| Top 40 Hits of April 1981 |
| 1 |
Bucks Fizz | Making Your Mind Up |
| 2 |
Shakin' Stevens | This Ole House |
| 3 |
Ennio Morricone | Chi Mai (Theme From 'Life And Times Of David Lloyd George') |
| 4 |
Stevie Wonder | Lately |
| 5 |
Landscape | Einstein A-Go-Go |
| 6 |
Sugar Minott | Good Thing Going |
| 7 |
Jacksons | Can You Feel It |
| 8 |
Graham Bonnet | Night Games |
| 9 |
Whispers | It's A Love Thing |
| 10 |
Kim Wilde | Kids in America |
| 11 |
Linx | Intuition |
| 12 |
Nolans | Attention to Me |
| 13 |
Hazel O'Connor | D-Days |
| 14 |
Starsound | Stars On 45 |
| 15 |
Bad Manners | Just a Feeling |
| 16 |
Dave Stewart With Colin Blunstone | What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted |
| 17 |
Tony Capstick & The Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band | Capstick Comes Home / The Sheffield Grinder |
| 18 |
Saxon | And The Bands Played On |
| 19 |
Toyah | Four From Toyah (EP) |
| 20 |
Spandau Ballet | Musclebound / Glow |
| 21 |
Madness | Grey Day |
| 22 |
Gillan | New Orleans |
| 23 |
Keith Marshall | Only Crying |
| 24 |
Visage | Mind of a Toy |
| 25 |
Public Image Ltd | Flowers Of Romance |
| 26 |
Eddy Grant | Can't Get Enough Of You |
| 27 |
Coast To Coast | (Do) The Hucklebuck |
| 28 |
Barry Manilow | Bermuda Triangle |
| 29 |
Duran Duran | Planet Earth |
| 30 |
Whitesnake | Don't Break My Heart Again |
| 31 |
Adam & The Ants | Kings Of The Wild Frontier |
| 32 |
Shalamar | Make That Move |
| 33 |
Quincy Jones | Ai No Corrida (I-No-Ko-Ree-Da) |
| 34 |
Roxy Music | Jealous Guy |
| 35 |
Department S | Is Vic There |
| 36 |
Beat | Drowning / All Out To Get You |
| 37 |
John Lennon | Watching The Wheels |
| 38 |
Kool & The Gang | Jones vs Jones / Summer Madness / Funky Stuff |
| 39 |
Girlschool | Hit And Run |
| 40 |
Teardrop Explodes | Reward |