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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]
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 ...
January 1 – The newest music video channel, VH-1, begins broadcasting on American cable. It is aimed at an older demographic than its sister station, MTV. The first video played is Marvin Gaye's rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner". [1] January 11
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.
Michael Jackson had the highest number of top hits at the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (9 songs). In addition, Jackson remained the longest at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (27 weeks). Madonna ranked as the most successful female artist of the 1980s, with 7 songs and 15 weeks atop the chart.
Stevie Wonder led a rendition of “We Are the World” as clips from the original 1985 music video played in the background, backed by a choir of students from two schools that burned in the Los ...
The band Alabama had four number ones in 1985. Hot Country Songs is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. In 1985, 51 different songs topped the chart, then published under the title Hot Country Singles, in 52 issues of the magazine, based on playlists submitted by ...
In 1985, Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A., spent the whole year inside the Top 10 (including three weeks at number one) and ended at the top of the year-end chart, helped by five singles that reached the Top 10 throughout the year, and also a world tour that covered North America, Europe and Australia.