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This is a list of 1980s music albums that multiple music journalists, magazines, and professional music review websites have considered to be among the best of the 1980s and of all time, separated into the years of each album's release. The albums listed here are included on at least four separate "best/greatest of the 1980s/all time" lists ...
These are the Billboard magazine number-one albums of 1980, per the Billboard 200. Pink Floyd 's The Wall was the best-selling album of 1980, and spent 15 consecutive weeks at number one. Chart history
This is a list of the world's best-selling albums of recorded music in physical mediums, such as vinyl, audio cassettes or compact discs. To appear on the list, the figure must have been published by a reliable source and the album must have sold at least 20 million copies and certified at least 10 million units (the equivalent of a diamond ...
Jackson scored 9 #1 singles and 16 top 10 singles on the Billboard charts. Madonna scored 7 #1 singles, and 16 top 5 singles, and 17 top 10 singles. [3] Whitney Houston is the only artist to have seven consecutive number-one singles on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, from "Saving All My Love for You" in 1985 to "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" in 1988.
For the chart's 25th anniversary in 2013, Billboard published a list of the 100 biggest hits in the history of the Alternative chart. "Uprising" by Muse was listed at No. 1, having spent 17 weeks on the top of the chart and 53 weeks in total. "Savior" by Rise Against was listed at No. 2, peaking at #3 but staying on the chart for a record ...
May 4 – America's Top 10, the television version of radio's American Top 40 and hosted by Casey Kasem, debuts this week in syndication. May 18 – Ian Curtis, vocalist of pioneering post-punk group Joy Division, hangs himself, one day before Joy Division are scheduled to begin their first U.S. tour. June 25
The 1980s were hip-hop’s first full decade as a documented musical genre on record, and from ’80 to ’89, rap grew from single to albums, from party songs to social commentary, from simple ...
The magazine conducted a reader's poll for the "10 Best Pop-Punk Albums of All Time" that ultimately included Green Day (Dookie, American Idiot, Nimrod), Blink-182 (Enema of the State, Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, Dude Ranch), the Ramones , the Offspring (Smash), Jimmy Eat World (Bleed American), and Generation X (Valley of the Dolls).