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During the 1980s the chart was based collectively on each single's weekly physical sales figures and airplay on American radio stations. George Michael was the only artist to achieve two year-end Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles in the 1980s. He achieved this with his songs "Faith" and "Careless Whisper".
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The Hot 100 Airplay chart ranks the most frequently played songs on United States radio stations, published by Billboard magazine. The chart was introduced in the magazine's issue dated October 20, 1984. During the 1980s, 132 songs topped the chart.
As the decade progressed, a growing trend in the music industry was to promote songs to radio without the release of a commercially available singles in an attempt by record companies to boost albums sales. Because such a release was required to chart on the Hot 100, many popular songs that were hits on top 40 radio never made it onto the chart.
Songs stayed on the chart for a long time and fewer songs made it on the chart. Ten songs had runs at number one of ten weeks or longer during the 1990s, with the longest coming from "Touch, Peel and Stand" by Days of the New at 16 weeks. ("Higher" by Creed spent 17 weeks at the top of the chart but its last couple of weeks ran into the year 2000).
When an established rock artist released a new album, for example, it was not uncommon for multiple songs from the album to become popular simultaneously. [1] The song that had the longest run atop the chart during the 1980s was "Start Me Up" by the Rolling Stones at 13 weeks from the beginning of September through the first week of December in ...
The Official Band from the 80’s! Origin: San Diego, California, U.S. Genres: New wave, power pop: Years active: 1982–1988, 2019-present: Labels: Alfa: Members: Bob "Monroe" Davis Dave Hart Ronny Jones Barry Scott Bobby Sale: Past members: Eric Denton Jesus "Tony" Ortiz Rusty Jones Jonnie Gilstrap