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Madonna ranked as the most successful female artist of the 1980s, with 7 songs and 15 weeks atop the chart. Whitney Houston scored seven consecutive number-one singles during the 1980s, becoming the only artist in the chart's history to achieve this feat.
Many notable bands originally went by different names before becoming successful. [1] This list of original names of bands lists former official band names, some of them are significantly different from the eventual current names. This list does not include former band names that have only minor differences, such as stylisation changes, with ...
The following is a list of artists and bands associated with the city pop music genre during the late 1970s and 1980s (not necessarily solely city pop artists).. Groups and artists with aliases are listed by the first letter in their name, and individuals are listed by their surname.
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.
Dollar were a British pop vocal duo, comprising David Van Day and Anglo-Canadian Thereza Bazar.The duo were successful in the late 1970s and 1980s, achieving ten top 40 singles on the UK Singles Chart, including the top ten hits "Love's Gotta Hold on Me" (1979), "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" (1979), "Mirror Mirror" (1981), "Give Me Back My Heart" (1982) and "O l'amour" (1987).
A few years before he became an iconic piano man on the pop charts, Billy Joel played in a couple of hard-rocking psychedelic bands. One of them, Attila, was a duo featuring Joel playing distorted ...
Nick Massi (The Hollywood Playboys, among others [2] [3]) replaced Calello from late 1960 to September 1965.; Several studio albums and over 100 singles.Originally assembled from various New Jersey club groups, over the years, other notable names, including Don Ciccone (The Critters), John Paiva (The Happenings), Jerry Corbetta and session keyboardist Robby Robinson came and went as performers ...
Madonna was the best-selling female pop music artist of the decade. Her third studio release, True Blue, became the best-selling female album of the 1980s. Other Madonna albums from the decade include Like a Virgin, one of the best selling albums of all-time, and Like a Prayer ("As close to art as pop music gets," said Rolling Stone). Madonna ...