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This is the Recorded Music NZ list of number-one albums in New Zealand during the 1980s decade. Dire Straits' 1985 album Brothers in Arms spent a total of 21 weeks at No. 1. . Split Enz's album Time and Tide was the most successful album by a New Zealand artist, spending a total of six weeks at No.
Rock music in New Zealand, also known as Kiwi rock music and New Zealand rock music, [1] rose to prominence first in 1955 with Johnny Cooper's cover version of Bill Haley's hit song "Rock Around the Clock". This was followed by Johnny Devlin, sometimes nicknamed New Zealand's Elvis Presley, and his cover of "Lawdy Miss Clawdy".
The following lists the number-one singles on the New Zealand Singles Chart during the 1980s. The source for this decade is the Recorded Music NZ chart, the chart history of which can be found on the Recorded Music NZ website or Charts.nz. [1] [2] A total of 150 singles topped the chart in the 1980s, including 20 by New Zealand artists.
The Dunedin sound can be traced back to the emergence of punk rock as a musical influence in New Zealand in the late 1970s. Isolated from the country's main punk scene in Auckland (which had been influenced by bands such as England's Buzzcocks), Dunedin's punk groups, such as The Enemy (which became Toy Love) and The Same (which later developed into The Chills), developed a sound more heavily ...
3 The Hard Way – hip-hop band; "Hip Hop Holiday" (1994) reached #1 [1] The 3Ds; ... (was born and lived in New Zealand until at the age of 7) John Rowles – singer;
Pages in category "New Zealand rock music groups" The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Sweetwaters Music Festival was a series of events held between 1980 and 1999, at venues such as a farm in Ngāruawāhia, then further north on a farm near Pukekawa, and finally at South Auckland, New Zealand. Sweetwaters music 1980
DD Smash was a New Zealand pop/rock band formed in 1980 by Dave Dobbyn after the breakup of Th' Dudes. The band briefly used the name "Dave Dobbyn's Divers" [1] until drummer Peter Warren came up with "DD Smash". Dobbyn says the name "seemed to say everything about what we were into, which was having a jolly good time and blasting out music." [2]