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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. George Michael was the only artist to achieve two year-end Billboard Hot 100 ...
The two longest running number-one singles of 1980 are "Call Me" by Blondie and "Lady" by Kenny Rogers with each single obtaining six weeks on top of the chart. Every song that went to number one for 1980 stayed on the Billboard Hot 100 over 20 weeks. [citation needed] That year, six acts hit number one for the first time, such as Queen, Pink ...
This is a list of songs that have peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and the magazine's national singles charts that preceded it. Introduced in 1958, the Hot 100 is the pre-eminent singles chart in the United States, currently monitoring the most popular singles in terms of popular radio play, single purchases and online streaming.
The first number one of the year was "Send One Your Love" by Stevie Wonder, which retained its position from the final chart of 1979, [2] and held the top spot for the first two weeks of 1980. In the issue of Billboard dated January 19, it was replaced at number one by "Déjà Vu" by Dionne Warwick, who returned to the number one position in ...
No. Title Artist(s) 1 "Call Me" Blondie: 2 "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II" Pink Floyd: 3 "Magic" Olivia Newton-John: 4 "Rock with You" Michael Jackson: 5 "Do That to Me One More Time"
In the early period, the issue dates and the chart dates given in Billboard were different until January 13, 1962, when the issue dates and the chart dates both referred to the week ending dates. [10] The Honor Roll of Hits chart was discontinued after November 16, 1963. [13] Billboard also publishes various music genre charts.
The Hot 100 Airplay chart ranks the most frequently played songs on United States radio stations, published by Billboard magazine. The chart was introduced in the magazine's issue dated October 20, 1984. During the 1980s, 132 songs topped the chart.
List of Billboard Hot 100 top ten singles in 1980 which peaked in 1979 Top ten entry date Single Artist(s) Peak Peak date Weeks in top ten October 20 "Still" Commodores: 1 November 17 13 November 3 "Babe" Styx: 1 December 8 11 November 24 "Send One Your Love" Stevie Wonder: 4 December 22 10 December 1 "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" Rupert ...