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Youth Gone Wild: Heavy Metal Hits of the '80s is a series of compilation albums of heavy metal songs of the 1980s, the heyday of the genre. The title comes from the song by Skid Row , which does not appear in the series.
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.
He also wrote The Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums of All Time (2010). Popoff put together this book by requesting thousands of heavy metal fans, musicians, and journalists to send in their favorite metal songs. Almost 18,000 individual votes were tallied and entered into a database from which the final rankings were derived.
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.
Mass (Ger) - Metal Fighter; Max Havoc – Max Havoc; Max Lynx – Take One; McCoy – McCoy (EP) Mercyful Fate – Melissa; Metallica – Kill 'Em All; Metal Massacre - Metal Massacre III (Compilation, various artists) Metal Massacre - Metal Massacre IV (Compilation, various artists) Mindless Sinner – Master of Evil (EP) Molly Hatchet – No ...
In the early 1980s, the new wave of British heavy metal broke into the mainstream, as albums by Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Saxon and Motörhead, reached the British top 10. In 1981, Motörhead became the first of this new breed of metal bands to top the UK charts with No Sleep 'til Hammersmith.
This is a list of heavy metal artists from the formative years of the movement (formed between 1963 and 1981). For bands formed after 1981, please consult the lists for each heavy metal subgenre. In the late 1960s, a number of bands began pushing the limits of blues rock into a new genre which would be called heavy metal. [1] [2]
John Bonham, drummer for Led Zeppelin, dies at 32 on September 25, [3] after a binge of heavy drinking. His death was similar to Bon Scott's, and caused Led Zeppelin to disband. April: Brian Johnson joins AC/DC replacing Bon Scott as lead singer.