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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.
Significant to the development of house, techno, and ambient techno music of the late 1980s and early 1990s. [249] [250] [251] Pitchfork's Top 100 Albums of the 1980s: #79 [6] FACT's The 100 Best Albums of the 1980s: #4 [5] UNCUT: The 500 Greatest Albums of The 1980s: #165 [10] Treble's 150 Best Albums of the 1980s: #52 [142]
"Music Box Dancer" Frank Mills: 50 "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" The Charlie Daniels Band: 51 "Gold" John Stewart: 52 "Goodnight Tonight" Wings: 53 "We Are Family" Sister Sledge: 54 "Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy" Bad Company: 55 "Every 1's a Winner" Hot Chocolate: 56 "Take Me Home" Cher: 57 "Boogie Wonderland" Earth, Wind & Fire & The Emotions: 58 ...
The song that had the longest run atop the chart during the 1980s was "Start Me Up" by the Rolling Stones at 13 weeks from the beginning of September through the first week of December in 1981. No other song had a run of more than 10 weeks. Tom Petty (with and without the Heartbreakers) was the act with the most number ones during the 1980s with 6.
Call Me" by Blondie was the number one song of 1980. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1980. [1] [2] No. Title Artist(s) 1 ... 1980 in music;
Classic Rock was a 31-volume series issued by Time Life during the late 1980s and early 1990s. The series spotlighted popular music played on Top 40 radio stations of the mid-to-late-1960s. Much like Time-Life's other series chronicling popular music, volumes in the "Classic Rock" series covered a specific time period, including single years in ...
Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music, broadly characterized as classic rock and pop rock, from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as well as for a radio format playing this music.