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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.
The 1980s produced chart-topping hits in pop, hip-hop, rock, and R&B. Here's a list of the best songs from the time, ranging from Toto to Michael Jackson.
After the chart failure of "Memorabilia", Phonogram Records allowed Soft Cell to record a second and final single in an attempt to score a chart success. The band opted to record a cover version of "Tainted Love", an obscure 1965 northern soul track originally released by Gloria Jones (the girlfriend of Marc Bolan at the time of his death) and written by Ed Cobb of the Four Preps.
"Crazy Little Thing Called Love" Queen: 7 "Coming Up" Paul McCartney: 8 "Funkytown" Lipps Inc. 9 "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me" Billy Joel: 10 "The Rose" Bette Midler: 11 "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" Rupert Holmes: 12 "Cars" Gary Numan: 13 "Cruisin" Smokey Robinson: 14 "Working My Way Back to You/Forgive Me, Girl" The Spinners: 15 "Lost ...
"Love Is a Battlefield" Pat Benatar: 2 November 5 "Heart and Soul" Huey Lewis and the News: 1 November 12 "Love Is a Battlefield" Pat Benatar 2 November 26 "Owner of a Lonely Heart" Yes: 4 December 24 "If I'd Been the One" .38 Special: 4 1984 January 21 "Jump" Van Halen: 8 March 17 "Got a Hold on Me" Christine McVie: 2 March 31 "A Fine, Fine ...
Soft Cell – Tainted Love; Heaven 17 – Temptation; Spandau Ballet – Chant No. 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On) The Human League – Love Action (I Believe in Love) Dead Or Alive – You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) Erasure – A Little Respect; Communards & Sarah Jane Morris – Don't Leave Me This Way; Wham! – Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
"Tainted Love" is a song composed by Ed Cobb, formerly of American group the Four Preps, which was originally recorded by Gloria Jones in 1964. [3] In 1981, the song attained worldwide fame after being covered and reworked by British synth-pop duo Soft Cell for their album Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret. The song has since been covered by numerous ...
The B-52s dropped "Love Shack" in 1989, and the song soon reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100. The track's ultra-catchy lyrics about a "funky little shack" off the side of an Atlanta highway are ...