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The Billboard Hot 100 is the main song chart of the American music industry and is updated every week by the Billboard magazine. During the 1980s the chart was based collectively on each single's weekly physical sales figures and airplay on American radio stations.
Dead or Alive, also from Liverpool, was another popular dance-pop band in the mid-1980s. It was fronted by lead singer Pete Burns . Probably the most successful British pop band of the era was the duo Wham! with an unusual mix of disco , soul , ballads , and even rap , who had eleven top ten hits in the UK, six of them number ones, between 1982 ...
By the mid-1980s, country music audiences were beginning to tire of country-pop. Although some pop-country artists continued to record and release successful songs and albums, the genre, in general, was beginning to suffer. By 1985, a New York Times article declared country music "dead". However, by this time, several newcomers were working ...
The 1980s (pronounced "nineteen-eighties", shortened to "the '80s" or "the Eighties") was the decade that began on January 1, 1980, and ended on December 31, 1989.. The decade saw a dominance of conservatism and free market economics, and a socioeconomic change due to advances in technology and a worldwide move away from planned economies and towards laissez-faire capitalism compared to the 1970s.
In its ’80s-style campy feel, the flick became a reference for teen comedies. ... Farrah Fawcett, and Jaclyn Smith, became cultural icons. ... Pop culture and entertainment are full of impactful ...
"Pop Muzik" M: 41 "Brass in Pocket" The Pretenders: 42 "Special Lady" Ray, Goodman & Brown: 43 "Send One Your Love" Stevie Wonder: 44 "The Second Time Around" Shalamar: 45 "We Don't Talk Anymore" Cliff Richard: 46 "Stomp!" The Brothers Johnson: 47 "Heartache Tonight" Eagles: 48 "Tired of Toein' the Line" Rocky Burnette: 49 "Better Love Next ...
It seems ridiculous even now to say that their unabashed affection for those garish fashions, the Partridge Family, Mackenzie Phillips and other pop-culture icons of their childhood was visionary ...
By the mid-1980s, bhangra was the most popular music among British Asians and a youth scene of daytime bhangra raves were a major part of a growing youth culture. [48] Multitone Records began to release remix albums, and bhangra picked up influences from hip hop and soul, producing groups like X-executive Sounds and Hustlers convention.