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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.
The Top 500 Heavy Metal Songs of All Time. ECW Press. ISBN 978-1-55022-530-3. Popoff, Martin (2014). The Big Book of Hair Metal: The Illustrated Oral History of Heavy Metal's Debauched Decade. Voyageur Press. ISBN 978-0-76034-546-7. Powell, Mark Allan (2002). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music (First printing ed.). Hendrickson Publisher.
During the 1980s the chart was based collectively on each single's weekly physical sales figures and airplay on American radio stations. George Michael was the only artist to achieve two year-end Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles in the 1980s. He achieved this with his songs "Faith" and "Careless Whisper".
The Fugees made some of the decade's most powerful and groundbreaking music; this 1996 hit comes from Lauryn Hill's debut as a solo artist. Peter Pakvis - Getty Images "This Kiss" by Faith Hill (1998)
The ’90s were the twilight of music’s analog era. It was a time of unparalleled musical diversity and creativity, buoyed by consumers who saved their allowances and paychecks to buy CDs and ...
Janet Jackson earned six number-one songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1990s. Whitney Houston's cover of "I Will Always Love You" spent 14 weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, which at the time was a record. [4] [5] Lisa Loeb became the first artist to score a #1 hit before signing to any record label, with "Stay (I Missed You)".
Poison frontman Bret Michaels is a prime ambassador for the era of '80s hair metail in "Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored Story of '80s Hair Metal," which takes its name from a Poison song ...
The Darkness's Permission to Land (2003), described as an "eerily realistic simulation of '80s metal and '70s glam", [79] topped the UK charts, going quintuple platinum. One Way Ticket to Hell... and Back (2005) reached number 11. The band broke up in 2006, but reunited in 2011, releasing the album Hot Cakes the following year.