Singles: The First Ten Years]]''
|[[ABBA]]
|Compilation
|-
|''[[The John Lennon Collection]]''
|[[John Lennon]]
|Compilation
|-
| align="center" rowspan="2" |12
|''[[Difficult Shapes & Passive Rhythms, Some People Think It's Fun to Entertain]]''
|[[China Crisis]]
|Debut
|-
|''[[Showtime!]]''
|[[The J. Geils Band]]
|Live
|-
| align="center" rowspan="1"|13
|''[[The Lee Aaron Project]]''
|[[Lee Aaron]]
| –
|-
| align="center" rowspan="2"|15
|''[[The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect]]''
|[[Todd Rundgren]]
| –
|-
|''[[Saints & Sinners (Whitesnake album)|Saints & Sinners]]''
|[[Whitesnake]]
| –
|-
| align="center" rowspan="1"|17
|''[[Chaka Khan (1982 album)|Chaka Khan]]''
|[[Chaka Khan]]
| –
|-
| align="center" rowspan="1"|24
|''[[8th Wonder (album)|8th Wonder]]''
|[[The Sugarhill Gang]]
| –
|-
| align="center" rowspan="1"|26
|''[[Coda (Led Zeppelin album)|Coda]]''
|[[Led Zeppelin]]
|Recorded 1970–'79
|-
| align="center" rowspan="1"|29
|''[[Thriller (Michael Jackson album)|Thriller]]''
|[[Michael Jackson]]
| –
|-
| rowspan="19" align="center" |?
|''[[Living My Life (album)|Living My Life]]''
|[[Grace Jones]]
| –
|-
|''[[10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1]]''
|[[Midnight Oil]]
| –
|-
|''[[Speak of the Devil (Ozzy Osbourne album)|Speak of the Devil]]''/Talk of the Devil (UK)
|[[Ozzy Osbourne]]
|Live
|-
|''[[Absolutely Live (Rod Stewart album)|Absolutely Live]]''
|[[Rod Stewart]]
|Live
|-
|''[[Computer Games (album)|Computer Games]]''
|[[George Clinton (funk musician)|George Clinton]]
| –
|-
|''[[Dawn Patrol (album)|Dawn Patrol]]''
|[[Night Ranger]]
| –
|-
|''Don't Play with Fire''
|[[Peabo Bryson]]
| –
|-
|''[[Going Where the Lonely Go]]''
|[[Merle Haggard]]
| –
|-
|''[[Here Comes the Night (Barry Manilow album)|Here Comes the Night]]''
|[[Barry Manilow]]
| –
|-
|''[[The High and the Mighty (album)|The High and the Mighty]]''
|[[Donnie Iris]]
| –
|-
|''[[Identity Crisis (Sweet album)|Identity Crisis]]''
|[[The Sweet|Sweet]]
| –
|-
|''[[It's Alright (I See Rainbows)]]''
|[[Yoko Ono]]
| –
|-
|''[[Killer on the Rampage]]''
|[[Eddy Grant]]
| –
|-
|''[[New Directions (Tavares album)|New Directions]]''
|[[Tavares (band)|Tavares]]
| –
|-
|''[[Oh, No! It's Devo]]''
|[[Devo]]
| –
|-
|''[[Pearls II]]''
|[[Elkie Brooks]]
| –
|-
|''[[Plastic Surgery Disasters]]''
|[[Dead Kennedys]]
| –
|-
|''[[Rip It Up (Orange Juice album)|Rip It Up]]''
|[[Orange Juice (band)|Orange Juice]]
| –
|-
|''[[Run for the Roses (album)|Run for the Roses]]''
|[[Jerry Garcia]]
| –
|-
|}