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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.
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.
Olivia Newton-John's song "Physical" was the Billboard Hot 100's longest running number one of the decade.. Reflecting on changes in the music industry during the 1980s, Robert Christgau later wrote in Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s (1990):
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 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.
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 ...
Duran Duran Studio album by Duran Duran Released 15 June 1981 (1981-06-15) Recorded December 1980 – January 1981 Studio Red Bus and Utopia (London) Chipping Norton (Oxfordshire) Genre Synth-pop new wave Length 39: 42 Label EMI Producer Colin Thurston Duran Duran chronology Duran Duran (1981) Rio (1982) 1983 US reissue Singles from Duran Duran "Planet Earth" Released: 2 February 1981 ...
Lost 80's Live is a collection of musical artists from the time period of the 1980s that perform a live concert. [1] The concert tour usually consists of 10 to 12 bands that span the music genres of new wave , synthpop , rock , pop and electronic music .