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(pictured) had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100, including the year's biggest hit, Careless Whisper. Madonna (pictured) had five songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1985. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 singles of 1985. [1]
April 1 – After months of squabbling, David Lee Roth leaves Van Halen to begin a solo career. [6]April 7 – Wham! becomes the first Western pop group to perform in China when they play a concert in Beijing's Workers Stadium during an historic 10-day visit.
These are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits of 1985. The two longest running number-one singles of 1985 are "We Are the World" by USA for Africa and "Say You, Say Me" by Lionel Richie which each logged four weeks at number-one. "Say You, Say Me" logged two weeks at number-one in 1985 and two more additional weeks in 1986, reaching a total ...
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This is a list of singles that have peaked in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 during 1985. Overall, a total of 113 singles hit the top-ten, a big rise from 99 top-ten singles from the previous year, including 27 number-one singles and 10 number-two singles.
In the United States in October 1985, the single topped Billboard's Hot 100, bolstered by the wide exposure on MTV of director Steve Barron's innovative music video featuring the band in a live-action pencil-sketch animation sequence. The video won six awards and was nominated for two others at the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards.
In 1985, Guitar Player magazine awarded Steve Lynch "Guitar Solo of the Year" for his work on "Turn Up the Radio." [13] The song's video was placed on New York Times list of the 15 Essential Hair-Metal Videos. [19] The song is featured in the soundtrack of the 2002 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City on the game's fictional VRock radio station.
Supported by the groundbreaking computer-animated video of "Money for Nothing", [24] the album spent nine weeks at the top, and sold over three million copies by the end of the year. [12] Rock band Heart released a self-titled album that sold more than two million copies in 1985, and contained four top ten songs, including the number-one single ...