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This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1980. [1] [2] No. Title Artist(s) 1 "Call Me" Blondie: 2 "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II" Pink Floyd ...
These are the Billboard magazine number-one albums of 1980, per the Billboard 200. Pink Floyd 's The Wall was the best-selling album of 1980, and spent 15 consecutive weeks at number one. Chart history
During the 1980s the chart was based collectively on each single's weekly physical sales figures and airplay on American radio stations. George Michael was the only artist to achieve two year-end Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles in the 1980s. He achieved this with his songs "Faith" and "Careless Whisper".
That year, six acts hit number one for the first time, such as Queen, Pink Floyd, Lipps Inc., Billy Joel, Christopher Cross, and Kenny Rogers. John Lennon was the fourth artist to hit number one posthumously, after his death in December 1980. The British rock band Queen was the only act to achieve multiple number-one songs during the year with ...
Live album and soundtrack album to the concert film of the same name. Pitchfork's Top 100 Albums of the 1980s: #68 [6] UNCUT: The 500 Greatest Albums of The 1980's: #192 [10] Slant's 100 Best Albums of the 1980's: #61 [62] Popkultur.de's 100 Best Albums of the 1980s: #88 [172] October 2, 1984 () Let It Be: The Replacements: Post-punk; indie rock
January 1. Cliff Richard is appointed an MBE by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.; January 5 – Donna Summer's third double album in a 14-month period, On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes I & II, released on 15 October 1979, reaches the top spot on the Billboard Albums charts.
When an established rock artist released a new album, for example, it was not uncommon for multiple songs from the album to become popular simultaneously. [1] The song that had the longest run atop the chart during the 1980s was "Start Me Up" by the Rolling Stones at 13 weeks from the beginning of September through the first week of December in ...
This is a list of singles that have peaked in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 during 1980. The longest running top-ten single of the year was "Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen with 15 weeks. Kenny Rogers, Air Supply, and Michael Jackson each had three top-ten hits in 1980, tying them for the most top-ten hits during the year.