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The following list of glam metal albums and songs is a list containing albums and songs described by at least one professional source as glam metal or its interchangeable terms, hair metal, [1] [2] lite metal, [2] pop metal, [2] and metal pop. [3]
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.
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.
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.
As the decade progressed, a growing trend in the music industry was to promote songs to radio without the release of a commercially available singles in an attempt by record companies to boost albums sales. Because such a release was required to chart on the Hot 100, many popular songs that were hits on top 40 radio never made it onto the chart.
Classic Rock and Metal Hammer's 200 Greatest Albums of the 90s [87] 12 May 1992 The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion: The Black Crowes: Blues rock [133] Def American: Classic Rock's Greatest Albums of the 90's: #10 [44] Uncut's "The 500 Greatest Albums of the 1990s": #114 [3] Rock Hard magazine's The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of ...
Kerrang! magazine described it as the "heaviest album of all time,"[16] while Metal Hammer magazine named it "the best metal album of the last 20 years."[17] Jeff "Mantas" Dunn leaves British band Venom to pursue a solo career.
A list of notable bands and artists who emerged during the new wave of American heavy metal era of music in the early to mid-1990s: