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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.
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Beginning in 1983 and peaking in success in 1986–1989, the decade saw the resurgence of hard rock music and the emergence of its glam metal subgenre. Bands such as Def Leppard , Mötley Crüe , Bon Jovi , Quiet Riot , Europe , Ratt , Twisted Sister , Poison , Whitesnake , and Cinderella were among the most popular acts of the decade.
This is a list of American grunge bands. It includes rock bands and solo artists formed in the USA whose primary genre is grunge or either they have or had the elements of it in their music style. Grunge music is a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged during the mid-1980s in the American state of Washington , particularly in the Seattle area.
With the strong impact of Argentine and Spanish rock bands by the mid-1980s, the local Mexican scene would begin to develop acts that would generate an identity of its own. Among these were bands like Size , El Tri , Maldita Vecindad , Los Amantes de Lola , Kerigma, Neón, Rostros Ocultos , Kenny y los Eléctricos , Maná and Caifanes .
Synth-pop (also known as electropop or technopop) [1] [2] is a music genre that uses the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. With the genre becoming popular in the late 1970s and 1980s, the following article is a list of notable synth-pop acts, listed by the first letter in their name (not including articles such as "a", "an", or "the").
At the beginning of the 1980s, sales of singles and albums in the United Kingdom were compiled on behalf of the British music industry by the British Market Research Bureau (BMRB). This continued until the end of 1982, when the contract to compile the UK charts was won by Gallup , who took over on 4 January 1983, the first working day of 1983 ...
With nine number-one hits attained in the 1980s and 1990s, LL Cool J emerged as one of the most successful artists on the Billboard rap chart. Hot Rap Songs is a record chart published by the music industry magazine Billboard which ranks the most popular hip hop songs in the United States.