 Diamond hit the
Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with
"I've Been This Way Before."
Year-End Chart
Position: # 248
 Diamond topped the charts with Barbra
Streisand with "You Don't Bring Me
Flowers."
from the LP Barbra
Streisand's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
Billboard
chart run: 31 - 16 - 5 - 4 - 1 - 3 - 1 -
3 - 3 - 4 - 4 - 6 - 12 - 26 - 36 - off
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
 # 33
Singles Artist of the Year
 Diamond hit the Top 40 with
"September Morn."
from the
LP September
Morn
ARC chart run: 32 - 28 - 25 - 22 - 18 - 15 - 13 - 26 - 37 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 115
available for download at Amazon.mp3
 Diamond was nominated for 2 Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance by a
Duo or Group ("You Don't Bring Me
Flowers" with Barbra
Streisand).
Diamond hit the Top 40 "Love On The Rocks."
from The
Jazz Singer soundtrack
 ARC chart run: 26 - 20 - 17 - 11 - 8 - 5 - 5 - 4 - 2 - 1 - 4 - 8 - 10 - 13 - 16 - 26 - 34 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 16
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
 # 5
Singles Artist of the Year (# 1
Male Artist of the Year)
Diamond hit #1 for a week with "Love On The Rocks."
 Diamond hit the
Top 40 with "Hello Again."
from The
Jazz Singer soundtrack
ARC chart run: 32 - 24 - 19 - 15 - 10 - 6 - 4 - 4 - 2 - 2 - 8 - 16 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 48
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
Diamond hit the
Top 10 with "Hello Again."
 Diamond hit the Top 40 with
"America."
from The
Jazz Singer soundtrack
ARC chart run: 35 - 24 - 17 - 13 - 12 - 9 - 7 - 6 - 5 - 22 - 27 - 37 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 63
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
Diamond hit the Top 10 with "America."
 Diamond hit the Top 40 with
"Yesterday's Songs."
from the LP On
The Way To The Sky
ARC chart run: 35 - 23 - 19 - 16 - 13 - 12 - 11 - 9 - 9 - 22 - 36 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 77
Diamond topped the Billboard 1981
Year-End Chart Toppers with the Top
Soundtrack (The
Jazz Singer).
 # 19
Singles Artist of the Year
Diamond hit the Top 10 with "Yesterday's Songs."
 Diamond hit the Top 40 with
"On The Way To The Sky."
from the LP On
The Way To The Sky
ARC chart run: 39 - 36 - 31 - 27 - 26 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 183
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
 Diamond hit the Top 40 with
"Be Mine Tonight."
from the LP On
The Way To The Sky
ARC chart run: 38 - 34 - 32 - 30 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 195
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
Diamond hit the Top 40 and Top 10 with "Heartlight."
 from the LP Heartlight
ARC chart run: 33 - 27 - 17 - 13 - 9 - 6 - 4 - 4 - 3 - 8 - 16 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 48
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
 Diamond hit the Top 40 with
"I'm Alive."
from the LP Heartlight
ARC chart run: 39 - 35 - 30 - 25 - 23 - 23 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 161
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
 At the American Music
Awards Diamond was honored with the Award of Merit.
 Diamond released As
Time Goes By - The Movie Album.
Diamond was
nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal
Performance (As
Time Goes By - The Movie Album).
 Rolling Stone:
The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time included The Neil Diamond
Collection (1999) at # 222.
# 139 on the Top Pop Artists
of the Past 25 Years chart.
 Diamond released the critically
acclaimed 12
Songs.
Diamond released Home
Before Dark (Rolling Stone:  ).
Diamond topped the Billboard 200
LP chart for the first time with Home
Before Dark. The set sold over 146,000
copies its first week of release in the US.
Diamond topped the UK LP charts
with Home
Before Dark.
 Home
Before Dark was certified gold.
Diamond performed at the Grammy Awards.
 Diamond released the live LP Hot
August Night NYC exclusively at Walmart
and Sam's Club (Billboard peak: # 2).
Diamond released A
Cherry Cherry Christmas (available for
download at iTunes and Amazon-mp3).
 Diamond released Dreams.
The
Bang Years was released.
Diamond was inducted into the
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
 Very
Best Of Neil Diamond was released.
Diamond released the holiday LP Classic
Christmas Album.
 March 31: The 3CD set 50th Anniversary
Collection was released.
Billboard
Top 200 LPs
peak: # 78
Tracks: "Solitary
Man" - "Cherry, Cherry" -
"I Got The Feelin' (Oh No, No)"
- "You Got To Me" - "Girl,
You'll Be A Woman Soon" - "I'm
A Believer" - "Thank The Lord
For The Night TIme" - "Red, Red
Wine" - "Sunday Sun" -
"Shilo" - "Kentucky
Woman" - "Brooklyn Roads"
- "Glory Road" - "Holy
Holy" - "And The Grass Won't
Pay No Mind" - "Sweet
Caroline" - "Brother Love's
Traveling Salvation Show" -
"Done Too Soon" -
"Soolaimon" - "Cracklin'
Rosie" - "Crunchy Granola
Suite" - "I Am... I Said"
- "Stones" - "morning
Side" - "Song Sung Blue" -
"Play Me" - "Be
(Recapitulation And Farewell To
Fletcher" - "Skybird" -
"Lonely Looking Sky" -
"I've Been Down This Way
Before" - "Longfellow
Serenade" - "Beautiful
Noise" - "Street Life" -
"If You Know What I Mean" -
"Desiree" - "You Don't
Bring Me Flowers" - "Forever In
Blue Jeans" - September Morn" -
"The Story Of My Life" -
"Yesterday's Songs" - "I
Believe In Happy Endings" -
"Hello Again" - "Love On
The Rocks" - "Heartlight"
- "Lady-Oh" - "Pretty
Amazing Grace" - "Hell
Yeah" - "We" - "The
Art Of Love" - "America"
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
 November 20: Classic Diamonds With
The London Symphony Orchestra was released.
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
available on vinyl
Live Tracks: "Beautiful
Noise" - "Hello Again" -
"I Am... I Said" - "I'm A
Believer" - "Song Sung
Blue" - "September Morn" -
"America" - "Holy
Holy" - "You Don't Bring Me
Flowers" - "Play Me" -
"Love On The Rocks" -
"Heartlight" - "I've Been
This Way Before" - "Sweet
Caroline"
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position links lead you to the song's Top
40 chart run (from the ARC Weekly Top
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and LP links take you to Amazon.com for that LP (often
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