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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.
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.
Samples and interpolations of old songs in hip hop songs were common in the 1990s as a way to celebrate the end of the 2nd millennium and the 20th century by going retro. Many of the following songs include samples from older songs: " U Can't Touch This " by MC Hammer ; " Jump Around " by House of Pain ; " Mo Money Mo Problems " and " Big Poppa ...
Each album features 14 hit recordings from a specific decade of the late 20th century. Three albums were released, one each from the 1970s, the 1980s and the 1990s. Each album contains 14 tracks, with the songs representing stylistic trends in popular music, novelty hits, theme songs from television and movies and the most popular acts of the ...
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.
Praised for its glitch music styling methods involving literally deconstructing music and digital audio by using exacto knives, paint, and tape to damage the surfaces of compact discs to stitch back together. [356] Pitchfork's "The 150 Best Albums of the 1990s": #132 [15] Fact's "The 100 Best Albums of the 1990s": #21 [243]
Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music [1] to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the 1980s to the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quiet storm and rock influence.
Quiet storm songs are a mix of genres, including pop, contemporary R&B, smooth soul, smooth jazz and jazz fusion – songs having an easy-flowing and romantic character. The format first appeared in 1976 but initially it drew from songs recorded earlier.