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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.
"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 Day" Tony Carey: 1 April 7 "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" Phil Collins: 1 April 14 "You Might Think" The Cars: 3 May 5 "Oh Sherrie" Steve Perry: 2 May 19 "Run Runaway" Slade: 2 June 2 "Magic ...
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.
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.
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 .
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.
This is a list of alternative rock artists. Bands are listed alphabetically by the first letter in their name (not including "The"), and individuals are listed by the first name.
The following is a list of artists and bands associated with the new wave music genre during the late 1970s and early-to-mid 1980s. The list does not include acts associated with the resurgences and revivals of the genre that have occurred from the 1990s onward.