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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.
During the 1980s, Culture Club had two number ones, including the best-selling single of 1983, "Karma Chameleon". Frontman Boy George would later achieve a solo number one in 1987. George Michael was one of the most successful artists of the 1980s, with three number-one singles as a solo artist and four as part of Wham!.
Paul Antony Young [4] (born 17 January 1956) [5] is an English musician, singer and songwriter. Formerly the frontman of the short-lived bands Kat Kool & the Kool Cats, Streetband and Q-Tips, he became a teen idol with his solo success in the 1980s.
Pages in category "British male singers" The following 80 pages are in this category, out of 80 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Dave Adams (musician)
The 1980s produced chart-topping hits in pop, hip-hop, rock, and R&B. ... And the music was so, so good. ... This catchy single earned Bobby Brown his first Grammy for Best Male R&B Vocals at the ...
Once Falco was signed as a solo artist, he continued composing his own music and hired songwriter Robert Ponger. In 1981, Falco brought his intended first single "Helden von heute" to manager Horst Bork, but received a lukewarm reception. Bork felt that the B-side "Der Kommissar" was much stronger. Falco was hesitant, since the track is a ...
His 1986 song "Addicted to Love" and its accompanying video came to "epitomise the glamour and excesses of the 1980s". [1] Having started in the music industry in the 1960s, including a spell with Vinegar Joe, Palmer found success in the 1980s, both in his solo career and with the Power Station, scoring Top 10 hits in the United Kingdom and the ...
The following is a list of artists and bands associated with the new wave music genre during the late 1970s and early-to-mid 1980s. The list does not include acts associated with the resurgences and revivals of the genre that have occurred from the 1990s onward.