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Like Omigod! The 80s Pop Culture Box (Totally) is a seven-disc, 142-track box set of popular music hits of the 1980s. Released by Rhino Records in 2002, the box set was based on the success of Have a Nice Decade: The 70s Pop Culture Box, Rhino's box set covering the 1970s. Original release sets had a 3D rubber cover.
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.
Pocket Rockers was a brand of personal stereo produced by Fisher-Price in the late 1980s, aimed at elementary school-age children. [1] They played a proprietary variety of miniature cassette (appearing to be a smaller version of the 8-track tape) which was released only by Fisher-Price themselves.
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.
Madonna pulled up to the first-ever MTV Video Music Awards in 1984 wearing this now-iconic bridal-inspired look. She would later perform "Like A Virgin" and immediately become an MTV icon.
In 1990, the Earth Communications Office, a coalition formed within the US entertainment industry focused on the environment, launched a movement called “Ban the Box” in an effort to eliminate longboxes. [5] [6] The satirical band Spinal Tap's 1992 studio album Break Like the Wind was sold in an "extra-long box" (an 18 inches (46 cm) longbox).
The song's music video was directed by Jon Small. It achieved medium rotation on MTV. [5] The video features the band without both their trademark makeup and the slapstick comedy elements of some of their earlier videos. Snider told the Los Angeles Times Syndicate in 1987, "With the image in videos we had, people started saying we were a joke ...
Influential on the development of the neo-psychedelia and college rock music genres and on a number of bands, especially R.E.M. [24] [25] Pitchfork's Top 100 Albums of the 1980s: #65 [6] FACT's The 100 Best Albums of the 1980s: #47 [5] Rolling Stone's "80 Greatest albums of 1980": #63 [4] Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die ...