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No. Title 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"
Whitney Houston scored seven consecutive number-one singles during the 1980s, becoming the only artist in the chart's history to achieve this feat. During the 1980s, George Michael scored four number-one singles as a solo artist, three with Wham! and one as a duet with Aretha Franklin. Olivia Newton-John 's "Physical" remained the longest at ...
Upside Down (Diana Ross song) " Upside Down " is a song written and produced by Chic members Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards. It was recorded by American singer Diana Ross and issued on June 18, 1980 from Motown as the lead single from her eleventh studio album, Diana (1980). The song hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on September ...
Funkytown. " Funkytown " is a song by American disco - funk group Lipps Inc., written and produced by Steven Greenberg and released by Casablanca Records in March 1980 as the second single from the group's 1979 debut studio album Mouth to Mouth. The track was met with immediate commercial success, reaching number one on various record charts in ...
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.
The 1980s saw the emergence of electronic dance music and new wave, also known as Modern Rock. As disco fell out of fashion in the decade's early years, [1] genres such as post-disco, Italo disco, Euro disco, and dance-pop became more popular. Rock music continued to enjoy a wide audience. [2] Soft rock, [3] glam metal, thrash metal, shred ...
Billboard. (unrated) [2] " (Just Like) Starting Over " is a song written and performed by John Lennon from the 1980 album, Double Fantasy. It was released as a single on 24 October 1980 in the United Kingdom, [3] with Yoko Ono 's "Kiss Kiss Kiss" as the B-side. It reached number one in both the US and UK after Lennon was murdered on 8 December ...
Mainstream Rock number-one songs of the 1980s. When introduced by Billboard in March 1981, the Mainstream Rock chart was entitled Top Tracks and designed to measure the airplay of songs being played on album-oriented rock radio stations. The chart has undergone several name changes over the years, first to Top Rock Tracks in September 1984 and ...