# 44
Singles Artist of the Year
Dionne started the year climbing
the charts with "Deja Vu."
from the LP Dionne
ARC chart run: 38 - 34 - 29 - 26 - 24 - 21 - 16 - 14 - 12 - 22 - 30 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 95
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Dionne won 2 Grammy Awards for Best Vocal Performance - Female ("I'll Never Love
This Way Again") and Best Female R&B
Vocal Performance ("Deja Vu").
Dionne hit the Top 40 with
"After You."
from the LP Dionne
ARC chart run: 40 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 262
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Dionne hit the Top 40 with
"No Night So Long."
from the LP No
Night So Long
ARC chart run: 36 - 33 - 26 - 23 - 21 - 19 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 148
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Dionne hit the Top 40 with
"Some Changes Are For
Good."
from the LP Hot!
Live And Otherwise
ARC chart run: 35 - 32 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 215
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# 81
Singles Artist of the Year
Dionne hit the Top 40 with Johnny
Mathis with "Friends In Love."
from the LP Friends
In Love
ARC chart run: 37 - 33 - 30 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 203
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Dionne hit the Top 40 with
"Heartbreaker."
from the LP Heartbreaker
ARC chart run: 39 - 35 - 32 - 28 - 23 - 19 - 17 - 15 - 13 - 11 - 8 - 8 - 7 - 15 - 31 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 54
# 67
Singles Artist of the Year
Dionne hit the Top 10 with "Heartbreaker."
Dionne hit the Top 40 with
"Take The Short Way Home."
from the LP Heartbreaker
ARC chart run: 39 - 37 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 211
Dionne hit the Top 40 with Luther Vandross with
"How Many Times Can We
Say Goodbye."
from the LP How
Many Times Can We Say Goodbye
ARC chart run: 37 - 31 - 25 - 23 - 34 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 173
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December 31: Dionne
topped the Billboard 1983
Year-End Chart Toppers as the Top Adult
Contemporary Artist - Female.
# 93
Singles Artist of the Year
Dionne & Friends (Elton John, Gladys Knight, and Stevie Wonder) hit #1 for 4 weeks
with "That's What Friends Are For."
ARC chart run: 35 - 26 - 17 - 13 - 9 - 4 - 4 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 2 - 5 - 11 - 23 - off
Dionne & Friends topped the
ARC Weekly Top 40 Year-End chart with
"That's What Friends Are For."
Dionne won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance by a
Duo or Group ("That's What Friends Are
For" with Elton John, Gladys Knight, and Stevie Wonder) and was nominated for
Record of the Year ("That's What
Friends Are For") and Best Female Pop
Vocal Performance (Dionne
And Friends).
Dionne was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal
Performance by a Duo or Group
("Superwoman" with Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle).
VH1: 100
Greatest Women of Rock & Roll included Dionne at # 42.
Rolling Stone:
50 Essential 'Woman In Rock' Albums included Presenting
Dionne at # 18.
# 259 on the Top Pop Artists
of the Past 25 Years chart.
Rolling Stone:
The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time included "Walk On
By" at # 70.
Dionne released My
Friends & Me (Entertainment
Weekly:
B).
January 26: Dionne was nominated
for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album (Now).
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