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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.
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 ...
Bleachers (band) Blended 328; Blood on the Dance Floor (band) Bloodstone (band) Blue Foundation; Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods; Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans; Bones (band) The Boswell Sisters; Boy Krazy; Boyce Avenue; Boyz II Men; Boyz N Girlz United; The Brass Ring; Brazzaville (band) Brit & Alex; Brox Sisters; Bullet (American band) Burnham (band)
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.
Dead or Alive, also from Liverpool, was another popular dance-pop band in the mid-1980s. It was fronted by lead singer Pete Burns . Probably the most successful British pop band of the era was the duo Wham! with an unusual mix of disco , soul , ballads , and even rap , who had eleven top ten hits in the UK, six of them number ones, between 1982 ...
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. The 1980s saw the emergence of wildly popular hard rock band Guns N' Roses and the successful comebacks of Aerosmith and Alice Cooper in the late 1980s.
The list does not include acts associated with the resurgences and revivals of the genre that have occurred from the 1990s onward. Acts associated with these revivals are found in the list of post-punk revival bands article. Groups and artists with aliases are listed by the first letter in their name, and individuals are listed by their surname.
The song was ranked No. 44 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the '80s. [11] Billboard named the song No. 13 on their list of the "100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time". [12] Their second album, Bananarama (UK No. 16, US No. 30) was released in 1984.