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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.
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".
50 "Him" Rupert Holmes: 51 "Against the Wind" Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band: 52 "On the Radio" Donna Summer: 53 "Emotional Rescue" The Rolling Stones: 54 "Rise" Herb Alpert: 55 "All Out of Love" Air Supply: 56 "Cool Change" Little River Band: 57 "You're Only Lonely" JD Souther: 58 "Desire" Andy Gibb: 59 "Let My Love Open the Door" Pete ...
The Bee Gees scored the most number-one hits (9 songs) and had the longest cumulative run atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart (27 weeks) during the 1970s. Rod Stewart remained at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 17 weeks during the 1970s. Elton John amassed the second-most number-one hits on the Hot 100 chart during the 1970s (6 songs). #
Classic hits is a radio format which generally includes songs from the top 40 music charts from the late 1960s to the early 2000s, with music from the 1980s serving as the core of the format. Music that was popularized by MTV [ 1 ] in the early 1980s and the nostalgia behind it [ 2 ] is a major driver to the format.
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 then to Album Rock Tracks in April 1986.
"The Greatest Love of All" Whitney Houston May 16 May 23 "Live to Tell" Madonna May 30 June 6 June 13 "On My Own" Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald June 20 "No One Is to Blame" Howard Jones: June 27 "There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)" Billy Ocean July 4 "Invisible Touch" Genesis: July 11 July 18 "Sledgehammer" Peter Gabriel: July 25 "Glory ...
Absolute Radio 80s launched at 7.00 pm on 4 December 2009, replacing Absolute Xtreme. [1]The marketing plan for Absolute 80s started with targeted sampling at 80s events such as Madness, Pet Shop Boys and Depeche Mode at the O2 Arena, Erasure at the NEC Birmingham and Simple Minds at the Wembley Arena.