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Before 2004, the chart was only based on the sales of physical singles. [2] [3] This list shows singles that peaked in the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart during 1980, as well as singles which peaked in 1979 and 1981 but were in the top 10 in 1980. The entry date is when the single appeared in the top 10 for the first time (week ending, as ...
The best-selling singles of the 1980s were compiled for Gallup by chart statisticians Alan Jones and Bob Macdonald. [1] They were first revealed on BBC Radio 1 on 1 January 1990, with the "Top 80 of the 80s" counted down and played between 12:35 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. by DJs Alan Freeman and Mark Goodier . [ 2 ]
[No. 2]: The singles "Ghostbusters" and "Fairytale of New York" peaked at number two in the UK singles chart. "Last Christmas" peaked at number two upon its original release, but eventually reached number one in 2021. [No. 3]: "Blue Monday" was originally released as a 12" single in 1983, where it peaked at number 9 in the UK Singles Chart. It ...
16 September – Kate Bush becomes the first British female artist to reach number one in the UK album charts. 20 September – Ozzy Osbourne's debut album Blizzard of Ozz is released in the UK. 25 November – ABBA score the last of their nine number-one singles in the UK singles chart with "Super Trouper".
List of best-selling albums of the 1980s in the United Kingdom; List of best-selling singles of the 1980s in the United Kingdom; List of UK Albums Chart number ones of the 1980s; List of UK charts and number-one singles (1969–1988)
This is a list of the number-one singles of the UK Indie Chart. Lists of UK Independent Singles Chart number ones of the 1980s; List of UK Independent Singles Chart ...
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In the early 1980s hi energy disco had become popular in the gay scene of American cities like New York and San Francisco with acts like Divine, and The Weather Girls. [22] In 1983 in the UK, music magazine Record Mirror championed the gay underground sound and began publishing a weekly Hi-NRG Chart. [23]