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Michael Jackson had the highest number of top hits at the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (9 songs). In addition, Jackson remained the longest at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (27 weeks). Madonna ranked as the most successful female artist of the 1980s, with 7 songs and 15 weeks atop the chart.
The 1980s produced chart-topping hits in pop, hip-hop, rock, and R&B. Here's a list of the best songs from the time, ranging from Toto to Michael Jackson.
Artist(s) 1 "Call Me" Blondie: 2 "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II" Pink Floyd: 3 "Magic" Olivia Newton-John: 4 "Rock with You" Michael Jackson: 5 "Do That to Me One More Time" Captain & Tennille: 6 "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" Queen: 7 "Coming Up" Paul McCartney: 8 "Funkytown" Lipps Inc. 9 "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me" Billy Joel: 10 ...
[84] [85] Artists in the new music genre included Saki Kubota. [86] Rock bands included Rebecca and the Southern All Stars. [87] Artists in the electronic music genre included Yellow Magic Orchestra. The song "Hana" (1980) by Shoukichi Kina was a hit overseas, and sold 30 million copies. [88] Eiichi Ohtaki released A Long Vacation. [89]
No sound for the first 7 seconds of the video, then it plays normally. 6 "We Don't Talk Anymore" Cliff Richard: 1/2 7 "Brass in Pocket" The Pretenders: 1/2 8 "Time Heals" Todd Rundgren: 1/3 9* "Take It on the Run" REO Speedwagon: 1/3 This was the first concert video to be aired on MTV, from REO Speedwagon's Live Infidelity home video release.
Since Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" in 2009, every video that has reached the top of the "most-viewed YouTube videos" list has been a music video. In November 2005, a Nike advertisement featuring Brazilian football player Ronaldinho became the first video to reach 1,000,000 views. [1] The billion-view mark was first passed by Gangnam Style in ...
Artist(s) 1 "Faith" George Michael: 2 "Need You Tonight" INXS: 3 "Got My Mind Set on You" George Harrison: 4 "Never Gonna Give You Up" Rick Astley: 5 "Sweet Child o' Mine" Guns N' Roses: 6 "So Emotional" Whitney Houston: 7 "Heaven Is a Place on Earth" Belinda Carlisle: 8 "Could've Been" Tiffany: 9 "Hands to Heaven" Breathe: 10 "Roll with It ...
Queen scored two #1 hits with "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" and "Another One Bites the Dust" in 1980. Kenny Rogers scored his first #1 hit with "Lady" in 1980. John Lennon (pictured in 1969) became the fourth solo act to have a number-one hit posthumously after he was murdered in December 1980 with "(Just Like) Starting Over", reaching #1 in 1980 and 1981.